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Apple's iPhone eighteen Pro and eighteen Pro Max are now open for preorder, following the company's September event that also unveiled the new iPhone Duo foldable. Carriers and retailers are already rolling out promotional discounts, so if you've been eyeing an upgrade, the preorder window is live and competition for your wallet is fierce.
Shifting to the AI development world, a tool called Rust-split is drawing attention from developers frustrated with how AI coding agents handle large source files. The core problem is elegant in its simplicity — agents processing oversized files operate on something close to an order-n-squared algorithm, burning tokens inefficiently and generating edits that increasingly fail. Rust-split breaks those files into manageable pieces before the agent ever touches them.
And for Windows laptop users tired of watching their battery drain before lunch, a timely reminder that default settings are often the enemy. Engadget is pointing to a handful of configuration changes — power modes, background app activity, display refresh rates — that can meaningfully extend runtime without requiring any new hardware at all.
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