iPhone Duo (Apple)
Apple's folding iPhone, the Duo, supports Apple Pencil and Touch ID.
No SIM slot and eSIM-only design draw sharp criticism from international users.
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Apple's folding iPhone, the Duo, supports Apple Pencil and Touch ID.
No SIM slot and eSIM-only design draw sharp criticism from international users.
A satirical site shows Claude repeatedly failing to change a single button to blue without making other unwanted changes.
Commenters split on whether the satire is accurate, with many affirming the frustration and others saying they've never seen such behavior.
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify to secure long-term maintenance for the CSS framework.
Two camps: those fearing maintenance-mode stagnation and those citing Bootstrap as evidence Shopify can sustain development.
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, a 552B-parameter MoE model with native vision support.
Mixed reactions: larger model size hinders local use, but efficiency and active parameter reductions are praised.
Flock Safety's mass surveillance network faces growing backlash and bipartisan opposition.
Thread splits between those citing global precedents (UK, China) and those warning about automated remote access enabling abuse.
A WebGL simulator lets you experience special relativity with light speed set to 5 km/h.
Multiple commenters linked to older projects like "A Slower Speed of Light" and "Velocity Raptor" for comparison.
Apple announced AirPods 5 with open-ear active noise cancellation and volume swipe controls.
Volume swipe controls on AirPods 5 draw mockery as a non-feature already common on cheaper competitors.
Looped transformers reuse weights to increase effective depth without adding new parameters.
Looped transformers are just weight reuse, not a new threat to reasoning monitoring.
Desert Ant Labs releases 18 small, fast, specialized AI models that run entirely on-device.
Dominant take: models are optimized ports of open-source work, not novel, but usefully fast.
No Man's Sky Update 7.0 introduces space station management, alliances, and orbital bases.
Debate over NMS's depth persists: some see a generous live service, others a shallow tech demo.
A developer's Google Ads account was suspended for "malicious software" despite thorough evidence of no malware.
Commenters share outrage over Google's opaque enforcement and compare experiences with other unresponsive companies.
Self-driving tech could prevent 580,000 deaths annually, per growing evidence.
Split between ADAS-as-sufficient and warnings that overtrust in semi-autonomy is more dangerous than full autonomy.
DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash surpasses V4 Pro in all key metrics, launching September 10, 2026.
Broad enthusiasm for DeepSeek's Flash model offerings, with praise for cost and capability.
Automattic board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg onto paid leave, appointing CFO interim CEO.
Commenters see Mullenweg's leave as a de facto firing, citing his unstable behavior and board coup.
iPhone 18 Pro debuts variable aperture camera and A20 Pro chip.
Dominant sentiment: incremental update; many still want an iPhone mini.
Nine streaming subscriptions cost $702 more per year now than in 2021.
Author details methodology; real-terms increase is 26% after inflation.
User reports OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting after they turned it off.
Split between deliberate user-hostile design and genuine incompetence, with reports of the setting re-enabling.
Apple announces iPhone Duo, a foldable device with a new form factor.
Criticism of the name "Duo" and comparisons to a foldable iPad mini.
Copyright law does more harm than good and should be abolished.
Split between those protecting corporate monopolies and those arguing copyright stifles innovation and equality.
Anthropic builds predictive surveillance to monitor activists, contradicting its responsible AI image.
Top commenters see Anthropic's surveillance as predictable, noting parallels to Palantir and government contracts.