Google Adds Aptoide as the First Third-Party App Store Distributed Through Google Play

August 12th, 2026 07:53 AM

Google has added the Aptoide app store to Google Play, making it the first third-party store available through Google's own storefront. This change comes after a court ruling in the Epic v.Google case, which required Google to make it easier for users to install apps and games from third-party stores. For now, Aptoide is only available in the US and focuses on gaming. Google Play now includes a dedicated section for third-party stores.Aptoide already had a user base among Android gamers who...

Wisconsin result halts winning streak for Democratic Party's left wing

August 12th, 2026 09:55 AM

Centrist David Crowley is projected to have beaten democratic socialist Francesca Hong, breaking a recent nationwide trend.

Key Takeaways From This Week’s Primaries, and the Deportees Stuck in ‘No Man’s Land’

August 12th, 2026 10:00 AM

Plus, why new Alzheimer’s tests are causing distress.

Trump’s secret flight switch indicates severity of assassination threat by Iran

August 12th, 2026 10:00 AM

Iran lost top leaders in the war and US ‘humiliation ... a form of revenge’, say experts, after administration’s flight ruseSince the joint US-Israeli strikes in February that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and scores of other senior Iranian officials on the first day of the war, a revenge plot to kill Donald Trump should not have appeared far-fetched.But the US administration’s elaborate ruse to spirit Trump off of Air Force One in Turkey last month indicates a...

Elon Musk Acquires APR Energy in Deal Valued at More Than $1 Billion

August 11th, 2026 04:00 PM

Elon Musk’s $1 billion APR Energy acquisition could help xAI expand faster while raising new questions about emissions, cost, and grid dependence.

Women in Blue’s second season premieres on Apple TV

August 12th, 2026 01:00 AM

Apple TV subscribers can now stream the first episode of the new season of Women in Blue (Las Azules). Here’s what to expect from the season.

`alias_attribute` is back, pluck on unsaved records, and more!

August 7th, 2026 04:21 PM

Some things that should have worked all along finally do... like `alias_attribute` in associations, `pluck` on unsaved records, `search_field` with `autosave: true`. The rest of the week went into sharper SQL logs, sturdier job continuations, and more Ractor-ready registries. Here's what's new in Rails:Matz is coming to Rails World 2026!Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto is coming to Rails World 2026! He'll join DHH, Aaron Patterson, Robby Russell, and the rest of the lineup in Austin...

Confidential AI for GitLab Self-Hosted

August 6th, 2026 12:00 AM

Your developers want AI coding agents. Your source code is regulated IP that can't be sent to a third-party AI service, and your compliance team has said so in writing. The usual escape hatch, standing up your own GPU cluster and running the models yourself, means buying scarce hardware, hiring a team to operate it, and still trailing the frontier models by months. So you do nothing, and your teams fall behind the ones that adopted AI a year ago.GitLab Duo Self-Hosted can now use Privatemode...