Author: Geek Planet

This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn in Spain, where a woman was euthanized and then had part of her face transplanted. From the Catalan News story: Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has performed the world’s first face transplant with a donor who passed away from euthanasia. Around 100 medical professionals took part in the partial face transplant, a highly complex operation using neurovascular microsurgery techniques that lasted about 24 hours. In presenting the milestone procedure, the healthcare director, Maria José Abadías, highlighted the “extraordinary generosity…

Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, Claude Code, is getting a new feature designed to help developers identify and resolve bugs faster and more efficiently. Aptly named Code Review, the feature automatically analyzes code changes, flags potential issues, and provides actionable feedback before the code is merged. Anthropic explains that when a pull request (PR) is opened, Code Review “dispatches a team of agents that look for bugs in parallel, verify bugs to filter out false positives, and rank bugs by severity. The result lands on the PR as a single high-signal overview comment, plus in-line comments for specific bugs.” The company…

Apple’s AI strategy might be taking a very familiar turn, one that made the iPhone what it is today. As per Bloomberg’s recent report, Apple is working on a new “Extensions” system in iOS 27 that would allow third-party AI assistants to plug directly into Siri, including services like Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. More importantly, this won’t just be a hidden setting. Instead, Apple is reportedly planning a dedicated section inside the App Store for these AI integrations, effectively creating a marketplace for AI tools, very similar to how apps are distributed today. What does this actually mean for…

X has added a new option that appears to let users block Grok from editing photos they share on the platform. The control, introduced in the X app, is labeled “block modifications by Grok” and is meant to give people more control over unwanted edits of their images. The feature was first reported by Social Media Today and has been verified by GeekPlanet. On the surface, it looks like a privacy-friendly move to prevent unwanted AI edits. However, testing by the The Verge reveals that the protection is more limited than the name suggests. Why the Grok modification block feature…

Google and Samsung are quietly building a tap to share feature for Android that works a lot like Apple’s AirDrop. The idea is simple enough. You hold two phones close together, and files transfer between them without digging through share menus or hunting for a nearby device name. According to Android Authority, evidence for the feature has been piling up across three separate places. It appears in Samsung’s One UI 9 builds, inside Google Play Services code, and even in Android 17 system files. Developers tracking these builds say the feature has been taking shape since late 2025, and it…

Figure is gradually prepping its humanoid robot to competently take on household chores. While the California-based company has ambitions to deploy its robot in industrial settings like factories and warehouses, it also plans to create a robot capable of functioning inside a home. A new video (top) released by Figure on Monday shows its humanoid robot tidying up a messy — though not too messy — living room, putting away some toys, rearranging cushions, placing the remote control neatly on the coffee table, and performing some light polishing. While not lightning fast, the autonomous bipedal bot moves at a steady…

Apple has finally addressed one of the most annoying iPhone typing issues. With iOS 26.4, it fixed a bug that caused missed keystrokes when typing quickly, which made autocorrect far less reliable. The update targets fast typers who saw letters fail to appear, throwing off entire words and confusing predictions. Testing shows fewer garbled phrases and more consistent input, especially when typing at speed. But the broader experience hasn’t caught up. The iPhone keyboard continues to make odd substitutions, adapt poorly to user habits, and miss features that competing keyboards have refined for years. Apple solved the most visible flaw,…

The Washington Post, one of the bastions of traditional legacy media, is losing some 300 journalists due to new funding cuts and a broad corporate restructuring. The cuts amount to about 30 percent of its total number of employees, per The New York Times. Among the sections to close in these cuts was the one focused on book coverage and criticism. Ron Charles, who worked for 20 years as a book critic for the Post, was among the people who were let go, and took to Substack to describe the situation and envision the next steps for his own life…

Microsoft’s recently confirmed Project Helix may sound like a bold new direction for Xbox, but the idea behind it has apparently been in motion for nearly a decade. The company seems to have started exploring the concept of a gaming platform that blends Xbox and Windows as early as 2016. The original plan reportedly aimed to create a system that could bridge the gap between Xbox consoles and Windows PCs, making it easier for games to run across both platforms. Project Helix: A decade-long push to merge Xbox and Windows The early vision for Project Helix appears to have emerged…

Vivo has officially unveiled its latest top-end flagship, the X300 Ultra, and it’s every bit as ambitious as the teasers suggested. The device puts photography front and center, with a camera system that’s clearly designed to rival dedicated cameras rather than competing flagship phones like the Galaxy S26 Ultra. From a massive high-resolution zoom lens to a more versatile focal length setup, Vivo is positioning this as a no-compromise camera phone. What makes the Vivo X300 Ultra stand out? The X300 Ultra is clearly built around its cameras, and Vivo isn’t holding back. The phone features a Zeiss-backed triple-camera setup…