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NVIDIA GETS DOJ SUBPOENA IN ESCALATING ANTITRUST PROBE

The US Department of Justice has sent subpoenas to Nvidia and other companies seeking evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws. Antitrust officials are concerned that Nvidia is making it harder to switch to other suppliers and penalizing buyers that don't exclusively use its artificial intelligence chips. Nvidia claims that its market dominance stems from the quality of its products. The company prioritizes customers who can make use of its products in ready-to-go data centers as soon as they're provided to prevent stockpiling and to speed up the broader adoption of AI.

RIP LCD: APPLE REPORTEDLY GOES ALL-OLED FOR NEW IPHONES

Apple is reportedly putting OLED-based screens into all of its iPhones in the iPhone 16 lineup. The company is no longer using displays from Japanese suppliers and ramping up the use of OLEDs from China and South Korea. OLED displays were previously only available in the premium Pro and Pro Max models. The new phones, expected to be announced on September 9, will also feature the introduction of new Apple Intelligence AI features.

SPACEX POLARIS DAWN MISSION SET TO LAUNCH EARLY FRIDAY

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, set to feature the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens, is now scheduled to launch on Friday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, with backup opportunities on Saturday and Sunday. The mission aims to reach a peak altitude of 870 miles, the highest for any crewed mission in over half a century. The crew will be wearing newly developed SpaceX extravehicular activity suits on their spacewalk. The launch was delayed twice last week due to technical issues and weather constraints.

NEW FORMS OF STEEL FOR STRONGER, LIGHTER CARS

Automakers tweak production processes to create new steels that allow them to build cars that are both safer and more fuel-efficient. Most steel is more than 98 percent iron - it's the remaining amounts that make the difference. Modifying treatment methods can also change the metal's structure to yield different properties. This article looks at some of these techniques and the materials that comprise modern vehicles.

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QUICK GUIDE TO WEB TYPOGRAPHY FOR DEVELOPERS

This guide covers key typography settings and teaches how to manipulate them with CSS to make texts on apps and websites look good by default. It is designed to help developers get good results without diving headfirst into typography. The guide focuses on general adjustments that make text good-looking and easy to read and the CSS rules needed to achieve that. Experienced designers shouldn't be afraid to break the rules, but developers should probably stick to sensible defaults if they're not sure.

GREPPABILITY IS AN UNDERRATED CODE METRIC

Making a codebase searchable can make functions, error messages, class names, and other components easier to find. Splitting up identifiers is a bad idea because while it looks nice, it makes it easier to miss specific occurrences. Use the same names for things across the stack, otherwise, you'll have to make multiple queries to find all occurrences. Flat-named structures are mostly better than nested ones.

TESLA WILL NEED SOME HOLLYWOOD MAGIC FOR ITS ROBOTAXI REVEAL

Tesla will likely reveal its long-awaited autonomous robotaxi at the Warner Bros. movie studio in Los Angeles at an event on October 10. The 110-acre lot contains fake suburban towns, which could be an ideal location to test the technology. The company has been collecting data in the area to help its demonstration perform flawlessly. This approach suggests that the technology is still far away from true Level 5 autonomy and restrained by geographic limitations.

INTEL REVEALS FIRST LUNAR LAKE LAPTOP CPUS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Intel's new Core Ultra 200V lineup, formerly known as Lunar Lake, claims to beat Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and AMD Strix Point laptop chips in almost every way. The first wave of laptops is set to ship on September 24. They will feature a significantly increased battery life and increased performance. Despite improvements, the laptops in the new lineup will be limited to 32GB of RAM - users who want more cores, threads, and RAM will have to wait for Intel's Arrow Lake, which may be coming as soon as October 10.

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THE 2034 WEBSITE

MIT's 6.UAT class had a website that lasted 15 years - this post discusses how it was redesigned to last another 15 years.

OPENAI, STILL HAUNTED BY ITS CHAOTIC PAST, IS TRYING TO GROW UP

OpenAI is struggling to transform itself into a profit-driven company while satisfying worries about the safety of artificial intelligence.

MICROSOFT ROLLED OUT AI PCS THAT CAN'T PLAY TOP GAMES—AND THERE'S NO QUICK FIX

The Copilot+ PCs that Microsoft and its partners rolled out this Spring use Qualcomm's Arm-based chips, which aren't compatible with many leading video games.

WHY YOU SHOULDN'T STORE LARGE FILES IN GIT

When you add a large file to git, it creates a new entry in the object database, and since there's no real way to isolate the change, everyone who ever uses the repository will need to download the file change.

WHY-IS-NODE-RUNNING

why-is-node-running is a tool that helps developers figure out why Node.js is running.

YUBIKEYS ARE VULNERABLE TO CLONING ATTACKS THANKS TO NEWLY DISCOVERED SIDE CHANNEL

The YubiKey 5 contains an unpatchable cryptographic flaw that makes it vulnerable to cloning if an attacker gains temporary physical access to it - all YubiKeys running firmware prior to version 5.7 are permanently vulnerable.