❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Apple is reportedly making only a few hundred foldable iPhones a day, well behind schedule.

📌 The iPhone 18 Pro Max could get a “mechanical aperture” camera for better control over light and depth of field.

📌 GPT-6 Astra is now rolling out, but independent tests found only modest gains and still put it behind Claude overall.

📌 A US court has blocked Operation Bluebird from using the Twitter trademark. The startup can still use the blue bird logo for now.

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💻 Windows wants to know your age

Windows 11 will start keeping track of users’ age ranges and sharing them with apps, so they can limit what younger users are allowed to access.

The feature has already surfaced in a new beta build and comes as governments tighten online age-verification rules.

How it’ll work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/windows-11-age-group-apps-age-verification

🍏 CEO pay, without the CEO title

Insiders believe Tim Cook will remain closely involved at Apple after stepping down as CEO. The biggest hint is his unusually large new compensation package, which reportedly surprised even senior executives.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tim-cook-apple-pay-compensation

😏 You’re being watched

Researchers found that LG smart TVs can record audio and scan devices on home networks without users realizing it.

What experts recommend doing:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/lg-smart-tv-audio-recording-home-network-privacy

🧠 Robots, report for duty

China is actively preparing humanoid robots for military use, according to Reuters. At recent competitions in Beijing, the machines showed off striking speed and agility.

What’s known so far:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/china-humanoid-robots-military-combat

🤫 Think before you send

Google is bringing Sensitive Content Warning to Android’s Photo Picker. The feature, spotted in recent Android 17 test builds, expands SafetyCore beyond protecting users from incoming nude images.

It will now also flag potentially explicit photos before they’re shared with another person.

How it’ll work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/android-sensitive-content-warning-photo-picker-nude-photos

💅 Scroll limit incoming

French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on the EU to ban social media for children under 15, with the same rules applying across all member states.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/macron-eu-social-media-ban-children-under-15

🙂 One last leak

A day before Apple’s event, Mark Gurman has revealed the expected price, design and key technical details of the iPhone Ultra — or Duo.

What to expect:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-foldable-iphone-price-specs-launch

🍏 Apple night is here

Apple’s big fall event takes place today, with several major announcements expected.

We’ve rounded up the upcoming products, UAE start time and where to watch the livestream:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-september-event-2026-uae

😎 Altman goes Hollywood

The first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial has been released, with Andrew Garfield starring as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov playing OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.

The film revisits Altman’s sudden firing from OpenAI in November 2023 and his return as CEO just five days later, set against the rise of ChatGPT and the growing AI race.

Artificial premieres October 5 at the New York Film Festival.

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🧠 One more for ChatGPT

OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.5, making image generation up to 50% faster and improving accuracy with reference images and targeted edits.

The model also holds up better across longer editing sessions.

What else is new:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-chatgpt-images-2-5-image-generation

🛸 Windows, ready for developers

Microsoft has introduced Project Zenith, a preconfigured Windows 11 setup for developer PCs, with coding tools and support for running AI models locally already built in.

It will ship on high-end machines from OEM partners, reducing the setup usually needed before developers can start working.

What’s included:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/microsoft-project-zenith-windows-11-developers

📱 Straight to No. 2

Analysts expect Apple’s first foldable iPhone to become the world’s No. 2 foldable in its debut year, capturing around 25% of the market, with Samsung still in first place.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-foldable-iphone-market-share-2026

😾 Spoilers ahead

Mark Gurman has backed up several of the biggest rumors ahead of Apple’s event, including that the foldable iPhone is apparently called iPhone Duo after all, along with new details on the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and the base iPhone 18 reportedly not arriving until at least spring.

There’s also fresh information on the Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4 and AirPods 5.

We’ve pulled together the 20 key details before the event starts at 9:00 p.m. GST:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-event-2026-what-apple-will-announce

🍏 iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199

Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, starting at $1,199 and $1,299 respectively, both with 256GB of storage.

The lineup comes in Deep Black, Silver, Glacier and Burgundy, with sales starting September 18.

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🎧 AirPods 5 add live translation

Apple has announced AirPods 5 with real-time translation, improved Active Noise Cancellation and up to 5 hours of listening with ANC enabled.

They’re priced at $129, with preorders open today and availability from September 18.

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⚡️ Apple unveils iPhone Duo

Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch inner display and 5.4-inch outer screen. Apple says it’s the thinnest iPhone yet and has the largest display ever used on an iPhone.

It comes in Star White and Night Sky, supports Split View multitasking, and uses Touch ID in the side button instead of Face ID. Apple Pencil support is coming later this year.

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😾 iPhone Duo starts at $1,999

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is priced at $1,999 for 256GB.

Preorders open October 16, with availability beginning October 23.

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🍏 And that’s a wrap

Apple’s new lineup includes the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, AirPods 5, Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, along with the A20 Pro, new camera features, iOS 27 updates and new pricing.

Everything Apple announced, in one place:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-event-2026-all-announcements

🙂 Not exactly lightweight

Experts found that the iPhone Duo is heavier than rival foldables, drops the Action Button and comes with water resistance that may weaken over time.

What Apple left out of the presentation:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-duo-weight-thickness-action-button-ip68

😽 Not much time left

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has left the company, warning that the race to build self-improving AI could eventually push the technology beyond human control and pose an existential threat.

He says the risk could become real before the end of the decade.

What the researcher is warning about:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-researcher-self-improving-ai-risks