Toyota made a game engine
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Toyota made a game engine

Toyota Connected North America showcased its innovative Fluorite game engine at FOSDEM 2026, highlighting its potential for enhancing in-car experiences through 3D tutorials and improved controls. This development positions Toyota as a key player in automotive technology.


What is Fluorite and why did Toyota develop it?
Fluorite is an open-source game engine developed by Toyota Connected North America, built on Flutter, Dart, and Google's Filament 3D rendering engine, primarily for delivering console-grade interactive 3D experiences in vehicle digital cockpits and dashboards. Toyota created it to avoid the high resource demands, complexity, licensing costs of proprietary engines like Unity and Unreal, and the long startup times of Godot, while providing a lightweight, extensible platform tailored for embedded automotive environments.[1][3]
Sources: [1], [2]
What is FOSDEM and what was showcased there regarding Fluorite?
FOSDEM is a community-driven conference dedicated to open source software held annually in Brussels. Toyota Connected North America showcased their Fluorite game engine at FOSDEM 2026, highlighting its capabilities for hardware-accelerated graphics via Vulkan, physically based rendering, and integration with Flutter for in-car experiences.[1][2]
Sources: [1], [2]

09 February 2026

The Verge
It sounds like Apple will continue a positive trend in CarPlay around iOS 27
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It sounds like Apple will continue a positive trend in CarPlay around iOS 27

Apple's next-generation CarPlay, now branded as CarPlay Ultra, is set to receive significant updates ahead of or alongside iOS 27. This development marks a renewed focus on enhancing the CarPlay experience for all drivers, not just Aston Martin users.


What is the difference between standard CarPlay and CarPlay Ultra?
Standard CarPlay projects iPhone apps like Maps, Music, and Messages onto a single screen in the car's infotainment system, while CarPlay Ultra extends across multiple displays, integrates vehicle data such as speed and fuel level, and allows control of car functions like climate and radio with custom widgets and themes tailored to the automaker.
Sources: [1], [2], [3]
What upcoming improvements are expected for CarPlay around iOS 27?
CarPlay is set to gain support for third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini via voice control, building on recent additions in iOS 26 such as widgets, theming, and better AirPods handling, while CarPlay Ultra expands beyond Aston Martin to brands like Hyundai and Kia.
Sources: [1], [2], [3]

09 February 2026

9to5Mac
Technology News

Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise

Discord's new age-inference model may classify users as underage, prompting the need for personal information to verify age. This comes shortly after a data breach involving the company's age verification partner, raising privacy concerns among users.


What exactly does the 'teen-by-default' experience restrict on Discord?
The teen-by-default settings include content filters that blur sensitive content, restricted access to age-gated channels, servers, and app commands, direct messages from unknown users routed to a separate inbox, warning prompts for friend requests from unknowns, and restrictions on speaking onstage in servers unless age-verified as an adult.
Sources: [1], [2]
How does Discord's age verification process work and what are the privacy protections?
Users can verify age via on-device facial age estimation using video selfies that never leave the device or by submitting ID to vendor partners, which are deleted quickly after confirmation. An age inference model may assign ages without verification in some cases, and more options are planned; verification status remains private.
Sources: [1], [2]

09 February 2026

The Register
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