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At IFA Berlin 2026, Lexar showed its new Muse SSD, a drive just 3.8mm thick at its thickest point that tapers to 1mm at the edges. It comes in 512GB and 1TB capacities, offers up to 1,050 MB/s read and 1,000 MB/s write speeds, and uses a proprietary PogoPin connection with a magnetic SnapLink cable instead of USB-C. Lexar says it supports direct external ProRes 4K recording at up to 120 fps on compatible iPhones.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro shares nearly identical dimensions, weight and 6.3-inch OLED displays with last year's 17 Pro, but adds a variable aperture camera for exposure control, a slightly smaller Dynamic Island supporting three Live Activities, and a redesigned vapor cooling chamber. It costs roughly $100 more than the 17 Pro and drops the orange color option available on the prior model.
DoorDash has settled with New York City after an investigation found delivery workers were underpaid or paid late. Under the agreement, more than 260,000 workers will receive over $115 million, part of a broader $131.5 million settlement with the city.
A review discusses Florence Hazrat's book on the history of punctuation, tracing marks like the period, question mark, exclamation point and semicolon to specific historical origins, including Aristophanes of Byzantium and eighth-century Irish monks who invented word spacing. Hazrat argues no new punctuation marks have been added since 1600, aside from emojis.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has postponed work on a wearable AI pendant that would have included a camera and microphone to feed visual and audio data to Siri. The device was designed to be worn as a necklace or clipped to clothing, serving as an always-on companion to the iPhone. Apple is instead prioritizing AI features on Apple Watch, with AirPods featuring cameras and smart glasses reportedly planned for 2027.
A software engineer describes a two-day hackathon where a team of engineers and recruiters used the no-code AI platform Lovable to build 'HoneyCrew,' a referral-tracking tool with Slack integration and scraping features. After rapid progress on day one, the project collapsed into bugs and instability on day two, leaving the team scrambling before the final demo.
A trailer for the upcoming October film 'Wicker' has been released, featuring Alexander Skarsgård in a creature role involving a basket-like figure. The reveal generated significant online buzz over the summer months.
A security industry blog post traces SAML's origins as a 2002 OASIS committee standard built on XML, arguing it powered the early single sign-on industry but has since become overly complex and fragile. The piece, citing security researcher Thomas Ptacek, contends SAML's reliance on XML signature validation makes real-world implementations difficult to secure, and calls for organizations to move to newer alternatives like OpenID Connect (OIDC).
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, follow-ups to its 5.6 models and companions to the recently released GPT-6 Astra, aimed at giving businesses and developers Astra-level capability at lower cost with higher usage limits. Anthropic simultaneously released Claude Opus 5.5, which it says matches Fable 5.1's performance while cutting costs nearly 40% compared to Opus 5, and calls its most aligned model yet.
A new report compiles 20 different ways business leaders are measuring returns on AI investments, moving past simple adoption and experimentation metrics. It emphasizes that organizations need clearly defined outcomes and measurement plans before deploying AI to avoid wasted effort without real results.
A U.S. Bank survey finds Gen Z respondents report starting intentional wealth-building activities—like investing, retirement contributions or saving for long-term goals—at an average age of 19, compared with 25 for millennials, 29 for Gen X and 32 for Boomers. Separately, Northwestern Mutual's 2026 Progress & Planning Study found sizable shares of Gen Z have delayed milestones such as having children (24%), buying a home (31%) and marriage (20%) due to financial constraints. The U.S. Bank survey also found Gen Z and millennials more likely than older generations to view the stock market as a realistic wealth path and to be open to newer assets like cryptocurrency.
Hacking group ShinyHunters says it breached FBI systems and stole personal data on thousands of agents and job applicants, including names, home addresses and phone numbers. 404 Media reported the group first breached an Oracle PeopleSoft HR server before pivoting into an Amazon-hosted government cloud, and the FBI's job application portals appeared defaced and offline. ShinyHunters says the hack is not financially motivated and is demanding the FBI remove a report containing what it calls false allegations about the group.