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Google's Android 16 arrived last June with a stable release on Pixel devices, but nearly a year later, its minor refinements continue to reshape daily phone use. Developers hit...

Nova Launcher’s AI Pivot: Subscriptions and Surveillance on Your Home Screen

Nova Launcher, once the gold standard for Android home screen customization, now eyes a future powered by artificial intelligence—and recurring payments. Code buried in the late...

Cloudflare’s Multi-Agent Code Review Machine: Scaling AI Oversight Across 130,000 Merge Requests

Cloudflare engineers submit merge requests by the thousands each month. Code review bottlenecks used to slow them down. Median wait times stretched into hours. Not anymore....

EU’s 2027 Battery Mandate Forces Smartphone Redesigns, Rattling Apple and Samsung Supply Chains

Less than a year out from enforcement, the European Union's mandate for user-replaceable batteries in smartphones and tablets is upending device manufacturing. Come February 18,...

Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Fight Ends: Masimo’s Six-Year Onslaught Fizzles at ITC

Apple Inc. declared victory in a bruising patent war over its smartwatch's blood-oxygen sensor. The U.S. International Trade Commission shut down Masimo Corp.'s final push fo...

Samsung’s Luna: The Swiveling AI Orb That Could Bind Homes in Communal Intelligence

A round screen tilts. It swivels toward you. Soft beeps echo, like Wall-E stirring to life. Samsung unveiled Project Luna at Milan Design Week 2026, a desktop robot blending...

Amazon’s $1.2 Billion Bet on Globalstar Signals a Satellite War That Goes Far Beyond Internet Access

Amazon doesn't just want to sell you things. It wants to be the invisible infrastructure underneath everything — your groceries, your cloud computing, your voice assistant, a...

Google Wallet’s Quiet Privacy Overhaul Lets You Hide Your Boarding Passes and Loyalty Cards From Prying Eyes

Google is rolling out a feature that sounds almost embarrassingly basic — the ability to hide passes stored in Google Wallet. But for the millions of users who've accumulated...

Microsoft Is Killing Outlook Lite — And Millions of Android Users in Emerging Markets May Pay the Price

Microsoft is pulling the plug on Outlook Lite for Android, and the timing couldn't be more telling. The lightweight email client, designed specifically for users in developin...

Mullenweg’s Override: Akismet’s Last-Minute Slot in WordPress 7.0 Sparks Core Clash

Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, stepped in last week to reverse core committers on a contentious change for WordPress 7.0. He directed the team to re...

Character.AI’s Literary Gambit: Books Become Roleplay Bots as Safety Shadows Linger

Character.AI just flipped the page on storytelling. Its new Books feature pulls public domain classics into interactive chats, letting users slip into worlds like Alice in Wo...

Linux 7.1 Sound Overhaul Ushers in Apple Silicon Audio Precision and Broad Hardware Fixes

Linux kernel 7.1 merges sound subsystem updates that bridge gaps in modern hardware support. Bus keepers land in ASoC. They target Apple Silicon laptops first. Developers eye...

CachyOS Accelerates into Linux 7.0 Era with Aggressive Kernel Patches and Hardware Optimizations

CachyOS, the Arch Linux derivative tuned for peak performance, has rolled out Linux kernel 7.0 to its repositories. This move puts the distribution ahead of many rivals. User...

GNOME Mutter Update Fixes VA-API H.264 for Better Video Encoding

Recent developments in the GNOME desktop environment have addressed a persistent issue with hardware-accelerated video encoding, specifically involving VA-API support for H.264...

Wide Screens Reshape Foldables: Huawei’s Oddball Leads Charge Against Motorola and Samsung

Jon Gilbert had his sights set on Motorola's Razr Fold. That changed fast. Huawei's Pura X Max, with its oversized camera bump and tablet-like inner screen, grabbed his atten...

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