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Aura’s new Ink frame uses color e-ink technology to produce a digital photo display that genuinely looks like a printed photograph, because people have mistaken it for one. The company’s co-founder and CTO Eric Jensen told TechCrunch that users have hung the frame on their walls and had visitors ask how they “printed that picture […]

The cryptographic keys that secure the boot sequence on millions of Windows and Linux computers will begin expiring on June 24, creating a looming deadline for system administrators and individual users who rely on UEFI Secure Boot to prevent rootkits and boot-level malware. The expiring keys are part of the platform binary database maintained by […]

Google’s global measurement of IPv6 adoption crossed 50% for the first time on April 23, 2026, marking a symbolic threshold for a protocol that was standardized in 1998 and has taken nearly three decades to reach parity with its predecessor. The milestone, published on the APNIC Blog, represents Google’s own measurement of IPv6 capability across […]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, downloaded over 6 billion times, is building a startup that could do for physical devices what his video player did for multimedia. His company, Kyber, is developing a low-latency SDK for controlling remote machines in real time, from drones and robots to telecom infrastructure. Kyber has […]

Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools in elementary schools from the start of the next academic year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on June 19, as concern grows across Europe that screen-based learning has failed to deliver on its educational promises. Under the new rules, pupils from first […]

India’s week-long block of Telegram over exam fraud concerns triggered the country’s biggest single-day VPN download surge since at least 2025, as tens of millions of users scrambled for alternative messaging apps and circumvention tools. The Delhi High Court upheld the temporary restriction on June 18, accepting the government’s argument that blocking the platform was […]

When the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its Fable and Mythos AI models on June 12, the company complied within roughly 90 minutes. The trigger, US officials believed that SK Telecom, a South Korean partner with suspected ties to China, could funnel the models to Beijing, set off an escalation that has […]

Apple’s iOS 27, unveiled at WWDC and now available in developer beta, brings a long list of refinements across Maps, Wallet, Find My, and Apple Music, less flashy than the new Siri AI overhaul, but collectively the most substantial point-release update in years. Apple Maps gains improved Flyover 3D views with more detailed visuals and […]

A Miami-based startup called Subquadratic claims to have solved the most fundamental efficiency problem holding back large language models: the quadratic scaling of attention. Its model, SubQ, uses dynamic sparse attention to process up to 12 million tokens at roughly 2% of the cost of a comparable dense-attention model, a claim that has drawn both […]

John M. Jumper, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner who led the AlphaFold project at Google DeepMind, announced his departure from the company to join rival AI lab Anthropic. The move, confirmed on June 19, marks one of the highest-profile talent transfers in the escalating competition among frontier AI labs. Jumper announced the news […]