A solo developer built a game backend called GDT (Game Development Toolkit) that has run every title they've shipped since 2016, including Marooners, Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo, Crash Drive 2 and 3, plus a seventh game built by another studio. The PHP version, roughly 20,000 lines running on Google App Engine with Firestore, supported Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, mobile and web without a player-noticed outage in ten years, and has now been replaced by a C# version on Cloud Run.
President Trump used a UN address to declare that the US government will replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" across official documents. He had previewed the change days earlier on Truth Social, arguing the existing term was inaccurate and inelegant, and floated alternatives like "Superior Intelligence" and "Extreme Intelligence" before settling on "super."
Aurora Innovation is running fully autonomous semi trucks without safety drivers on two of the busiest freight corridors in Texas, I-45 between Houston and Dallas and I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso. The company currently operates 20 driverless trucks and plans to expand to 200 by the end of the year, betting on a pay-per-mile 'driver as a service' model for freight customers.
Newegg is selling the ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming desktop for $1,199.99 after applying the code SSF73826, down from a list price of $1,699.99. The build pairs an Intel Core i7-14700F with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and a Zotac RTX 5060 Solo GPU with 8GB of VRAM, aimed at 1080p gaming.
GoPro's new Mission 1 Pro action camera features an interchangeable lens system (ILS) but lacks electrical contacts, meaning only fully manual lenses with mechanical aperture rings work with it. A reviewer testing the camera with a Laowa 7.5mm lens found that manual focusing is challenging due to the camera's small screen, even with focus peaking enabled. The camera is sold body-only, with no lens bundles currently available from GoPro or retailers.
A developer traced a hard-to-find bug to type punning via pointer casts, which behaves correctly at -O0 but breaks under -O2 optimization. The root cause is that pointer casts violate strict aliasing rules and constitute undefined behavior in C, even though they compile and run correctly on most platforms, and C++ treats type distinctions even more strictly than C.
Ahead of its launch, Xiaomi detailed the dual 200MP camera system on its upcoming Xiaomi 18 Pro and Pro Max, revealing that the primary sensor measures 1/1.28-inch, slightly larger than the ISOCELL HP2 used in Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra. The phones also feature a Leica-backed camera setup wrapped around a secondary rear display, in a design reminiscent of the iPhone 17 Pro's camera island but repurposed for screen functionality.
Scientists used advanced imaging and computational techniques to read the text of an ancient scroll that was carbonized nearly 2,000 years ago during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, without physically opening the fragile artifact. The breakthrough combined technical innovation, scientific experimentation, and collaboration across multiple disciplines to recover writing long assumed unrecoverable.
Analyst Kurnal Insights calculated that at current AI-driven memory prices, the revenue value of DRAM per square millimeter of silicon now surpasses the nominal wafer processing cost of TSMC's advanced N2 and N3 logic nodes. Using an assumed DRAM price of $1.50 per gigabit, the newest 1b DRAM generation works out to about $0.654 per mm², compared to roughly $0.424 per mm² for an N3 wafer.
Google is testing a redesigned search experience in Google Messages that shows preview rows of shared photos, videos, links, and places directly on the search homepage, rather than requiring users to tap into separate filter categories. The beta also adds the ability to search within a specific conversation from the main search page and see every matching text message without switching between chats. These changes were found in Google Messages beta version 20260917 through an APK teardown.
Raspberry Pi confirmed that its firmware locks boards to their factory-installed RAM capacity, preventing users from swapping in higher-capacity chips. Engineer and forum moderator PhilE said the restriction, rolled out in firmware updates since late 2024, exists to stop resellers from installing larger RAM chips of dubious quality and passing boards off as higher-spec devices. He told users attempting DIY RAM upgrades or repairs that the effort is futile because the firmware also checks other device attributes beyond chip size.
After executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI publicly urged caution on AI development this summer, commentators including Steven Vaughan-Nichols and Corey Doctorow suggest the motives aren't purely about safety. They point to mounting financial pressure on companies that haven't proven their massive data-center spending will pay off, plus incentives to slow smaller rivals or cut R&D costs.
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