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Apple Seeds Revised Third Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers, New Public Betas

Apple Seeds Revised Third Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers, New Public Betas

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Apple today seeded revised third betas of the upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming three days after Apple provided the initial beta to developers. Apple has also released a new version of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 for public beta testers. Registered developers and public beta testers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood, emotion, or activity using a text-based prompt. There’s also a Concerts Near You feature for finding local shows, and a redesigned look for albums and playlists with full-page artwork. Apple Podcasts is getting native video podcasting capabilities that will make it easier to create, distribute, and monetize video podcast content through the Podcasts app. Video episodes will integrate with existing Apple podcasts features, like personalized …

Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%

Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%

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Google is moving forward with a series of Play Store changes after settling a years-long legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games over anticompetitive concerns. The tech giant on Wednesday said it will drop its Play Store commissions to 20% on in-app purchases, with another 5% tacked on if app developers choose to use Google’s billing system. It’s also making it easier for users to install alternative app stores through a new optional program called the Registered App Stores program. “With these updates, we have also resolved our disputes worldwide with Epic Games,” Google said in a company blog post. The changes are part of a new settlement between the two tech rivals that will allow Epic Games to bring Fortnite back to the Google Play Store globally, while also investing in its own alternative app store, the Epic Games Store for Android. As part of the agreement, Google’s Registered App Stores program will offer a more streamlined installation flow for users who want to install apps from outside of Google Play. One of Epic’s …

Apple Seeds Revised Third Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers, New Public Betas

Apple Seeds Third Betas of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to Developers

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Apple today seeded the third betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple provided the beta to developers. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update. iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 add multiple new features to the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌, but the first beta contained no sign of new Siri capabilities. A Playlist Playground feature in Apple Music lets you generate songs for any idea, mood, emotion, or activity using a text-based prompt. There’s also a Concerts Near You feature for finding local shows, and a redesigned look for albums and playlists with full-page artwork. Apple Podcasts is getting native video podcasting capabilities that will make it easier to create, distribute, and monetize video podcast content through the Podcasts app. Video episodes will integrate with existing Apple podcasts features, like personalized recommendations and editorial suggestions. Apple is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS, which …

What Developers Know About the Dangers of Unbounded AI

What Developers Know About the Dangers of Unbounded AI

Published by Sam Flores

On Tuesday, in a closed-door meeting, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a blunt ultimatum to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Strip the ethical guardrails from your AI models by Friday or face the full weight of the state. The terms of the threat were stark. If Anthropic does not allow the Pentagon “all lawful uses” of its Claude models, Hegseth will invoke the Defense Production Act to compel cooperation, he warned—or, even more devastatingly, designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. The latter would effectively blacklist Anthropic from doing business with any entity that touches the Department of Defense. Yesterday evening, Amodei gave his answer. He rejected Hegseth’s “best and final offer,” writing, “I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.” However, he continued, “in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.” He concluded that the Pentagon’s “threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” …

Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code – here’s how it works

Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code – here’s how it works

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Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It’s not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to be deployed by this time next year. NAPA, Calif. — In the immortal words of song developer Pete Townshend, “Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know!” Linux kernel maintainers have the same question: Who are their programmers, and how can the kernel community be sure the code they submit is really theirs?  For decades, Linux kernel developers used Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) to identify developers and their release artifacts. Git’s PGP integration enabled signed tags to verify code repository integrity and signed commits to prevent hackers from impersonating legitimate developers.  Also: The latest Linux kernel release closes out the 6.x era – and it’s a gift to cloud admins In 2011, hackers successfully …

Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta Now Available for Developers

Second macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta Now Available for Developers

