Blog archive
The iPhone Duo ships on iOS 27.1, and that is also the release that opens Apple's arrangement APIs to third-party apps. Here is what the layout work actually involves, with Apple's own code.
Manu Shukla 
iPhone Duo went on sale on 23 October 2026 on iOS 27.1. Your app already runs on it. This is the ordered list of what to fix so it runs well, and the April 2027 dates Apple has set.
Manu Shukla 
Nobody can quote iPhone Duo support from a feature list. The cost is set by four properties of your existing codebase. Here is how to find out which tier you are in before you commission anything.
Manu Shukla 
Apple's iPhone Duo release omits RAM, resolution, refresh rate and battery capacity. Third-party spec sheets print numbers for all of them. Here is which figures have a source and which do not.
Manu Shukla 
Google Play's API 36 submission floor took effect on 31 August 2026. Twelve days on, Google's own pages still describe the extension to 1 November 2026 in future tense. How to hire against it.
Manu Shukla 
Mistral announced Leanstral 1.5's retirement in the same changelog entry that announced its release. Eighteen days out, the model card still badges it Public Preview and pricing files it under Labs.
Manu Shukla 
The Echo Dot went from $49.99 to $79.99 overnight. Behind it: conventional DRAM contract prices roughly 3.4x to 3.8x their 4Q25 level, and two credible forecasts pointing opposite ways.
Manu Shukla 
Azure auto-enrolled PostgreSQL 11, 12 and 13 servers in extended support on 1 August 2026 and bills from 1 September at $0.07 to $0.161 per vCore-hour. The upgrade escape hatch is narrower than it looks.
Manu Shukla 
Cohere's ASR models are Apache 2.0 and free to try, but the only published production price is $3.75 per hour per instance. Here is the break-even, and three capability gaps in the docs.
Manu Shukla 
The AWS CLI 2.36.30 reference lists four container-instance health check types. The ECS API Reference lists three. The drain threshold that triggers instance replacement is published in neither.
Manu Shukla 
AWS announced 10 external OIDC identity providers per EKS cluster on 24 August 2026 at no extra charge. The user guide adds a Kubernetes 1.32 floor and a 12 KB ceiling the announcement never mentions.
Manu Shukla 
NVIDIA announced Groq 3 LPX in full production on 24 August 2026 and named Nebius the first cloud to adopt it. Groq's post the same day claims it is among the first. Neither published a date or a price.
Manu Shukla 
Instinct's Terms of Service, revised 20 August 2026, take a perpetual, irrevocable licence over screen captures and keystrokes. Workspace data is carved out, so the same email can fall on both sides.
Manu Shukla 
Lambda full IAM resource-based policies shipped on 25 August 2026 at no extra charge. The launch adds three APIs on a new 2026-07-09 path, keeps the old 20 KB ceiling, and leaves two AWS pages in conflict.
Manu Shukla 
Amazon's 24 August 2026 post credits MySQL 8.4.11 with post-quantum TLS key exchange. The 8.4.11 release notes list no such feature, and RDS MySQL 8.4 is built on AWS-LC rather than OpenSSL 3.5.
Manu Shukla 
The 24 August 2026 launch says Ray on SageMaker HyperPod needs a cluster and the KubeRay operator. The dashboards, IDE attach, Grafana panels and KV cache each need a separate add-on.
Manu Shukla 
Customer managed keys for SageMaker MLflow arrived on 24 August 2026. They cover MLflow Apps in 16 AWS Regions and no MLflow Tracking Server, which is where most teams still are.
Manu Shukla 
Sentence Transformers 6.0 published 18 August 2026 adds ColBERT-style late interaction. The gain is about one NDCG point on NanoBEIR. The cost is 311.5 MB where a dense index used 7.5 MB.
Manu Shukla 
TrendForce forecasts server DRAM contract prices up 13-18% QoQ in 3Q26 and SLC NAND up 120-170% across 2H26. Amazon raised device prices by as much as 60%. The published averages hide who actually pays.
Manu Shukla 
TrendForce published two NAND numbers 18 days apart in 2026: 10-15% QoQ for 3Q26, and 70-75% for SLC NAND across 2H26. Budget an industrial BOM off the first and you are wrong by five times.
Manu Shukla 
Google's 24 August 2026 AAOS SDV post says adding a security-sensitive service means updating every VM in the mesh. The AOSP deployment page describes a default policy built to avoid that.
Manu Shukla 
Microsoft's 24 August 2026 GA note says the eBPF host routing rollout respects existing connections. The enable page it links says the opposite and pins a Kubernetes version that died in July 2026.
Manu Shukla 
Azure App Service published its Node 22 LTS retirement on 24 August 2026 and named Node 24 LTS as the target. The Node.js schedule put Node 24 into maintenance 57 days later and ends it in April 2028.
Manu Shukla 
Azure Application Gateway WAF can now return a custom status code and body instead of a bare 403. The announcement claims parity with Front Door, but only Front Door publishes the five permitted codes.
Manu Shukla 