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My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac

A MacBook Pro resting on a couch with Siri AI running on the macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta.

I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to macOS 27 Golden Gate has at least got me slightly rethinking things.

I'm still early in testing Siri AI, as I've only had access to it in the macOS 27 developer beta for little more than 24 hours. It's also in an early preview state on the dev beta, so there should be lots of runway for improvements before it releases later this year. I don't even know if it's done indexing my files and folders on our review unit M5 MacBook Air and M5 Max MacBook Pro. Unlike on the iOS 27 dev …

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Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

13 June 2026 at 13:00
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iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time.

The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready.

As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google's Pixel phones. But for the iPhone, they represent a tipping point in what the native photos app allows you to do to your photos. I mean memories. I mean, I don't know anymore.

These new features are part of the iOS 27 developer beta right now, so bear in mind that Apple may continue making tweaks to them before they're released to the general public. There are three, or maybe two and a …

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Scientists use light echoes to hunt dark matter around giant black holes

13 June 2026 at 12:40

Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in science. Scientists cannot see it directly, yet they believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe. Now, a new study suggests that dark matter may gather around supermassive black holes, forming large invisible clouds that influence their surroundings. Researchers from Virginia Tech have […]

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The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 

An illustration of a young woman standing on a bed. The woman is grimacing and engulfed in a flaming aura.
Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind

For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is poised to revolutionize the filmmaking industry, there haven't really been any projects created with the technology that felt like the sort of entertainment people would pay to see. Most AI firms' video models are still only capable of churning out short bursts of visually inconsistent footage. And some of Hollywood's biggest AI partnerships have suddenly evaporated in ways that make it seem like studios might not be able to rely on the new technology coming out of Silicon Valley. For the most part, short-form video slop appears to be the only thing that major production houses ar …

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Un gruppo di ricercatori guidato da Richard Levenson (UC Davis) ha dimostra…

13 June 2026 at 09:54
Un gruppo di ricercatori guidato da Richard Levenson (UC Davis) ha dimostrato che i piccioni comuni (Columba livia) possiedono capacità di riconoscimento visivo e astrazione tali da poter identificare tumori maligni al seno con precisione millimetrica. Addestrati tramite condizionamento operante, i volatili hanno analizzato biopsie e microcalcificazioni mammografiche, raggiungendo un'accuratezza dell'85% sui singoli casi e del 99% quando le risposte venivano aggregate in gruppo ("flock-sourcing"). I limiti emergono solo di fronte alle masse radiologiche sfumate e prive di contorni netti, dove sia i piccioni che gli algoritmi di intelligenza artificiale addestrati sul loro modello falliscono. La scoperta apre alla possibilità di usare questi animali per validare l'efficacia dei nuovi sistemi di imaging medico, riducendo il carico di lavoro dei radiologi umani.

Do Distant Light Emissions Prove a Finite One-Way Speed of Light?

13 June 2026 at 06:04
Does the fact that we see light from very distant galaxies prove that the one-way speed of light is finite? Dr. Jason Lisle responds to this question. The conventionality thesis plays a critical role in understanding the issue, suggesting that measurements usually assume an isotropic light speed.

Mysterious “little red dot” may be a giant black hole wrapped in gas

13 June 2026 at 01:59

Astronomers using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope may have solved one of the biggest mysteries of the early universe. A strange object known as a “little red dot” appears to be a rapidly growing supermassive black hole hidden inside a thick cloud of gas. Little red dots were first discovered by the James Webb […]

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