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New data show first-time homebuyers now make up just 22% of all home purchases, with the median age of buyers rising to 40. The figures underscore growing difficulty for younger Americans trying to enter the housing market, an issue that surfaced prominently in recent midterm election results.
Payments Canada has officially launched the Real-Time Rail (RTR), a new national payment infrastructure enabling instant clearing and settlement of payments around the clock. Financial institutions, credit unions and payment service providers can now use the system to exchange and settle transactions in real time, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with real-time cash-flow visibility and richer payment data.
Security researcher Rasmus Moorats found his 2014 Renault Latitude refused to let him adjust its dashboard clock because the original navigation SD card was missing, triggering a 'No maps detected!' error. Unable to fix it through normal settings, he reverse-engineered the head unit's customized Linux-based TomTom OS on a Samsung chip, extracting firmware, building a QEMU test environment, and finding multiple vulnerabilities before devising a kernel-level exploit to execute his own code.
Harvest, a time-tracking and invoicing tool acquired by Bending Spoons in 2025, has restructured its pricing. A longtime customer reports their monthly cost rose from $13.32 to $133.98 under a new 'enterprise/unlimited' plan, while an alternative 'flex' plan at $12.65 now adds a 2% surcharge on top of standard card processing fees. The customer also says email support has been replaced by an automated LLM response system.
A workplace guidance piece outlines a strategy for employees to ensure managers remember approved paid time off, recommending that requests be repeated across multiple communication channels rather than mentioned once. It suggests submitting PTO requests four to six weeks ahead for typical cases, and up to six months ahead for costly, non-movable events like weddings, while always logging the request in a company time-off system.
An international research collaboration including the Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg has experimentally demonstrated that an electron's position and its behavior over time cannot both be measured with unlimited precision. The researchers describe this as a previously unobserved 'space-time limit' distinct from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which governs position and momentum rather than position and time.
Nintendo has launched a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, ending years of speculation about whether the 1998 N64 classic would be revived. The original game, which introduced mechanics like horseback riding, sword-and-shield combat and enemy lock-on targeting, remains the highest-rated title in Metacritic's history and was once called 'the biggest game of the decade' by IGN.
A Longreads investigation by Ashley Stimpson examines the fate of American time capsules, including the 1976 Bicentennial Wagon Train project that collected thousands of citizen signatures on rededication scrolls intended for burial. The report finds that the overwhelming majority of such capsules across the country—an estimated nine in ten—are ultimately lost, misplaced, or never recovered as planned.
Costco is selling the digital remaster of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for $54.99, a $5 discount off the standard price, available to its members. The deal comes after other retailers had already offered preorder discounts on the Switch 2 exclusive title before its release.
Microsoft has filed a patent, uncovered by Patentlyze, describing an AI system that can listen to a livestream's audio, swap out words based on a viewer's profile data like age or language, and adjust lip movements to hide the edit. The filing also outlines a separate translation feature that dubs livestreams with matching lip sync while preserving the original recording as a reference.
Nintendo has put out a remastered version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, prompting renewed interest from longtime fans and newcomers alike. The Verge's Installer newsletter highlights the remake alongside other recent releases like the Godzilla Minus Zero sequel.
Anthropic published research describing how it designs memory systems for Claude-based agents, drawing an analogy to human memory consolidation during sleep. The approach, built on work from Letta and UC Berkeley researchers on 'sleep-time compute,' has agents reorganize logs and transcripts during idle periods to fix errors, write notes, and build new memory representations for future sessions.