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Framework has reduced pricing on 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory modules for its Laptop 13 Pro after securing a limited supply of Micron chips at a lower cost. The company is applying the price cut retroactively to orders that already shipped as well as to pending pre-orders through Batch 10, following a price hike it made back in July.
Tailwind Labs, creator of the widely used Tailwind CSS framework, announced it is joining Shopify. The framework, installed over 110 million times weekly and used by companies like OpenAI, X, Cloudflare and Reddit, will now be developed within Shopify's product ecosystem rather than as a standalone business.
Framework has secured a limited supply of Micron 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory modules at a lower cost than its recent price increase, and is passing the savings to customers. The company is refunding the price difference to buyers who already received laptops at the higher rate and adjusting pricing for pending preorders through Batch 10, with an option to upgrade RAM configurations at the reduced cost. DIY Edition owners can also request a switch to the new pricing.
Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, announced that as of 16 November the Open Science Framework will no longer accept new uploads of code, data or supplementary materials, though existing public files will remain online. Private files must be deleted or made public by users, or they will automatically become public after the deadline. Preregistration services and the platform's 14 preprint servers will continue operating unaffected.
OpenAI disclosed that its newly deployed GPT-6 Astra model is the first widely released system to hit the 'Critical' threshold in the company's Preparedness Framework for cybersecurity, meaning it can autonomously find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems. In testing, Astra reportedly uncovered two previously unknown real-world vulnerabilities, which OpenAI says it is now disclosing to the affected software maintainers. The company added new safeguards including stronger jailbreak resistance and monitoring, and says Astra shows fewer safety violations than its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol.
After moving his daily workflow from a MacBook to a Framework 16 running CachyOS Linux, a developer found no adequate replacement for Apple Keynote's Magic Move feature when animating code snippets in presentations. He describes building his own tool from first principles to handle smooth, token-aware transitions between code blocks, something Keynote fumbles because it treats code as plain glyphs rather than structured syntax.
A review of recent physics literature traces how AI tools like Melvin, Tachikoma and PyTheus have moved from proposing quantum optics setups on paper to producing configurations that experimentalists later built and confirmed in the lab. These systems use approaches ranging from genetic algorithms to diffusion models and neural network surrogates to search vast spaces of possible experimental arrangements, particularly in quantum information and photonics.
OpenAI announced that its forthcoming Astra AI model is the first to cross the company's 'Critical' cybersecurity capability threshold, meaning it can discover unknown vulnerabilities and exploit them autonomously without human step-by-step direction. The company says Astra will still launch soon, but access to its most sensitive cybersecurity abilities will be restricted, with further safety details to come in a system card at release.
The company behind the Astra model says new testing shows it has crossed a 'Critical' cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework, meaning it could independently discover unknown vulnerabilities and craft exploits against well-defended systems without step-by-step human guidance. This is the first model the company has classified at that severity level, prompting delays to strengthen safeguards before release.
Vermell is a newly released C++ web framework built on Linux's native epoll and pthreads APIs, requiring no runtime, garbage collector, or external dependencies beyond base OS calls. Developers build apps by including one header and linking one static library, compiling with a single g++ command, and the framework runs on architectures from x86_64 to ARM and Raspberry Pi.
A group of programmers who previously built the DK64 Randomizer have released DK64: ReKONGpiled, a project that recompiles Donkey Kong 64's original N64 machine code into C using the N64: Recompiled framework and RT64 rendering. Users must supply their own ROM, after which the game runs natively on Windows, Linux, and Mac without emulation overhead, gaining ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and faster load times.
A new open-source project called vphone-cli lets developers create and run a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Sequoia, using Apple's Virtualization.framework alongside infrastructure derived from Apple's Private Cloud Compute research VM setup. The tool automates the full pipeline of downloading IPSW firmware, patching the boot chain, restoring via DFU mode, installing a custom firmware variant, and launching the resulting virtual device, with commands also available to manage, clone, export, and import VM instances.