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Apple's touchscreen MacBook is moving from rumor to near-certainty. A leaker with a strong track record is calling it one hundred percent confirmed, which is a phrase that tends to age either very well or very badly. If accurate, it would mark a significant philosophical shift for a company that spent years insisting touch didn't belong on a laptop.
On the software side, macOS twenty-seven, codenamed Golden Gate, is turning heads in its early beta. Testers are reporting unusually strong stability for a first release, alongside meaningful interface refinements. That combination is rare enough that it's worth noting — betas this clean tend to signal a development cycle that actually went according to plan.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of open source and civic infrastructure, the city of Rio de Janeiro has quietly released a large language model called Rio three point five Open, with nearly four hundred billion parameters. A municipal IT department building and releasing a model at that scale is genuinely unusual, and raises interesting questions about what governments can and should be building for themselves.
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