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Apple's Real-Life Rewind Button, OpenAI's Custom Git, and RGB Liquid Cooling

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▸ • Apple Watch beta introduces 'Live Rewind' to capture the last 15 seconds of your conversations

▸ • OpenAI built a custom Git backend called Pando to handle the massive scale of AI agent commits

▸ • Rivian's micromobility spinoff 'Also' is finally shipping its pedal-by-wire e-bike

Headlines & Launches

⌚ Apple Watch Gets a Rewind Button for Real Life

Apple's new watchOS beta introduces 'Live Rewind' and 'Siri Recaps,' letting you capture the last 15 seconds of audio or summarize entire conversations. It processes everything locally in a secure enclave, so Apple can't hear you asking the waiter to repeat the specials for the third time.

Source: TechCrunch

🚲 Rivian's Spinoff Finally Ships Its Modular E-Bike

'Also,' the micromobility brand spun out of Rivian, is finally delivering its TM-B electric bike. It features a pedal-by-wire system, USB-C charging, and an 'Infinite Turtle Mode' that kicks in when the battery dies, turning your pedaling into a mere suggestion.

Source: The Verge

💰 Evertrue Capital Debuts $17M Fund for European AI

Yvonne Bajela is bringing fresh capital to Europe's startup scene with a new $17M fund targeting early-stage AI and fintech. Because if there's one thing the world needs right now, it's more AI fintech startups.

Source: TechCrunch

Deep Dives & Analysis

📻 The 10-Ounce Gadget Hacking Russian Drone Feeds

A Kyiv startup called CODE380 has built a pocket-sized software-defined radio that intercepts unencrypted analog video from Russian drones. It sweeps frequencies up to 8.7 GHz, letting Ukrainian troops see exactly what the enemy pilot is aiming at before impact.

Source: Defense News

📱 Apple Can't Predict When You'll Get an iPhone Duo

Despite a record-breaking Q4 for iPhone sales, Apple CEO John Ternus admits the company has no timeline for when iPhone Duo supply constraints will lift. Turns out, building enough folding phones to meet demand is still really hard.

Source: The Verge

Engineering & Research

🐙 How OpenAI Scaled Git for AI Agents

OpenAI built 'Pando,' a custom Git-compatible backend in Rust, to handle the massive concurrent pushes generated by Codex agents. By dropping the requirement to keep every branch consistent at once, they cut median push latency by 80% and now serve a petabyte of Git data daily.

Source: OpenAI

☁️ Cloudflare Cuts DNS Build Memory by 85%

Cloudflare revamped its DNS Zone Builder to stop rebuilding entire 20-million-record zones for a single setting change. The new targeted build planner chooses the smallest safe build, halving the time it takes for a DNS change to propagate.

Source: Cloudflare Blog

Miscellaneous

🎮 Redmagic Puts RGBs Inside Its Liquid Cooling Loop

The Redmagic 12 Pro gaming phone features a transparent liquid cooling loop with built-in RGB lights. Unfortunately, the cooling liquid is fluorescent blue, meaning your carefully chosen red LEDs just look like weird bubbles swimming in a blue tide.

Source: The Verge

🗡️ Google Transports You Back to 1998

Searching for 'Zelda' on Google right now triggers an Easter egg that transforms your search results into a glorious, retro 1998 layout. The flow of time is always cruel, but at least the nostalgia is sweet.

Source: Ars Technica

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