Google has unveiled AX, a declarative orchestration system designed specifically for agentic AI workloads rather than conventional stateless or batch computing. The project grew out of agentic runtime research from Google DeepMind combined with Google's experience in isolation, resumption, and scheduling at scale, and builds on the existing Agent Substrate framework. AX treats tasks, workspaces, network policies, and models as core primitives so developers can operate large fleets of AI agents without building custom infrastructure.
Windows 11 includes an Xbox mode feature that replaces the desktop with a full-screen, console-like gaming interface, though it isn't enabled by default. Users can turn it on and access it through Settings, keyboard shortcuts like Win + F11, the Game Bar, or the Xbox app, and can exit back to the desktop just as easily.
Satechi has released a Thunderbolt 5 dock called CubeDock, styled to match Apple's newly launched Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips. The dock adds eight ports, an internal M.2 NVMe SSD bay supporting drives up to 8TB, and can deliver up to 140W of charging power to a connected laptop.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 12 congressional co-sponsors introduced federal legislation modeled on an Oregon law to prohibit private equity firms, insurers and management services organizations from owning or controlling medical practices. The bill responds to a sharp increase in corporate ownership of physician practices, which has climbed from 62 percent to over 80 percent of doctors employed by corporate entities in seven years.
A photographer spent three hours at San Francisco's Muni Heritage Weekend 2026 using a line scan camera to photograph vintage streetcars, including the 1912 Muni No. 1, the first publicly owned big-city streetcar in the US, and other historic trams from Melbourne, Milan, and Blackpool. The resulting images, which capture the vehicles in a distinctive scanned format, have been released under a CC-By-SA 4.0 license and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro examined the new variable aperture system, an under-display Face ID infrared camera, and a larger vapor chamber. During disassembly, a tiny aperture blade popped loose, suggesting that any malfunction in the mechanism would likely force a full replacement of the main camera assembly rather than a simple fix.
SpaceXAI has opened public beta access to Grok Bot, a software agent that logs into services like Gmail, LinkedIn and Salesforce to complete tasks such as filling forms, sending emails and posting on social media. Unlike the conversational Grok chatbot or the coding-focused Grok Build, Grok Bot acts as a persistent digital assistant that can run multiple linked bots on a shared cloud account, working autonomously and reporting back or requesting approval when needed.
A widely shared essay contends that open-source software will never be reliably funded because it behaves like the 'dove' strategy in an evolutionary game theory model, always losing ground to proprietary 'hawk' competitors who withhold code for profit. The author, after years of mulling the problem, proposes creating registries that could compel companies benefiting from free software to pay into it, rather than relying on voluntary donations or goodwill.
A software utility lets users replace their browser's default new tab page with a personalized dashboard for organizing bookmarks and frequently visited sites. The tool works across most major browsers, not just Chrome, giving users a consistent launchpad experience regardless of which browser they use.
An open-source project porting Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber from N64 to native PC using static recompilation via N64Recomp has fully converted the game's main code segment of 807 functions into C. The team, which used the DeepSeek v4/v4.1 Flash AI model for much of the work, now moves to building the runtime layer covering rendering, input, and audio.
One Minute Park is an ongoing project by Elliott Cost that collects one-minute, unedited phone videos of parks from contributors around the world, aiming to eventually fill all 1,440 minutes of a day. Submissions are uploaded in .mp4 format to an Are.na channel, with contributors asked to note the date, time, park and location. The project won a Tiny Award for 2024 and has been covered by outlets including The Creative Independent, Swiss Miss and Laughing Squid.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has released a new work examining how governments and tech-driven bureaucracies are increasingly automating public administration, raising questions about accountability. The book, titled around the concept of an 'artificial state,' traces how digital systems have reshaped the mechanics of governance over recent decades.
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