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A daily-updated feed of Android, AI and web-development news, organised by topic. Articles open on the original publisher’s site.
Updated Oct 7, 2026
- Android
Google's smart home lead could be in trouble if this new rival delivers
Google may finally have a serious new rival
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- iOS & Apple
Apple may have to pay an annual lump sum to the EU in a tax compromise
Apple and other tech giants may have to pay an annual lump sum to the EU under a modified version of a digital services tax plan. The EU hopes a revised version of earlier proposals will…
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- Android
Why typing '@' in Google Docs completely changed how I draft my documents
A Gemini Notebook link inside Google Docs turns scattered research into a usable personal library for writers
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- Kotlin & Multiplatform Official
Start Your Next KMP App With Kotlin Toolchain 0.13
The Kotlin Toolchain is a unified entry point into Kotlin. It lets you build JVM, Android, iOS, multiplatform, and server-side applications with a simple declarative configuration. With the release of v0.13, we now recommend the Kotlin…
Read on Kotlin : A concise multiplatform language developed by JetBrains | The JetBrains Blog →
- Android
I haven't paid a cent for cloud storage in years. Here's my setup
Here’s how I maxed out free cloud storage
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- Android
Your Pixel Watch's free safety net is about to disappear
Safety Signal could be phased out soon
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- Android
Googlebook's best feature doesn't work with Samsung phones yet
Better Together, but without Samsung
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- Android
Google Messages is quietly ditching a key RCS feature users rely on
There is no clarity when it will be removed, though
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- iOS & Apple
Formula 1 on Apple TV is getting Dolby Atmos, starting this month
Beginning with the U.S. Grand Prix weekend on Friday, October 23, Apple TV will offer Formula 1 coverage in Dolby Atmos on supported devices. Here are the details. more…
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- iOS & Apple
Apple overtakes Samsung to lead European carrier smartphone sales in Q2, per report
A new report from Counterpoint Research shows that Apple overtook Samsung during the second quarter of 2026 to become the leading smartphone brand in Europe’s carrier channel, as operator sales held up better than the broader…
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- Android
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 and Buds 2a just keep getting better thanks to a new feature-packed update
These are the updates worth waiting for
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- iOS & Apple
Acclaimed British comedy series ‘Small Prophets’ now available on Apple TV
The first two episodes of “ Small Prophets ” are now available to stream on Apple TV, following a wave of glowing reviews for the British comedy series. Watch the trailer below. more…
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- iOS & Apple
Prime Day Mac deals: New Mac mini $150 off, MacBook Air $200 off, much more
Update, October 6, 5:09 p.m. PT : Amazon has slashed prices of the new Mac mini even lower as the Prime Day festivities ramp up: 2026 M6 Mac mini 16GB/256GB $769 (Reg. $899) – All-time low…
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- Android
These Skullcandy ANC headphones usually fly under the radar, but not when they're 78% off
Great value, don't miss out
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- iOS & Apple
iFixit tears down Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, finds mixed repairability results
Concluding iFixit’s teardown sequence for Apple’s September launches, iFixit today published the teardown of the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. Here’s what they found. more…
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- iOS & Apple
Report: Apple’s smart home push includes LG-made doorbell, lock, thermostat, more
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s plans for smart home products include devices, sensors, and cameras codeveloped in partnership with LG. Here are the details. more…
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- iOS & Apple
Apple sets Q4 2026 earnings release for November 2
Apple will announce the results of its fiscal third quarter of 2026 on Monday, November 2. Here’s what to expect. more…
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- Tools & DevOps Official
Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development. The post Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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- Tools & DevOps
Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results
Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily usage of AI coding assistants despite lingering developer trust issues, the critical role…
Read on Stack Overflow Blog →
- Architecture Official
Why LLMs Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong
When LLMs sometimes agree with incorrect claims, it is mostly because their training rewards such behaviour. This reward system is built on several things at once, such as accuracy, helpfulness, politeness, and responses that people like.
Read on ByteByteGo Newsletter →
- iOS & Apple Official
Hello Developer: October 2026
In this edition: Get tips on submitting your iPhone Duo app. Sign up for new iPhone Duo Group Labs. Join us for a new developer event on speed and efficiency. Explore localized documentation. Browse new App…
Read on Latest News - Apple Developer →
- Tools & DevOps
The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!
Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what s going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.
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- AI & Machine Learning Official
Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance
Read on Hugging Face - Blog →
- iOS & Apple Official
Prepare and submit your apps for iPhone Duo
iPhone Duo will be available to customers starting October 23, 2026. To get your apps and games ready today, you can: Build or recompile with Xcode Recompile existing apps with Xcode 27.1, which adds development support…
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- Android Official
How Instagram Direct engineers built AI-native UI architecture with Jetpack Compose and reduced token cost per agent session by 33%
Posted by Pavlo Stavytskyi, Software Engineer, Meta and Rebecca Franks, Developer Relations Engineer, Google This blog post is written in collaboration with the Meta team. Instagram Direct is one of the core surfaces on Instagram, handling…
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- iOS & Apple Official
Showcase your apps with new assets on the App Store
Make your apps and games stand out with new creative assets on the App Store and asset management tools in App Store Connect. Market your app or game in new ways Use new creative assets on…
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- Architecture Official
Announcing the AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens for the Well-Architected Framework
October 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Today we’re launching the AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens, a new Well-Architected lens providing customers with extended guidance for designing, building, and operating sovereign workloads on AWS.…
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- Tools & DevOps Official
ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review
We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics. The post ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review appeared first on…
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- Architecture Official
The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt
In this article, we ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.
