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Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement that clears the way for its takeover of Warner Bros, ending a prolonged period of negotiation and legal wrangling. The agreement resolves outstanding disputes between the two parties and allows the merger process to move forward.
Ifremer, France's state ocean agency, confirmed its two Deep-6000 prototype floats completed five dives reaching 6,000 meters between January and February this year, collecting rare data from the ocean's abyssal zone. This makes France the third nation, after China and the US, to build Argo floats able to reach such depths, and Ifremer plans to add 30 more deep-diving units to the global Argo fleet of 4,000 floats by 2028.
Meta has published an architectural overview of Delta, an internal object storage service designed to hold build and distribution artifacts and support disaster recovery bootstrap operations. Delta exposes just four operations—put, get, delete, and list—and prioritizes reliability and horizontal scalability over latency or storage efficiency.
An engineer with experience building low-cost running robots at a biomimetic robotics lab conducted mechanical teardowns and performance characterizations of several cheap HobbyKing brushless motors, aiming to assess whether they could serve as precise, torque-controlled actuators. The work notes that existing motor controllers—whether expensive industrial servo drives or basic hobby-grade RC controllers—are poorly suited to these motors' low-resistance, high-current characteristics, especially for the demands of dynamic running.
GM introduced a new picture-in-picture feature letting CarPlay and Android Auto run alongside its native infotainment system in the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks. This sparked reports that GM was reversing its 2023 decision to drop phone projection from its EVs, but a GM spokesperson confirmed to journalist Joanna Stern that the update applies only to gas-powered light-duty pickups, which never lost CarPlay support in the first place.
Git 2.56 ships with over 700 non-merge commits, introducing an experimental 'git history drop' subcommand that removes a specific commit and replays subsequent history, though it fails on repositories containing merge commits. The release also expands 'git refs' with create, delete, update, and rename subcommands, and adds several smaller usability improvements like pull suggestions in 'git status' and a '--delete-merged' flag for 'git branch'.
Apple has stopped authorizing installs of iOS 26.6.2, meaning iPhone users who already updated to iOS 27 can no longer officially revert to iOS 26. The move closes off the last signed pathway back to iOS 26, even though Apple released iOS 26.7 last week without offering a restore image for iPhones.
A new report highlights that Google's SynthID and comparable systems from OpenAI and other tech firms embed invisible signals into images, audio, text and video that go beyond simple authenticity marks. These 'spymarks' can carry encoded database identifiers—potentially linkable to a user's name, IP address, birthdate or political affiliation—rather than just flagging content as AI-generated. Research on SynthID-Image shows a 512x512 image can carry a 136-bit payload, enough for a 64-bit unique identifier plus error correction.
Acer CEO Jason Chen told DigiTimes that RAM-driven PC price increases could start reversing by the end of 2027, a far shorter timeline than rival memory executives have forecast. He argues that supply of most RAM and SSD types has already caught up with demand, with real shortages now confined to high-end components like top-tier DDR5 modules and certain CPUs.
A social media recruiter posted about Gen Z job applicants showing up to interviews holding iced lattes, sparking a wave of online reactions. The post divided commenters between those who saw it as a sign of unprofessionalism and others who defended it as harmless personal habit unrelated to job performance.
Google offers ChromeOS Flex, a free operating system that can replace Windows on older machines meeting modest specs: an Intel or AMD CPU, 4GB RAM and 16GB storage, though chips from 2012 or earlier aren't supported. Installation involves using Chrome's Chromebook Recovery Utility to create bootable media on an 8GB-plus USB drive, then booting the target PC into its boot menu to install or trial the OS.
In an essay, Montana State University professor and consultant Carson Gross describes a shift he has observed in client organizations adopting agentic coding: Markdown documents are increasingly the source of truth for systems, with LLM-generated code treated as a derived, low-level artifact. He cites Hartley Brody's earlier essay 'Markdown is the new source code' to support the observation, and argues that Markdown specs should be checked into /src alongside the code and tests they generate, rather than living only in transient prompt sessions.