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Google has raised the minimum requirement for Android Auto to Android 11, ending official support for phones that run Android 9 and Android 10, according to an The post Google Raises the Android Auto Minimum to Android 11, Ending Support for Android 9 and Android 10...

Microsoft is testing a new version of the Sticky Keys prompt in Windows 11 that lets users switch off the keyboard shortcut for good from the prompt itself. The post Microsoft Tests a Windows 11 Sticky Keys Prompt That Can Permanently Turn Off the Shift Key Shortcut...

Google has warned Australian lawmakers that the country's proposed Digital Duty of Care legislation could force the company to block users under 18 from Gmail. The post Google Warns Australia's Digital Duty of Care Bill Puts Gmail Access for Under-18s at Risk...

Sony has announced a new PlayStation Portal model for Japan that adds internal storage "with an eye towards future functionality," according to a post on the Pl The post Sony Announces a New PlayStation Portal for Japan With Extra Internal Storage for Future Functionality...

To AirDrop on iPhone, open the photo or file, tap the Share button, tap AirDrop and tap the person or device under People. The post How to AirDrop on iPhone...

Verification layers sort outputs by trust rather than fixing errors. In a benchmark of six reliability layers, voting and self-correction failed to recover accuracy - they only withheld doubtful records. Production systems gain more reliability by replacing generation with deterministic lookups, tracking yield over raw accuracy, and resolving extraction bottlenecks before stacking checks. By Pushpdeep Mishra, Wejdan Bagais...

Google Cloud has made spend caps on Cloud Billing Budgets generally available, pausing new usage of a service in a project once a monthly budget is hit, without deleting resources. GA adds an API, estimated live costs, and automatic monthly resets, but caps cover only the Gemini API, the Agent Platform, Cloud Run, and Cloud Run functions, and overages during enforcement delays are still billed. By Steef-Jan Wiggers...

Effect 4.0, a TypeScript framework for typed errors and structured concurrency, was released on 30 September 2026 with a rewritten fiber runtime. The team reports a bundle size drop from 35.6 kB to 7.1 kB and about 6.4x higher throughput, though these figures are not independently verified. It also adds long-term support through September 2029. By Daniel Curtis...

This week's Java roundup for November 2nd, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of TornadoVM, TornadoInsight, A2A for Java, Gradle and EclipseStore; the November 2026 edition of Open Liberty; the third release candidate of Open J Proxy; the second release candidates of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; and the third beta release of Quarkus 4.0. By Michael Redlich...

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon framing it as a general-purpose physical-reasoning model for robot control, Real2Sim scene construction, multimodal labeling of robot video, and iterative policy improvement, rather than as a single end-effector policy. By Daniel Dominguez...

We gave AI coding agents the same breaking upgrade twice. Labeled 2.0.0, Claude Sonnet 5.5 checked it in all 10 runs. Labeled 1.4.3, it checked in two and often left the app broken. Nearly 1,000 runs show which agents still read your version numbers, and what a patch label talks them out of.

All five agent runs produced a working script, and nothing in the eval score looked wrong. The trajectories told a different story. Every run read a DLL as raw bytes to find plugin names, and three scripts would quietly reroute a CI runner's network traffic. Here are the patterns to look for in your own agents' trajectories, and what to change in your product when you find them.

Your eval might be telling the agent it’s a test before the agent reads a single instruction. Eval tools need a fresh folder for every run, and the easiest way to get one is a temp directory with a random name like /tmp/eval-7f3a2c. The agent sees that path on every turn, in the system prompt...

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MPS now runs on Linux ARM64, and coding agents can do much more for much less. The UI allows grouping nodes by virtual package, several dialogs have their UIs reworked, editor tests allow for node-matching functions to be customized, and much more. DOWNLOAD MPS 2026.2 What’s new Here are the most noteworthy new features: Build...

Hello everyone! Scala plugin 2026.3 is here! This release brings more accurate Scala 3 code analysis, substantially reworked Twirl support for Play Framework developers, and more efficient compiler-based highlighting that reduces redundant background work. You’ll also find improvements to build-tool support, debugging, and everyday editing. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new. Scala 3...

In our practical guide to profiling in Go, we mentioned that some of the Go developers we talked to avoid pprof if they can. For many of them, typical Go services perform well enough without optimizations, so when they do need to profile, it can feel like a “rescue mission” with a tool they are...

October kept the Java world busy, with JDK news, fresh tutorials, Kotlin updates, AI experiments, and plenty more from across the wider ecosystem. We’ve gathered the best of it in one place, so you can skip the scrolling and get straight to the good stuff. To top it all off, Piotr Przybył joins us as...

The Kotlin Multiplatform Contest is back! Students and recent graduates, turn your idea into a cross-platform project with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). The authors of the top three projects will each win a trip to KotlinConf 2027 in Kraków, Poland, with conference tickets, travel, and accommodation covered by the Kotlin Foundation. Authors of all other valid...

Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways in which AI coding tools demand an even higher level of judgment from software engineering teams.

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Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semiconductors, the massive environmental and geopolitical footprint of AI data centers, and how AI models are rapidly shifting the future of chip design.

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CPU-based defaults can leave an I/O-heavy loop processing one record at a time. Raising the limit helps, but each downstream service still needs a concurrency budget it can handle.