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Apple has made macOS 27.2 Golden Gate available to public beta testers, following the second developer beta release a day earlier. The build number, 26B5091g, matches that of developer beta 2, and adds Siri AI support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish alongside English.
Jotform founder Aytekin Tank describes building the online form-builder outside Silicon Valley's typical playbook, launching the product free for its first two years before introducing pricing. He says he avoided venture capital, skipped relocating to Silicon Valley, and built the company around long-term thinking and teamwork rather than rapid VC-fueled growth.
Apple CarPlay users can rearrange app icons via their iPhone's Settings > General > CarPlay menu rather than the car display itself, and iOS 26 adds widgets for weather, calendar and clock with a Smart Rotate feature that swaps them automatically. Users can also adjust brightness with Automatic light/dark mode and customize wallpaper and icon colors through CarPlay's own Settings menu.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple has spent months investigating a screenless wearable, testing prototypes with a fabric band and sensor module built by the team behind the Vision Pro headset. The company has not decided whether to actually launch the product, though executives Tim Cook and Eddy Cue are said to be interested. Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate introduces an appearance slider that lets users control how clear or opaque the Liquid Glass design looks across the system, replacing the previous two-option toggle. The slider affects elements like the Dock, desktop widgets, and Now Playing bars in apps such as Apple Music and Podcasts, defaulting to a medium setting with a live preview during adjustment.
Riot Games has postponed the launch of team voice chat for League of Legends, which had been announced for NA/OCE regions in the upcoming 26.20 patch. The League of Legends Dev Team said on social media that the feature was pushed back to meet quality standards, but did not give a new release date or specify the reason for the delay.
A banking industry group representing major U.S. banks released a report expressing concern about agentic commerce, where AI agents make purchases on behalf of consumers. The report warns that this emerging shopping method could lead to increased scams, fraud, and payment disputes.
Anti-aliasing is the graphics setting that smooths jagged, stair-stepped edges created when curved or diagonal lines are drawn on square pixel grids. Modern games offer multiple approaches, including supersampling methods like MSAA, post-process filters like FXAA and SMAA, and temporal techniques like TAA and DLAA that reuse data from previous frames.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is widely testing a home hub smart display powered by Siri AI, which could debut as early as next month. The device reportedly uses Face ID for user recognition and will come in both stand-mounted and wall-mounted versions, with its own home screen, widgets and StandBy-like clock faces.
In Ulanqab, a farming region in Inner Mongolia known as China's 'potato capital', large-scale data centre construction is underway alongside agricultural land. Workers described the project as proceeding in multiple phases, with one phase completed roughly every year and more planned. These facilities are intended to provide the computing power behind China's AI ambitions.
A survey by academic mentoring platform Nova Learning found that the share of middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their top academic interest dropped from 42.3% in 2025 to 27.9% in 2026, while Engineering's share nearly doubled, rising from 11.9% to 23%, led largely by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Separately, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported an 8.1% drop in undergraduate Computer and Information Science enrollment at four-year institutions, to about 606,000 students, even as Engineering enrollment grew.
BBC correspondent Laura Bicker visited data centre sites in Inner Mongolia, part of a wave of construction underpinning China's AI ambitions. Her report contrasts public attitudes toward data centre development in China with those in the US, coming just before a planned meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in Washington.