Inside iOS 27 📱, Google scales compute 📈, running a fixit 👨‍💻

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Schedule a demo to learn more 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple iOS 27 to Be No-Frills 'Snow Leopard' Update, Other Than New AI (15 minute read) iOS 27 will be focused on improving software quality and underlying performance. Many users have reported bugs in iOS 26, including device overheating, unexplained battery drain, user interface glitches, keyboard failures, cellular connectivity issues, app crashes, and sluggishness during system navigation and animations. iOS 27 will also lay the foundations for foldable iPhones and other new hardware. In general, Apple's operating systems next year will revolve mostly around performance and AI. Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees (7 minute read) Google aims to be able to deliver over a thousand times more capability, compute, and storage for essentially the same cost, power, and energy level in the next five years. This will require it to double its serving capacity every six months. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are now expected to collectively spend more than $380 billion on infrastructure this year. Besides infrastructure build-outs, Google plans to bolster its capacity with more efficient models and custom silicon. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins (6 minute read) Evo is a genomic language model developed using an enormous collection of bacterial genomes. It can generate novel sequences from prompts. Evo can produce outputs that include regions that encode proteins with related functions when prompted with a gene. It appears to be capable of outputting entirely new yet functional proteins. We Induced Smells With Ultrasound (10 minute read) Smells are processed in the olfactory bulb, which is tucked behind the top of the nose. Scientists have managed to use ultrasound targeted at the olfactory bulb to induce the sensation of fresh air and ozone and the smell of garbage and burning wood. Smells are strong and localized to the nose, while sensations are more diffuse, like a light tingling on the face. The scientists plan to improve their technique to significantly increase the bit rate of olfactory stimulation. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science If Your API Isn't Fresh, Your Agents Aren't Either (Sponsor) In the agentic era, outdated retrieval breaks workflows. This API Benchmark Report from You.com shows how each major search API performs to reveal which can best answer real-world, time-sensitive queries.  Curious who performed best? Get the 2025 API Benchmark Report. We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs (12 minute read) Once a quarter, the team at Google working on Perfetto, an open source suite of tools for performance tracing and analysis, stops all regular work for a week and fixes the small things that have been annoying them or their users. The most recent 'fixit', in which 40 people participated, resolved 189 bugs. Fixits are a great chance to work on the details that separate good products from great ones. They increase team morale and spirit and create real momentum. This post contains a guide on how to run a fixit. kit (GitHub Repo) kit is a toolkit for codebase mapping, symbol extraction, code search, and building LLM-powered developer tools, agents, and workflows. It can build things like code reviewers, code generators, and IDEs. kit can be used directly with Python, MCP with function calling, REST, or through the command-line. kit ships with CLI-based pull request review and summarization features. It can generate intelligent commit messages from staged changes. 🎁 Miscellaneous Companies Predict 2026 Will Be the Worst College Grad Job Market in Five Years (5 minute read) Next Spring's graduate-hiring market is likely going to be even worse than this year's. This is the most pessimistic outlook since the first year of the pandemic. Companies say that an uncertain economic outlook has pushed them to hire more conservatively, and many are giving priority to prospects with experience rather than fresh graduates. People with experience are currently willing to take entry-level positions because they can't find anything else, pushing out those with less training. Work, Woodlands, and Geocaches (14 minute read) Your job will always want more from you. However, you only have so much time for everything in life. You don't have to quit your job, but you should add more to life - like hobbies, small adventures, and acts of service. Doing this allows work to stop being the whole story. 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Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster (6 minute read) The layoffs impacted a mix of software engineer levels, but SDE II roles, or mid-level employees, were disproportionately affected. tree-me: Because git worktrees shouldn't be a chore (6 minute read) Being able to work on multiple branches simultaneously is a game-changer. Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft? (2 minute read) Microsoft doesn't really feel like a consumer company anymore, and competitors are ready to fill in the gap. Styleframe (Website) Styleframe's powerful TypeScript CSS API helps developers compose design systems in minutes. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. 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