Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Apple this week arguing the company has no evidence to support claims that apps like ICEBlock endangered ICE officers, following Apple's removal of such apps from the App Store. Apple had earlier told Raskin the apps were pulled after a fatal shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, but Raskin disputes DHS and FBI claims linking that shooter to app usage, calling the justification unsupported.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-29
Leakers Digital Chat Station and Ice Universe report that Huawei's Mate 90 Pro Max will have a special edition variant supporting a detachable external camera accessory. Unlike telephoto extender lenses used on rival phones, this add-on reportedly has its own 1-inch sensor with continuous optical zoom from 24mm to 240mm (1x-10x) and an aperture ranging from f/2.0 to f/4.5.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-29
On Tuesday, more than a dozen organizations—including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, SEIU, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council—rallied outside OpenAI's DevDay at San Francisco's Fort Mason. Protesters chanted slogans, carried signs opposing OpenAI's contracts with ICE and criticizing data centers' environmental impact, and some wore cardboard robot costumes.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-29
Tipster Ice Universe claims the Galaxy S27 Ultra will use a 200MP ISOCELL HP6 main sensor based on Samsung's DeepPix pixel architecture, which he says produces warmer colors, better highlight control, and cleaner shadows than the Galaxy S26 Ultra. The same leak suggests Samsung may remove the dedicated 3x telephoto lens, leaving the phone to jump from 1x directly to 5x zoom.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-29
Android devices include a developer options menu, accessible after tapping the Build Number field seven times in Settings > About, that lets users adjust animation speeds. Within this menu, setting the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale to 0.5x makes system animations play twice as fast, a feature that has existed since Android 4.0.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-28
Leaker Steve 'OnLeaks' Hemmerstoffer posted a new render of the Galaxy S27 Ultra's rear camera island, showing a pill-shaped module with a telephoto lens, microphone cutout, auxiliary sensors including laser autofocus, and an LED flash stacked top to bottom. This followed reports from leaker Ice Universe, who examined early Chinese third-party cases that lacked cutouts for some sensors, prompting speculation Samsung had dropped laser autofocus; Ice Universe has since pushed back on OnLeaks' arrangement, saying the flash sits above the camera rather than below.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-28
A federal procurement notice reviewed by ABC News shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement intends to spend up to $2 million on Boston Dynamics' SPOT robots, each priced around $120,000 with an extendable arm. The filing states the robots would provide remote inspection, situational awareness, and hazard assessment capabilities in risky environments. This follows earlier reporting that ICE sought $20 million worth of electric shock gloves.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-27
Leaker Ice Universe claims Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S27 Ultra will adopt a split-screen privacy feature already found on Xiaomi's newly announced 18 Pro series. The feature would dim only one app window in split-screen mode while keeping the other visible, adjusting dynamically as windows are resized.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-24
A developer has published OrgWebAlchemy, an open-source Guile Scheme library that parses Org-mode documents into an abstract syntax tree and renders them as HTML via SXML, using Parsing Expression Grammars instead of regular expressions. The source code is hosted on Codeberg, and the author says it lets Org files be exported to HTML without requiring Emacs, and is already integrated into a project called LucidPlan.
jointhefreeworld.org
· 2026-09-24
Rep. Delia Ramirez plans to introduce the Reimagining Safety Act, which would terminate the border surveillance tower program and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, redistributing functions like CISA, FEMA, TSA and customs to other federal agencies. The bill, developed with groups Just Futures Law and Mijente, would replace DHS with a new Department of Community Safety, though the full text has not yet been released.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-23
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency will be selective about which countries it partners with in lunar exploration, prioritizing only what he called 'good deals.' Speaking at a defense conference near Washington, he framed the race to the Moon's south pole as a contest for limited prime real estate rich in water ice and near-constant sunlight, rather than a purely symbolic contest.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-22
Concrete Ship Constructors has published a listing for a vessel type designated B5-BJ2, referred to as an 'Ice Cream Barge'. No further technical or commercial details were provided in the available material beyond the name and model designation.
thecretefleet.com
· 2026-09-21
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