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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a proposal to bar children under 13 from using social media across all 27 EU member states. The plan also calls for supervised 'mini accounts' with restricted features for teens aged 13-15, and mandates 'safe design' standards for platforms serving 15-to-18-year-olds.
Amazon is currently selling a two-pack of Ring's Indoor Cam 2K for $59.98, a 50% discount that saves buyers $60 off the regular price. Each camera includes two-way talk, night vision, and USB-C power, letting shoppers add indoor monitoring to two rooms at once.
A developer's essay critiques how services report reliability using uptime percentages like 99.72% or 98.98%, arguing these numbers look deceptively similar to non-experts even though they represent vastly different amounts of actual downtime. The author references Jason Gorman's observation that reliability gains become exponentially harder near 100%, comparing uptime metrics to earthquake magnitude scales where small numeric differences hide huge real-world impact. The proposed fix: status pages should show actual downtime duration (e.g., '12 hours affected in the last 30 days') alongside or instead of raw percentages.
Apple Watch Series 12 keeps the same 42mm and 46mm display sizes as Series 10 and 11, but its case width has grown by about 1mm, which Apple did not mention at launch. That extra case size without a corresponding display increase means the new watch has noticeably thicker bezels than its predecessors.
Amazon has launched early pre-order discounts across the newly announced Apple lineup, including AirPods 5 with ANC dropping to $125 and AirPods Pro 3 at $199. Multiple Apple Watch Series 12 configurations and the black Apple Watch Ultra 4 with a Translucent band are also seeing modest price cuts ahead of this week's deliveries. Separately, B&H is offering between $320 and $450 off select M5 and M5 Pro MacBook Pro configurations, while Amazon has $150 off the M5 MacBook Air and various Anker charging accessories on sale.
An analysis explains why dogs frequently appear in Renaissance religious paintings commissioned by Dominican monasteries, tracing the imagery to a medieval legend about St Dominic's mother and a symbolic Latin wordplay linking the order's name to dogs of the Lord. The piece argues this canine imagery was not controversial or heretical but a widely understood visual tradition tied to the order's founding myth.
Autonomous ride-hailing company May Mobility is merging with special purpose acquisition company ACP Holdings Acquisition Corp., a deal that could raise over $300 million and value the combined company at $1.4 billion. May Mobility says it will become the first U.S. public company focused solely on autonomous ride-hailing, distinguishing itself from broader autonomy players like Tesla, Waymo and Aurora.
A new analysis argues that long-standing estimates of Australia's Indigenous population before European contact were far too low. Researchers say the actual pre-colonial population was likely much larger than previously assumed, based on updated modeling and evidence.
Neurotech startup Paradromics reported that a 68-year-old woman with severe speech loss used its Connexus brain-computer interface to hold real-time conversations, including phone calls with her grandchildren. Surgeons implanted the 400-plus-electrode device at University of Michigan Health in June as the first case in a clinical trial, with the system wirelessly converting brain activity into a computer-generated voice.
Amazon is currently discounting the W-King D10 Bluetooth speaker by 29%, bringing its price down to $85. The speaker is marketed for outdoor use, including parties, camping trips, and backyard gatherings.
A developer released an experimental utility called NvpwrControl on GitHub that lets owners of NVIDIA RTX 50-series gaming laptops manually raise their GPU's power limit beyond factory settings. According to VideoCardz, the tool can push the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU's ceiling up to 225W, roughly 40W above its stock maximum with Dynamic Boost.
A study slated for publication in Physical Review D proposes that neutrinos switching between types inside a collapsing star's core could help resolve long-standing mismatches between supernova models and observations. Current simulations of core-collapse supernovae largely ignore this flavor-swapping behavior, even though neutrinos play a central role in triggering the explosion. The researchers suggest accounting for these identity changes could bring predicted supernova rates and outcomes closer to what astronomers actually observe.