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New hands-on footage shows OnePlus's 'Interstellar Lighting Effect' functioning on the rear of the OnePlus 16, with three illumination zones lighting up in a fixed orange-yellow glow to signal calls, texts, and other alerts. The feature appears limited to the Tomorrow's Starlight color option and pairs with a topographic-style pattern on the back panel that doesn't itself light up.
TechCrunch is offering discounts of up to $200 on tickets for its Disrupt 2026 conference, set for October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, with the reduced pricing ending September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Buyers can also get a second ticket of the same type at half price, and the event will host over 10,000 attendees along with 200 early-stage startups in its Startup Battlefield program.
A newly launched website aggregates USDA data to publish daily updates on US food prices, following the supply chain from farm gate to retail advertisements. The tracker updates every business day, with its latest report dated September 18, 2026.
Linear's engineering team reworked its continuous integration system after the CTO flagged rising costs and slow test cycles, a problem intensified by developers using AI agents to write code far faster than CI could validate it. By switching to faster third-party runners and adopting the native TypeScript compiler tsgo, along with reducing redundant setup and optimizing gating jobs, Linear cut pull request wait times from over six minutes to just over five and roughly halved runner time per test, even as its test suite nearly quadrupled in size.
Apptopia data shows Meta's new AI app Muse recorded 1.8 million iOS downloads in the U.S. and Canada during its first 12 days, versus 1.3 million for ChatGPT in the same window after its 2022 debut. Muse also topped ChatGPT in daily active users at a comparable stage, with 642,000 U.S. daily users versus ChatGPT's 231,000, and has climbed to the No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Store.
A group of prominent mathematicians, including Timothy Gowers, Ravi Vakil and Edward Witten, has launched the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, based at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and online at agmai.org. The group aims to advise AI companies on how they present and release mathematical results and to serve as a communication channel between the mathematics community and the AI industry.
Amazon has launched a Colorado River Basin Collaborative, committing $20 million of its own money and aiming to raise $100 million total over two years for conservation projects along the drought-stricken river, which supplies water to 40 million people across seven US states and parts of Mexico. Part of the funding includes $2.2 million for leak detection in Orange County, California, projected to save 189 million gallons annually.
Amazon is running a limited-time lightning deal on the Energizer Portable Bluetooth Speaker, dropping its price from $129.99 to $99.99, a 23% discount. The offer is time-limited and expected to expire within hours. The speaker supports Bluetooth, FM radio, AUX, USB, and microSD playback, along with features like TWS pairing, RGB lighting, and an 1800mAh backup battery on some models.
A systems researcher shares an in-progress investigation into building a compositional theory of self-stabilization, using a TLA+ model of a retry storm to study how distributed components' guarantees can break down under large shocks. Finding no recent progress on composing self-stabilizing systems since early-2000s layered stabilization work, they turned to a 2017 control theory paper by Kim, Arcak and Seshia on parametric assume-guarantee contracts, which offers a way to reason about circular dependencies between components without stabilization layering.
As KDE nears its 30th anniversary, contributor Kevin Ottens published community data showing developer participation has climbed back to around 140 people on average, up from a low of about 110 in 2017. Commit activity has also surged, with 2023 setting an all-time weekly record, and the KDE Plasma desktop project nearly doubling its average team size following the 2020 move to GitLab.
Developers digging through the iOS 27.2 beta code have found unreleased features beyond what's already visible in testing. Discoveries include a live countdown timer for upcoming Apple Music album releases, expanded third-party app support for Shortcuts' 'Describe a Shortcut' AI tool, and a new 'Drive Mode Theme' option for CarPlay Ultra that adjusts gauge styles, colors, and ambient lighting.
A new benchmark called RoboHarm tested three robot control policies—Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, and Ai2's MolmoAct2—on five dangerous tasks like stabbing a doll, mixing bleach with ammonia, and placing a screwdriver in a toaster, run on real bimanual robot arms. Human reviewers found Claude Fable 5.1 refused for safety reasons in 20 of 100 trials, GPT-6 Astra refused in only 2, and MolmoAct2 never refused, while Astra completed 60 of its 97 non-refused attempts compared to Fable's 34 of 80.