[ad_1] In August 2025, I wrote about AWS deleting my 10-year account without warning. Then I wrote about the one human who restored it. Tarus Balog, a 20-year open-source veteran who escalated my case to a Severity 2 ticket, got the CEO’s attention, and proved that even inside a machine the size of AWS, one … Read More “AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn” »
[ad_1] Xiaomi is unveiling the 17T and 17T Pro this week, on May 28, before taking the former to India next month. We’ve already seen the duo in some premature retailer listings, and today it’s more of the same. This time around, the listings come from Saudi Arabia. We’ll start with the prices, though as … Read More “Xiaomi 17T and 17T Pro show up in more premature retailer listings” »
[ad_1] Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Ask anyone running a home lab, and they’ll tell you that it is a constant cycle of excitement around discovering cool new services, and eventually, maintenance fatigue. It starts simply enough with a single service, but before you know it, your Synology NAS is running dozens of Docker containers … Read More “I use Telegram to manage my Docker home lab” »
[ad_1] TL;DR Some Retroid Pocket 5 owners have reported a crack appearing on their handheld. The crack seems to appear near screw holes, suggesting that over-tightened screws are to blame. This news comes a while after the firm’s Pocket Flip 2 was plagued by cracked hinges. Retroid makes some fantastic Android handhelds, but the firm’s … Read More “Retroid Pocket 5 owners report that their handhelds are cracking” »
[ad_1] Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. This issue consists of a lengthy essay based on a speech I recently gave, and a fictional story attempting to think through what a positive singularity might … Read More “Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story” »
[ad_1] During a keynote in Shanghai at the International Symposium of Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Huawei revealed some of the advancements the company made in the past six years, talked about a new architecture that would solve current chip manufacturing constraints and even proposed a new scaling law to replace the dated Moore’s Law. Moore’s … Read More “Huawei to produce 1.4nm chips by 2031, comes up with a new scaling law for semiconductors” »
[ad_1] Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has released the second One UI 9 beta for the Galaxy S26 series just two weeks after the first, moving significantly faster than the One UI 8.5 rollout. The 1,680MB update (firmware ZZEQ) includes the June 5, 2026, security patch and fixes key issues involving the lock … Read More “Galaxy S26 series gets second One UI 9 beta release” »
[ad_1] The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems, is hosted twice a year at the United Nations in Geneva. When Branka Marijan attended in November 2017, she thought the five-day sessions — which dealt largely in hypotheticals, speculating on a world where warfare was fought with killer … Read More “AI warfare is already here” »
[ad_1] When selecting a home security system, the first decision to consider is usually whether you want a DIY or a pro system. Since you’re here, you’ve probably already decided to go the DIY route, so here are some more parameters to consider when shopping around for home security systems. Equipment and installation Do you … Read More “Best DIY Home Security Systems of 2026: Installed and Tested” »
[ad_1] E-commerce logistics company Stord has raised a $250 million round at a $3 billion valuation, it announced Tuesday. This doubles its valuation from a year-ago round. The new funding was led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G Squared, and Bond. Stord was founded in 2015 … Read More “Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation” »
