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DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.

The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.

“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.

iOS 27.2 is coming soon with several new features for iPhone users, including a Messages addition that was previously in the iOS 27 beta but later got pulled: Suggestions. more…

Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912955 Points: 201 # Comments: 76

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.

Apple is rolling out a new version of its Apple Invites app for iPhone today. The update taps into new iOS 27 features, including improved photo sharing and Image Playground capabilities. more…

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912792 Points: 182 # Comments: 36

Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.

You do still have to buy the beans though.

It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?

OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Article URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912444 Points: 185 # Comments: 84

Apple unleashed a collection of next-generation products this month, from the new AirPods 5 and Beats 360 ANC headphones (last day for the launch discount), the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, right through to the latest M6-powered Mac mini and Mac Studio. All of which are accompanied by a ser...

More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform's security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. [...]

Sam Altman onstage at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026. | Photo: Hayden Field / The Verge While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're...

Apple next-generation M6 chip arrived last week in the new Mac mini. But several more products will get M6 upgrades soon. Here’s the rumored release schedule for M6 Macs—plus the M6 iPad Pro. more…