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Apple TV 4K may get Siri AI, thanks to the A19 or A19 Pro chip

Judging by a leaked Apple identifier, the next-generation Apple TV will get a major upgrade with the A19 or A19 Pro system-on-chip.

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Apple could update the Apple TV 4K with the A19 or A19 Pro chip.

In June 2026, tvOS 27 code revealed that the Apple TV 4K was on track to receive Siri AI support. Now, Apple's own code has revealed even more about the hardware that will make this change possible.

According to MacRumors, the model identifier of the upcoming Apple TV 4K suggests the device will feature the A19 or A19 Pro chip. While this change will undoubtedly give the new model 8GB or 12GB of RAM, up from 6GB on the 2022 variant with the A15 Bionic chip, it will also allow for Apple Intelligence.


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iOS 26.6.2, iPadOS 26.6.2 land as iOS 27 gets closer to release

Apple has released updates bringing iOS 26.6.2 and iPadOS 26.6.2 to the public, in what is probably the last before the introduction of the impending iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

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iOS 26 is still the current-gen iPhone operating system, but not for long.

Apple is in its last stages of getting its 27-generation operating systems ready for public consumption. But while it's doing that, the company is also tending to its current-gen operating systems too.

Released on September 8, one day before its iPhone 18 Pro special event, Apple has issued updates for iOS 26.6.2 and iPadOS 26.6.2.


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Seven Apple TV settings can limit tracking without breaking streaming

Apple TV 4K is better behaved and better for privacy than every smart TV, which admittedly is a bar buried under the living room floor. Here's what it tracks and which settings rein it in.

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Security researchers cited in a September 7 LG report tested OLED televisions for several forms of data collection. They found that the sets scanned local networks and used automatic content recognition to identify what appeared on screen.

Yes, we know that smart TVs do this. LG's data and conversation collection is just leagues worse than everybody else's.

Yes. Conversation collection. The televisions also reportedly stored microphone audio while offline, then uploaded it after reconnecting.


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LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby

A Gamers Nexus investigation found that LG smart TVs are almost constantly logging and uploading data about owners and their homes, even while they are offline or in standby mode. "The company's TV sets scan Wi-Fi networks for nearby devices, record audio logs through their microphones, and use audio and video sampling to recognize exactly what you're watching from across the TV inputs," reports The Verge. From the report: Gamers Nexus partnered with fellow YouTubers Level1Techs and independent security researchers for the investigation, which involved testing retail LG OLEDs. Packet captures showed the TVs scanning the local area network for nearby hardware like phones or smartwatches, as well as logging location data and details of nearby Wi-Fi networks, and feeding the information back to LG Ad Solutions. Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored. Earlier this year, LG was found to be silently installing an adware-like app on Windows PCs that ran pop-up ads for other LG apps and even McAfee antivirus.

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where’s your line between “please manage Drupal for me” and “give me access to the code”?

the Webflow Source announcement sent me back into Acquia’s Source CMS product guide.

it explicitly says "customers can’t modify the underlying Drupal code or install contributed modules".

I understand the deal: less maintenance responsibility, fewer opportunities to make a beautifully customized disaster.

buttttt Drupal’s flexibility is also why a lot of people chose it.

where does that tradeoff work for you?

for a straightforward marketing site, I can see the appeal. for a project with specific integration or editorial requirements, I’d want to know where the escape hatches are.

what’s the requirement that would make you say “managed SaaS is fine”... or immediately ask for the keys?

I covered the two Sources on my Headless show, but this is the part I’d rather hear from people building and maintaining Drupal sites.

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The rendered page needs to be part of the next frontend prompt

A hero can compile successfully and still have the wrong line breaks, an illustration that dominates the copy, or spacing that looks nothing like the reference. The next edit needs evidence from the page the browser actually rendered.

Ant Ling's Ling-3.0-flash-VL frontend demo shows a generate → render → capture → compare → revise loop. One segment turns a London illustration with Big Ben, a Tube sign and a red bus into a landing page. Another shows a reference site and the local result side by side. There are visible layout differences, which makes the comparison stage more interesting than a claim of instant replication.

The useful input for that stage is a pair of images at a known viewport: the reference and the current render. Feedback can then name an observable mismatch and an intended change: the heading wraps a line too early; the image takes too much horizontal space; the next section starts too far down.

Keep that visual feedback attached to the relevant route and state. A screenshot of the initial page says little about the open menu or the narrow layout.

VL supplies the visual interpretation here. The surrounding environment still has to run the app, capture screenshots and expose logs or DOM information. Interaction, accessibility and viewport coverage need their own checks. What this demo adds is a concrete feedback source for the next CSS/layout revision.

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Google DeepMind Publishes AI-Powered Predictions For Effect of All 9 Billion Mutations to Human DNA

Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free research database containing AI-generated predictions for the effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations in the human genome. Built from its AlphaGenome model, the atlas is designed to help scientists interpret both protein-coding and harder-to-understand regulatory DNA. Fortune reports: AlphaGenome Atlas, as DeepMind calls the database, is a precomputed catalogue of what each substitution of a single DNA base is likely to do to the machinery that switches genes on and off. Until now researchers had to run such a model one variant at a time or had to test variants in the laboratory, a process that was painstakingly slow. It would have taken many human lifetimes to discover the consequences of all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations. The Atlas promises to make the job of biologists and medical researchers considerably easier, potentially speeding up the understanding of genetic diseases and the hunt for possible cures. Pushmeet Kohli, DeepMind's vice president for research and head of its AI for science team, told reporters on a briefing call that this was the first time any researcher in the world could reach a comprehensive map of human genetic variation "by simply opening a browser." Kohli also framed the release as helping to complete the unfinished business of the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 succeeded in mapping the entire human DNA sequence. "As the saying goes, we bought the book," he said, "but we did not understand how to read it." Atlas is available for non-commercial use from today through a website Google DeepMind has set up for it. The company said it would be available for commercial use through a licensing arrangement through Google Cloud "soon." Kohli said that Google DeepMind's sister company,ÂIsomorphic Labs, which is using AI for drug discovery, would have access to Atlas but that it would also require a commercial license for access. He did not specify exactly what the terms would be for commercial licensing. A paper describing the Atlas and how it was created is being released on bioRxiv, a repository for biomedical preprint academic papers.

