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Shopify announced it’s abandoning React Native, the framework it adopted in 2020, to rebuild its mobile apps in native Swift and Kotlin. The company says AI agents cut the cost of maintaining two platforms separately, the original reason behind its bet on React Native six years ago.

An essay published by the engineer who writes as Graybeard argues that software doesn’t drive people crazy because it’s technically hard, but because of the hidden cost of software: the gap between what a change appears to cost and what it actually costs to sustain. Here we break it down with code examples and a practical guide for teams.

A basket of nine streaming subscriptions (Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacock, YouTube Premium, and Spotify) went from $95.91 to $154.41 a month between March 2021 and today. We break down the numbers service by service and built a script so you can calculate the increase for your own subscriptions.

Apple unveiled iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch interior display, A20 Pro chip, and Siri AI. Preorders open October 16, with the device arriving in stores on the 23rd. We cover the specs and what this means for app developers.

Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, joined Shopify on September 9, 2026. The framework remains MIT and free, but Tailwind Plus and ui.sh stop accepting new customers.

Flock Safety installed more than 130,000 license plate recognition cameras across the United States and now works with 40% of the country’s police agencies. The promise of curbing crime clashes with growing public pushback: nearly half of Americans oppose this kind of surveillance, and movements like DeFlock are mapping every camera to expose them.

Nishant Joshi implemented the IPP protocol inside the firmware of a Xteink X3 e-reader and got it to show up as a real printer on macOS. The real challenge wasn’t the protocol, it was fitting an 8.4 MB page onto a chip with 400 KB of RAM.

An investigation by Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent researchers found that LG TVs scan Wi-Fi networks, record audio in standby mode, and use automatic content recognition (ACR) even without an internet connection. It’s not the first time LG has been caught with invasive data collection practices.

A recent catalog gathered eight HTML relics born in the browser wars of the 2000s, from the ICBM meta tag to Internet Explorer’s conditional comments. None of them work today, but they explain decisions that still show up in legacy code.

A researcher factored the 512-bit RSA keys of two root certificates that Netscape 4.51 distributed in 1999. The process took between 29 and 32 hours of computation with CADO-NFS on a desktop processor.