A new Resident Evil movie directed by Zach Cregger reportedly breaks from the franchise's Milla Jovovich-era action focus by recreating the dread and resource-scarcity feel of the original survival horror games. The story follows Bryan, a medical courier drawn into Raccoon City while grappling with impending fatherhood, and uses over-the-shoulder camera work reminiscent of classic Resident Evil gameplay. Cregger, known for Barbarian and Weapons, brings both horror filmmaking chops and genuine fandom to the adaptation.
Apple's iOS 27 update introduces more than 20 new Apple Intelligence capabilities, with the centerpiece being a ground-up rebuild of Siri powered by large language models. The revamped assistant adds broad world knowledge, awareness of personal context across apps like Messages and Calendar, on-screen understanding, task execution within apps, a dedicated Siri app with iCloud-synced conversation history, AI-assisted writing tools, upgraded Visual Intelligence, and customizable expressive voices on supported hardware.
Cloudflare engineers found that its internal load-balancing service, Pingora Backend Router, was consuming far more memory than necessary in its pingora-ketama consistent-hashing library. By reworking the underlying algorithm with better math and Rust code, the team eliminated the excess memory usage across its global fleet.
Diogo Almeida, a former OpenAI researcher who helped invent RLHF and build ChatGPT, has released a new transformer-based model called Jev through his startup TypeSafe AI. Unlike large language models, Jev doesn't generate text—it produces calibrated probability outputs, making it faster, cheaper and immune to hallucination. Developers have shown strong demand, with the company briefly unable to keep up with API traffic.
Apple has released a simulator for the rumored iPhone Duo device as part of its Xcode 27.1 beta rollout, giving developers early access to test apps against the new form factor. The release signals Apple is preparing its developer ecosystem ahead of an eventual hardware launch.
Disney has hired Karandeep Anand, who recently led Character.AI, to serve as the company's first chief technology officer, reporting directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Anand will oversee enterprise technology and Disney's data and AI platforms, and is bringing several former Character.AI engineers with him. Disney is also promoting Adam Smith to a new Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer role for Disney Entertainment.
Athom's Homey hub now lets users update Matter, Z-Wave, and Zigbee smart home devices directly from its app, without opening separate manufacturer apps. For Matter devices specifically, Homey pulls firmware information straight from the Connectivity Standards Alliance's Distributed Compliance Ledger, bypassing the need for manufacturers to build update support into their own apps. Z-Wave and Zigbee updates depend on developer support, with an initial vendor list including IKEA, Aeotec, INNR, and others.
A leadership contributor for Entrepreneur argues that emotional resilience isn't an innate trait but a skill senior leaders can deliberately build. The piece describes resilience as the capacity to face difficult realities, stay grounded and keep making sound decisions under pressure, rather than suppressing emotion or projecting false confidence.
A technical resource describes methods for improving large-scale data replication by using parallel read operations and optimized write strategies. The material is available as a downloadable guide after users register for the hosting platform's content hub.
The FCC has granted Paramount a waiver of its 25% foreign-ownership limit for broadcast licensees, allowing sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE to collectively hold up to 49.5% equity in the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery entity. The commission says the funds will hold non-voting stakes, so they won't exercise formal control over the 28 broadcast stations involved. The underlying petition had actually requested approval for up to 100% foreign ownership.
Researchers observed small shrimp-like amphipods clinging to and traveling on giant sea spiders in deep ocean habitats. Scientists believe the crustaceans may be using the larger spiders for transportation and possibly to find mating partners.
Security researchers warn that attackers can gain lasting access to SaaS and cloud accounts simply by tricking a logged-in user into approving a malicious OAuth application, sidestepping passwords, malware, and multifactor authentication entirely. Once granted, these app permissions can let attackers read email, browse files, pull source code, or touch CI/CD systems through legitimate API access until the tokens or grants are revoked.
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