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Forget folding screens, Apple is working on stretchable ones

New research that suggests that future iPhones, iPads, or perhaps Apple Watches could have a stretchable display on the outside, instead of one that just folds inward. Here's how Apple plans to do it.

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An iPad showing one illustration of a stretchable disolay

For years now, Apple has been expected to produce a folding screen iPhone, and that's more than likely to appear at the September 9, 2026 event. But all along, at lease 50 Apple engineers have been working instead on stretchable displays.

That's how many are credited on the newly-granted patent that's just called "Stretchable Display." It's at least five times more than are normally credited on an Apple patent, and so this is a serious and longterm commitment by Apple.


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What to expect from Apple's 'Surprise and shine' iPhone 18 Pro event on September 9

Apple has confirmed its September special event will be held on September 9. It won't just be the iPhone 18 Pro or folding iPhone launch, but also the first event with John Ternus as CEO. Here's what to expect.

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The Apple logo accompanying the 2026 event invite

Regular as clockwork, Apple holds an event in early September to launch new iPhone models and other products. Apple has just confirmed that this will be the case for 2026's presentation.

Titled "Surprise and shine," the event will be taking place on September 9, starting at 10 A.M. Pacific, 1 P.M. Eastern Time. As usual, it will be streamed on YouTube, the Apple Event page, and the Apple TV app, among other methods.


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Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution

A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. "The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment

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Experiencias en multinacionales

Si has trabajado en multinacionales o trabajas en una, compartirías cómo fue tu proceso de reclutamiento cuando entraste? Ya sea Dell, grainger, Phillips, etc.

Hicieron pruebas psicológicas, cuantas entrevistas? Cuánto fue el tiempo promedio entre el primer correo de la empresa hasta que firmaron contrato?

Solo por curiosidad y para que muchos que tenemos esa pregunta, la tengamos presente con respuestas, muchas gracias!

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where’s your line between “please manage Drupal for me” and “give me access to the code”?

the Webflow Source announcement sent me back into Acquia’s Source CMS product guide.

it explicitly says "customers can’t modify the underlying Drupal code or install contributed modules".

I understand the deal: less maintenance responsibility, fewer opportunities to make a beautifully customized disaster.

buttttt Drupal’s flexibility is also why a lot of people chose it.

where does that tradeoff work for you?

for a straightforward marketing site, I can see the appeal. for a project with specific integration or editorial requirements, I’d want to know where the escape hatches are.

what’s the requirement that would make you say “managed SaaS is fine”... or immediately ask for the keys?

I covered the two Sources on my Headless show, but this is the part I’d rather hear from people building and maintaining Drupal sites.

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BBC breakout comedy 'Small Prophets' is coming back for season two

After a strong first season, and an Apple TV pickup, BBC comedy "Small Prophets" is returning for a second season and making the jump from BBC Two to BBC One.

Elderly man with long gray hair and beard carefully pouring water from a large metal bucket into a smaller container inside a warmly lit, cluttered, rustic room
Pearce Quigley stars as a man driven to alchemy as he searches for his long-missing partner in "Small Prophets" - image credit: BBC

The move to BBC One puts "Small Prophets" in front of a larger audience after its first season became the BBC's biggest new comedy of the year. The series debuted on BBC Two in February and has been compared to "Ted Lasso."

Season one follows Michael Sleep, whose partner Clea disappeared nearly a decade ago. An average man, Sleep's days are spent working in a DIY store, visiting his father, and hoping for Clea's return.


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Teen Reading Slumps to Worst This Century Due to Surge in Screen Time

Teen reading, math, and science scores have fallen to their lowest levels since international PISA testing began in 2000, with 15-year-olds now reading at roughly the level previously expected of students a year younger. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) linked weaker results to more screen time, less reading for pleasure, and digital distraction. It also found that students who regularly used AI chatbots for tasks like drafting essays and summarizing text scored about 20 points lower in science, roughly equivalent to a year of learning. Reuters reports: A 2012 reading high of 501 on PISA's index had declined to a score of 466 last year. The test is widely regarded as the world's leading gauge of educational performance and its results are closely scrutinized by governments and educators. "In reading, more screen time and less reading for pleasure have gone hand in hand with weaker results," OECD head Mathias Cormann told a press conference. "We're also seeing more hasty reading, students rushing through a text and giving a quick wrong answer." Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds, the study added. Hindered by falling reading standards, average teenage science and maths skills were also at their lowest this century. Science fell from a 2009 high of 506 on the index to 486, while maths was down from 502 to 469 in the same period. East Asia was the best-performing region. Chinese cities that participated in the test, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan had the best educational systems with Britain and Estonia the only countries outside the region that made it into the top 10 in reading, mathematics and science.

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A Foco se le puede considerar lolcows del "periodismo" panameño?

Se me acaba de ocurrir esa pregunta bien random, en base a controversias que han tenido últimamente, como intentar joder convenciones de anime. Qué dicen ustedes?

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