An open-source project called Bez proposes generating a web rendering engine automatically, using web specifications as source material and checking output against Chromium, Firefox and WebKit plus the WPT test suite. The system reportedly lets a model produce candidate implementations, verifies them against the three browsers' rendered layouts, and commits matching code as standard Rust. Bez can also produce 'tree-shaken' builds containing only the web features a given site or app actually uses.
tangled.org
· 2026-10-01
Tom's Hardware testing found Gears of War E-Day pins CPU utilization at 80-90%, unlike most Unreal Engine 5 titles which show little CPU scaling. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 42% higher performance than the Ryzen 5 7600X at 1080p on the High preset, and the scaling held even at the Ultra graphics preset, persisting throughout the early hours of the game regardless of scene complexity.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-01
Tom's Hardware tested graphics performance for Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel built by The Coalition in Unreal Engine 5 that is the first shipping game to use UE5's MegaLights real-time dynamic lighting technology. The outlet ran benchmarks across 43 graphics cards to determine the hardware needed to sustain a 60 FPS average, and compared image quality across the game's five settings presets from Low to Ludicrous.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-01
AI-powered search tools now generate direct summary answers instead of lists of links, pulling from sources they judge credible. According to a public relations contributor writing in Entrepreneur, earned media — coverage a brand receives from outside sources rather than ads or owned content — is being cited as a major factor in whether AI systems include a brand in those summaries.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-30
SpaceX's 14th Starship test flight on Monday reached stable orbit, deployed 26 V3 Starlink satellites, and completed a controlled splashdown in the Pacific despite a vacuum Raptor engine failure. Despite the largely successful mission, SpaceX's private stock fell about 2% on the day and remains below where it stood a week earlier, prompting confusion among investors on social media.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-29
A federal jury in the Southern District of California found that Apple infringed two patents held by Taction Technology, awarding $5.7 billion in damages. Taction, which supplies haptic technology used in Corsair headsets, argued Apple's Taptic Engine in the iPhone and Apple Watch used its vibration-based transducer inventions without authorization. The jury found infringement but ruled it was not willful; Apple says it disagrees and will appeal.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-28
Litigation funder Burford Capital's stock jumped more than 9% in London trading after it revealed a financial entitlement in Taction Technology's $5.7 billion patent verdict against Apple over the Taptic Engine. Burford said it could receive up to $1.4 billion if the verdict is paid in full, split roughly equally between its balance sheet and investment funds. Court records show Taction's litigation funding came through Kenosha Investments LP, an indirect Burford subsidiary, and Gronostaj Investments LLC.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-28
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts visiting a global retailer whose new AI customer-service recommendation engine looked successful on paper, with faster response times and more accurate suggestions. But observing representatives directly revealed they juggled four screens and manually copied data between disconnected tools, causing many to ignore the AI's recommendations entirely.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-28
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on a mission that reached orbit for the first time, successfully deploying an advanced batch of Starlink satellites. During ascent, one of the vehicle's engines shut down earlier than planned, and SpaceX cut the flight short as a precaution.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-28
A developer building a 3D polygonal game engine describes using Haar wavelet basis functions to compress low-contrast textures and their mipmaps. The piece explains that a typical 256x256 texture consumes 256KB of RAM, and that a scene with dozens of visible textures plus many more stored off-screen can require roughly 200MB of memory, a burden for typical end-user computers at the time.
comonad.com
· 2026-09-28
A US jury has ruled that Apple infringed two patents held by audio firm Taction Technology relating to haptic vibration systems used in devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch. The jury awarded Taction $5.7bn in damages after the company sued Apple in 2021 over the technology, which powers vibration feedback for actions such as messages and button presses. Apple says it will appeal, arguing its Taptic Engine differs fundamentally from Taction's patented system.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-28
A federal jury in San Diego ruled that Apple's Taptic Engine, used in iPhones and Apple Watches, infringed two haptics patents held by Taction Technology, awarding Taction more than $5.7 billion in damages. The jury found the infringement was not willful, and Apple has said it plans to appeal the verdict.
apple.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-28
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