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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The fight over Flock and other ALPRs

There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to track vehicles and people’s movements throughout the day and across […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob Mico when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last […]

Society · NPR Top Stories

Hit hard by the earthquake in western Colombia, the mayor of Cali gets to work

Search efforts continue though hopes are fading as teams dig for survivors from the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 250 people.

Business · CNBC Technology

Reddit stock jumps on inclusion in S&P 500

Reddit shares jumped on the company's inclusion in the S&P 500.

World · Deutsche Welle

Romania shuts nuclear plant, Hungary dams dry Danube River

Romania has shut down its only nuclear plant in a rare move prompted by the lack of cooling water from the Danube River. Hungary, meanwhile, is racing to dam the Danube, trying to keep its Paks plant online.

World · Al Jazeera

Tate supporters rally for brothers ahead of bail hearing in Miami

Supporters of Andrew and Tristan Tate gathered outside a Miami detention centre ahead of their bail hearing.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

World · Al Jazeera

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill two, including police chief

Israeli drone strikes killed at least 2 people and wounded several others in Gaza on Thursday.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Netflix is closing two game studios

Netflix plans to shut down two of its gaming studios, as reported by Game File and Variety, as it makes a bigger shift toward party games and titles streamed to TVs. One of the studios being shut down is Night School Studio, creators of the Oxenfree series. Netflix bought Night School in 2021, and it […]

World · Deutsche Welle

Kennedy Center board approves Trump name on facade, renovation plan

The move appears designed to circumvent a judge's ruling that the US president's name should be removed, potentially setting the stage for a new legal fight over the Kennedy Center's name and future.

World · Al Jazeera

Photos: Cuba marks Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday

Fidel Castro would have turned 100 on Thursday and his legacy continues to overshadow the island.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Suno Studio 2.0

Browser-based generative DAW Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

sqlite-utils 4.2

Release: sqlite-utils 4.2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature , which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then dropping and replacing the old one. transform() now preserves a much larger array of edge-case schema definitions, including check constraints, unique constraints and even comments describing the columns. There are also new introspection properties for check constraints, and a whole lot of other smaller changes. Includes contributions from Bunlong Heng , ethanhawkes-gif , Rami Abdelrazzaq , nyxst4ck , and ikatyal2110 . (It later turned out 4.2 had a crashing bug , fixed in 4.2.1 .) Tags: releases , sqlite , sqlite-utils

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

This school-friendly laptop from HP is $300 off

With memory prices still high and showing no signs of dropping, we’re always happy to find a good deal on a budget-friendly system with an adequate amount of RAM. Best Buy has the HP OmniBook X Flip discounted by $300, bringing the cost down to $699.99. This model is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra […]

World · Al Jazeera

Are We in the Singularity?

Sam Altman just said AI has entered "the singularity."

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

The AI model that just scored 65% on DeepSWE isn’t the one Google promised.

Google has a new Gemini model, and no, it is not Gemini 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash launched Thursday as The post The AI model that just scored 65% on DeepSWE isn’t the one Google promised. appeared first on The New Stack .

Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloudflare Blog

Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal

Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026.

World · Al Jazeera

Sudan army says RSF advance on key town bordering Ethiopia

Military and government sources say the paramilitary RSF and allies advance into town of Kurmuk in Blue Nile state.

World · Al Jazeera

Passenger train derails, injuring several in southern England

A passenger train derailed near Lewes in East Sussex, England, injuring at least 11 people, and two of them seriously.

AI · The Decoder

Suno Studio 2.0's new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it's a bandmate

With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers. A chat feature creates instruments and plugins via text, while MIDI import and 32-bit export come without limits. That unlimited export clashes with Suno's own recently announced download caps designed to combat AI music spam on streaming platforms. The article Suno Studio 2.0's new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it's a bandmate appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.

Business · CNBC Technology

Apple's Tim Cook joined by Howard Lutnick in opening Houston manufacturing plant

As Tim Cook gets set to step down as Apple CEO, he's offering a glimpse into what he may be doing as chairman.

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Russian plot to kill Ukrainian American thwarted in Warsaw, says Polish PM

Donald Tusk says it is first time ‘someone on the order of Russia’ has sought to attack US citizen in Nato country A Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister has said. Donald Tusk said it was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” had sought to attack a US citizen on the territory of another Nato country. Continue reading...