Read on ByteByteGo Newsletter →
- Kotlin & Multiplatform Official
Discontinuing Swift Language IDE Support in the Kotlin Multiplatform Plugin
Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 2026.2.2, we’re discontinuing Swift language IDE features in the Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plugin. This includes editing, syntax highlighting, and navigation within Swift files and between Swift…
Read on Kotlin : A concise multiplatform language developed by JetBrains | The JetBrains Blog →
- Architecture Official
Fragments: October 4
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied : we shipped the id…
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- Architecture Official
Last 3 days: AI Evals, October cohort
Secure your spot in AI Evals in Practice. Enrollment closes in just 3 days! If you ve been thinking about joining, now s the time.
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- AI & Machine Learning Official
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Read on Hugging Face - Blog →
- Architecture Official
EP228: How SSH Works
Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client to the remote machine (SSH server).
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- Architecture Official
Deploy Oracle Database step by step on Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP
This post provides step-by-step procedures to deploy Oracle Database on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as NFS datastore storage. You provision storage volumes, mount NFS datastores, install Oracle, and…
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- Architecture Official
Architect highly available Oracle Database on Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP
Learn how to architect a highly available Oracle Database environment on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This post covers EC2 bare metal instance selection, vSAN and FSx storage tiering,…
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- Architecture Official
Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC
Deploy AWS Regional availability data as infrastructure you own. Capability Insights for AWS runs a self-hosted dashboard in your VPC that auto-refreshes daily, and Workload Analysis narrows the catalog to the services your account actually runs,…
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- Android Official
Device Streaming and Android skills - available in Android CLI
Posted by Simona Milanovic, Developer Relations Engineer As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, LLMs, tools, and command-line interfaces (CLI) you use for app development. Our goal is to help…
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- Android Official
Android Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how large language models (LLMs) assist developers with real-world Android tasks. As AI models…
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- iOS & Apple Official
Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order…
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- AI & Machine Learning Official
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, the fast report-generation model in Asta
Read on Hugging Face - Blog →
- AI & Machine Learning Official
The latest AI news we announced in September 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from September 2026
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- Tools & DevOps Official
AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.
Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow. The post AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The…
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- Tools & DevOps
Constraints that make developers faster
Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed programming languages, and building cost-effective tooling for AI agents.
Read on Stack Overflow Blog →
- AI & Machine Learning Official
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Read on Hugging Face - Blog →
- iOS & Apple Official
Upcoming expiration of Developer ID Certification Authority (Sub-CA)
The original Developer ID Certification Authority (Sub-CA) expires on February 1, 2027. Certificates issued by this authority will stop working on that date. What to do: Check if you’re affected. In Certificates, Identifiers Profiles , look…
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- Architecture Official
Accelerating airline retailing innovation: how Datalex modernized with AWS Experience-Based Acceleration and agentic AI
Datalex, a leader in airline ecommerce, partnered with AWS on a three-day Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to prove modernization feasibility. Learn how they migrated a core reservation component from EJB/Java 8 to Spring Boot/Java 21, built…
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- Architecture Official
Why State is the Hardest Thing in Software Design
In this article, we will look at why state is the hardest thing in software development and the multiple strategies that developers can use to manage it.
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- Tools & DevOps Official
10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026
From verifying AI-written code to securing npm dependencies, these are the sessions I’m building my Universe agenda around. The post 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog…
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- Tools & DevOps
A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective
This analysis compares the 2024 and 2025 Developer Survey data across three connected stories: the evolution of AI, humans at work, and demographics and community.
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- Architecture Official
Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift
Prove your multi-AZ architecture can sustain a real impairment. This post shows how to run a multi-day (48-72 hour) Availability Zone evacuation drill with ARC Zonal Shift across Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL,…
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- Architecture Official
How MHK built a HIPAA-eligible agentic AI solution on Amazon Bedrock
MHK built the SmartProminence AI Orchestrator, a HIPAA-eligible agentic workflow framework on AWS using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon ECS, and event-driven patterns. It reduced manual medical review effort by 90% and cut new AI feature deployment from…
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- Android Official
Driving growth on Google Play: The next era of subscriptions
Posted by Sheenam Mittal, Senior Product Manager, Google Play The subscription landscape is evolving rapidly, especially with the surge of generative AI and increasingly sophisticated app experiences. As the ecosystem shifts, we recognize that developers need…
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- Tools & DevOps
Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.
AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those sources disagree, or when they become stale.
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- Tools & DevOps
Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal
Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their knowledge in a Stack Internal workspace for free by visiting stackinternal.com.
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- Architecture Official
How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
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- Architecture Official
Principles for effective slides
Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that…
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- Tools & DevOps
Getting ready for 2026 results: A look back on Developer Survey findings
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- Kotlin & Multiplatform Official
The Companions to Come
We are working on extensions to our companions mechanism to unlock new code patterns and improve interoperability across different platforms. This post outlines these new features and provides preliminary guidance on migration. Companion blocks and extensions…
Read on Kotlin : A concise multiplatform language developed by JetBrains | The JetBrains Blog →
- AI & Machine Learning Official
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
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