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Disney Plus revised its subscriber agreement in Europe, sparking confusion that ads would now appear across all its plans globally. In reality, ad-free Standard and Premium subscribers in Europe and the US see no change to their viewing experience under the updated terms.
In an interview with Clique TV, Apple's John Ternus reflected on being asked by Tim Cook to take on the CEO role, describing the moment as unexpected and humbling. He also spoke about lessons learned from Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, emphasizing a focus on future innovation, and shared enthusiasm about generative AI's potential to enable products once thought to be science fiction.
California and other states that had sued to block Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery reached a settlement allowing the deal to proceed, according to multiple reports. The agreement reportedly relies on behavioral commitments from the companies rather than blocking the merger outright, and comes after four states that initially resisted California's proposed terms dropped their objections over the weekend.
A developer testing an AI model at maximum effort settings found that most requests produced little or no chain-of-thought reasoning tokens. Even when extended reasoning occurred, it fell well short of the levels seen in the model's published benchmark results.
CISA has added three Linux kernel security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that attackers are actively exploiting them in the wild. The bugs include CVE-2025-39964, a 14-year-old race condition in the AF_ALG crypto socket interface; CVE-2026-53266, an out-of-bounds write in ebtables SNAT; and CVE-2025-39682, a flaw in the kernel's TLS receive path. Federal agencies were ordered to patch these by end of day, though CISA has not disclosed details on the attackers or specific incidents.
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing it of falsely advertising an AI-upgraded Siri that failed to arrive as promoted. Owners of the iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 models bought between June 10, 2024, and March 29, 2025, can file a claim for a payout ranging from $25 to $95. Apple denies wrongdoing but is settling to close out the case.
This 2019 explainer breaks down how traffic signals manage competing streams of cars, bikes and pedestrians at urban intersections, describing them as the key bottleneck limiting a roadway's overall capacity. It draws an analogy between city road networks and human anatomy, showing how arterial roads rely on at-grade, signal-controlled intersections rather than ramps or overpasses to regulate right-of-way.
CardPointers has released version 8, adding Siri AI integration with 36 new App Intents, Visual Intelligence for identifying which card to use at checkout, and automatic nightly syncing of offers across Amex, Chase, Citi, Bank of America, US Bank, and Wells Fargo accounts. The update also introduces eight extra-large widgets, a savings-tracking dashboard, AI-generated custom offers, and a new Mac menu bar app.
Apple's revamped Siri AI, launching with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, is only accessible via a waitlist and requires devices from the iPhone 15 Pro series or later, or iPads with M1 chips or the seventh-generation iPad mini. The feature is currently unavailable to users with Apple Accounts registered in China or the European Union, and the most advanced capabilities like Expressive Voices are limited to iPhone 17 Pro models and newer.
Data Center Watch reports that local resistance blocked or delayed $68 billion worth of data center construction between April and June 2026, driven by concerns over water use, electricity demand, land, and noise. Despite this pushback, hyperscalers have poured over $1 trillion into data infrastructure since 2023, with $745 billion more expected this year alone, and total data center investment is still projected to reach $32 trillion by 2050.
xAI released Grok 4.7, a new model built on a larger base and trained with a longer reinforcement learning run focused on lengthy, difficult tasks. The model improves self-verification and long-context handling, and is natively tuned for the Grok Bot harness to boost conversational and knowledge-work performance. It ships at the same pricing and speed as Grok 4.6.
A hobbyist has restored a PDP-11/83 system built around a Mentec M11 single-board CPU, two interconnected Q22 bus chassis, and a mix of DEC and Emulex peripheral controllers. The machine runs 2.11BSD Unix and is actively serving a live status page showing its own memory, disk, and system metrics in real time. Classic peripherals including magnetic tape drives and serial terminals remain part of the working setup.