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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces new features for the Home app, including AI-generated descriptions of HomeKit Secure Video camera clips and smarter grouping of notifications  —  Apple today announced new Apple Intelligence features for the Home app, including AI-generated descriptions of HomeKit Secure Video camera clips …

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: watchOS 27 Drops Support for Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 1, SE 2, and Older  —  Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra (first generation), or Apple Watch SE (second generation), effectively drawing a line at devices equipped with the S9 or S10 chip.

Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its longstanding Siri assistant, which like most other announcements had a hefty helping of AI.

"It is actually challenging how you measure [Mach] from space."

New features coming this fall alongside two-tiered, Google-powered AI model overhaul.

The deals come as Nvidia expands its presence in South Korea, spanning robotics, chip design and AI infrastructure.

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode enhancements aimed at agentic coding workflows  —  Apple today announced a new Foundation Models framework for developers alongside a set of Xcode enhancements aimed at agentic coding workflows.

SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

An extension of the Geneva Conventions could impose restrictions on cyberwarfare under ceasefire conditions and close a major loophole in international conflict.

NotebookLM is getting a big upgrade, but it's only for AI Ultra and enterprise accounts right now.

The Trump administration released the updated version of the list four months ago and then quickly pulled it without explaining why

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Polystyrene can be upcycled into carbon sponge material.

Apple is adding new AI-powered features to Safari, Shortcuts, and Password apps.

Shortcuts gets an AI upgrade, letting you describe the workflow you want in a prompt.

Apple's AI image generator is getting a makeover that could make it more competitive.

73 packages run self-replicating stealer as soon as they're opened by an AI agent.

Pre-training frontier LLMs comes down to throughput. When training spans trillions of tokens across thousands of accelerators, every percentage point of step... Pre-training frontier LLMs comes down to throughput. When training spans trillions of tokens across thousands of accelerators, every percentage point of step time can add up to days of training and substantial compute costs. Numerical precision is one of the highest-leverage knobs available, but low- bit mixed-precision pretraining is hard to get right. To address this… Source

From a stand-alone app to a Google Gemini partnership, here’s everything you need to know from WWDC 2026 about Apple’s upcoming overhaul of Siri.