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Apple today provided the second beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the first beta. Developers can download the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 update by opening up the System Settings app, selecting the General category, and then choosing Software Update. Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required. ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 adds a new Charge Limit feature so Mac users can select a maximum charge level that ranges from 80 to 100 percent. Apple also brought back the Compact tab layout in Safari for those who missed the option in earlier versions of ‌macOS Tahoe‌. Apple silicon Macs who are running apps that still rely on Rosetta will see warnings about the upcoming end of support for Rosetta. After ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 27, Apple will phase out Rosetta support, and all apps will need to be updated before that time. ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.4 will be released to the public in the spring after several weeks of …

AI Agents are delivering real ROI — Here’s what 1,100 developers and CTOs reveal about scaling them

AI Agents are delivering real ROI — Here’s what 1,100 developers and CTOs reveal about scaling them

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Presented by DigitalOcean From refactoring codebases to debugging production code, AI agents are already proving their value. But scaling them in production remains the exception, not the rule. In DigitalOcean’s 2026 Currents research report, based on a survey of more than 1,100 developers, CTOs, and founders, 67% of organizations using agents report productivity gains. Meanwhile, 60% of respondents say applications and agents represent the greatest long-term value in the AI stack. Yet, only 10% are scaling agents in production.  The top blocker? Forty-nine percent cite the high cost of inference. It’s not just the price of a single API call. It’s the compounding cost as agents chain tasks and run autonomously. Nearly half of respondents now spend 76–100% of their AI budget on inference alone. This is a problem DigitalOcean is working to solve. What’s needed is infrastructure designed around inference economics: predictable performance, cost control under load, and fewer moving parts. That’s how 2026 becomes the year agents graduate from pilot to product. 52% of companies are actively implementing AI solutions (including agents) Just …

Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative

Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI’s role in the workplace, and it’s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it. In an X rant that’s being praised in online programming circles, the programmer, Dax Raad, said that what’s holding back software companies isn’t the speed they’re able to churn out code, but the quality of their ideas — an issue AI isn’t going to solve, despite the industry’s fixation on emphasizing its supposed ability to supercharge productivity. “Your org rarely has good ideas. Ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping,” wrote Raad, whose own company OpenAuth sells AI tools. And workers aren’t using AI to be ten times more effective, he continued; instead, “they’re using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend.” Worse yet, the “two people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon.” “Even when you …

OpenClaw proves agentic AI works. It also proves your security model doesn’t. 180,000 developers just made that your problem.

OpenClaw proves agentic AI works. It also proves your security model doesn’t. 180,000 developers just made that your problem.

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OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, crossed 180,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week, according to creator Peter Steinberger. Security researchers scanning the internet found over 1,800 exposed instances leaking API keys, chat histories, and account credentials. The project has been rebranded twice in recent weeks due to trademark disputes. The grassroots agentic AI movement is also the biggest unmanaged attack surface that most security tools can’t see. Enterprise security teams didn’t deploy this tool. Neither did their firewalls, EDR, or SIEM. When agents run on BYOD hardware, security stacks go blind. That’s the gap. Why traditional perimeters can’t see agentic AI threats Most enterprise defenses treat agentic AI as another development tool requiring standard access controls. OpenClaw proves that the assumption is architecturally wrong. Agents operate within authorized permissions, pull context from attacker-influenceable sources, and execute actions autonomously. Your perimeter sees none of it. A wrong threat model means wrong controls, which means blind spots. “AI runtime attacks are semantic rather than syntactic,” …

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

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When the creator of the world’s most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn’t just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development, with industry insiders calling it a watershed moment for the startup. “If you’re not reading the Claude Code best practices straight from its creator, you’re behind as a programmer,” wrote Jeff Tang, a prominent voice in the developer community. Kyle McNease, another industry observer, went further, declaring that with Cherny’s “game-changing updates,” Anthropic is “on fire,” potentially facing “their ChatGPT moment.” The excitement stems from a paradox: Cherny’s workflow is surprisingly simple, yet it allows a single human to operate with the output capacity of a small engineering department. As one user noted on X after implementing Cherny’s setup, the experience “feels more like Starcraft” than …