Eight-Letter DNA: A Natural Enzyme Reads the Expanded Code
UC San Diego researchers show that RNA polymerase from E. coli transcribes a synthetic eight-letter DNA just as accurately as life’s natural four-letter code.
Perplexity Brings Hybrid Compute to the Mac: AI Split Between Cloud and Device
Perplexity now splits a Mac AI task between cloud models and a local one. An open-sourced classifier is meant to keep sensitive data on the device.
Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake and Fixes Game Bugs
The maintenance release of the open-source graphics driver stack turns on Intel’s Nova Lake iGPUs and delivers around 70 fixes for AMD, Intel and Qualcomm hardware on Linux.
Asus ProArt P16: First Laptop With Nvidia’s RTX Spark Superchip at IFA
At IFA in Berlin, Asus unveiled the ProArt P16 with Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip, up to 128 GB unified memory and one petaflop of AI performance in a 1.77-kilogram chassis.
VW’s Future Plan 2030: 50,000 More Jobs Cut, Four German Plants in Doubt
Volkswagen’s supervisory board approves Future Plan 2030: around 50,000 more jobs to go, the model range roughly halved by 2035, and four German plants left without secured production.
BepiColombo Reaches Mercury: Transfer Module Successfully Jettisoned
After nearly eight years, the ESA-JAXA probe BepiColombo has dropped its propulsion module and begun the delicate arrival phase at Mercury. The manoeuvre was run from Darmstadt.
Critical WordPress Flaw CVE-2026-11613 in Divi Ajax Filter Enables Remote Code Execution
An unauthenticated local file inclusion bug in the Divi Ajax Filter WordPress plugin lets remote attackers run PHP code. Divi Engine ships a fix in version 5.1.3.
Withings StethO Sense: AI Listens to Heart and Lungs at IFA 2026
Withings brings StethO Sense, an AI analysis of heart and lung sounds, to its multisensor BeamO device. The feature is set to launch on 1 October.
Teufel IKONIO: Berlin’s 650-Watt High-End Wi-Fi Speaker Debuts at IFA 2026
At IFA 2026 Teufel unveils the IKONIO, a compact Wi-Fi speaker with eight drivers, dual subwoofers and 650 watts of power, priced at 1,199.99 euros.
Forgejo Runner v13.1.0 opens CI to custom execution environments
Forgejo Runner v13.1.0 ships an experimental plugin engine for external execution environments and drops pseudo-terminals from job logs, noticeably reshaping self-hosted CI.