The arrival of a touchscreen MacBook is certain, according to anonymous leaker Instant Digital. Posting on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform, the leaker says a touchscreen MacBook is “100% confirmed.” This is far from the first rumor of a touchscreen MacBook, and it doesn’t give us any better idea of Apple’s timing for releasing … Read More “A Touchscreen MacBook Is ‘100% Confirmed,’ Says Leaker” »
Legal teams that are increasingly relying on AI tools to help generate some of their legal work are doing so at their peril. In a recent Mississippi case in federal court, lawyers on both sides of a dispute over a solar project’s fees were disciplined for using AI software that hallucinated cases or included cases … Read More “Lawyers Are Getting in Trouble for AI-Generated Filings” »
Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencer, she said she’d work to “understand what makes [Xbox] work and protect it.” Now, Sharma and Xbox Studios chief Matt Booty have laid out the many things that are not working for the Xbox brand in a brutal self-assessment … Read More ““This cannot continue”: Xbox leaders lay out “hard truths” behind sagging brand” »
Deployment is the moment when code stops being a developer’s problem and becomes everyone’s. It is the act of taking something that worked on a build server and putting it in front of real users, on real infrastructure, and handling real traffic. For a long time, this moment was riskier than it had any reason … Read More “From Big-Bang to Progressive Delivery” »
The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me. Today, we cover: Anthropic alienates customers with Fable’s data retention and nerf policies. Anthropic’s latest mode, Fable, stores customer prompts and data for 30+ days and performs … Read More “Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?” »
The skyrocketing costs of memory chips are changing the product mix of smartphone makers – cheaper, lower-margin phones aren’t selling so well, while pricier, high-performance models have bigger margins that helped them to absorb the blow. All of this has had an effect on the chipset market for smartphones, reports Counterpoint. MediaTek remains the largest … Read More “Counterpoint: shipments of MediaTek and Qualcomm chipsets decline” »
Apple’s newly announced Siri AI is set to be one of the headline features of iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and watchOS 27. But if you’re in the European Union, there’s a catch: the feature won’t be available on iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch when those updates arrive later this year. The situation has quickly turned … Read More “Will EU users ever get Siri AI? Here’s what Apple and the EU say” »
Introduction The best foldable phone just got better! Honor Magic V6 arrives just in time to push the limits of the foldables with a tougher build, a stronger hinge, cutting-edge screens, top-notch performance, and the largest battery inside a foldable yet. And we get to enjoy all these novelties within the thinnest body to date. … Read More “Honor Magic V6 review” »
After nearly a decade in development, NASA’s next big telescope is almost ready to travel into space. The agency has set Aug. 30 as the launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This places the project approximately eight months ahead of its original schedule and, according to NASA leadership, significantly under budget. “With … Read More “NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Is Ready to Start Its Cosmic Survey” »
Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Following a knife attack in the city on Monday, Musk declared support for Restore Britain, a hard-right populist political party that advocates for large-scale migrant deportation in the UK. He reposted statements … Read More “Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO” »
