Apple Can Now Charge Fees on Outside App Payments
Apple has won a significant modification to the Epic Games injunction. The court now says Apple can charge a fee for purchases made via external links, but the rate must be determined.
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Earnings and Jobs: A Huge Week for Markets
According to The Wall Street Journal, the week of February 2nd is stacked with major financial events. Earnings season continues with Alphabet and Amazon reporting…
Tesla Stock Jumps on Musk Merger Buzz
According to Reuters, shares of Tesla jumped nearly 5% on Friday, January 30th, after reports surfaced of merger talks within Elon Musk's empire. SpaceX is…
Apple Almost Picked Claude Over Google for Siri, Says Report
According to MacRumors, citing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on the TBPN podcast, Apple was initially planning to rebuild its Siri assistant around Anthropic's Claude AI model.…
Windows 11 Tiling Managers That Are Way Better Than Snap Layouts
According to XDA-Developers, power users tired of Windows 11's basic Snap Layouts have at least four superior third-party options for true tiling window management. These…
US Pushes Allies on Rare Earth Price Fix to Counter China
According to Bloomberg Business, a senior Trump administration official, Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg, says the US will seek a consensus with allies on…
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Forget the CAIO, You Need an AI “Magician”
According to ZDNet, there's a major debate over who should own AI strategy, with 60% of companies already having a Chief AI Officer and another…
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X’s New “Edited” Image Labels Are a Mess Waiting to Happen
According to TechCrunch, Elon Musk has teased a new feature for X that will label "edited visuals," resharing an announcement…
Why 95% of AI Projects Fail and How to Actually Scale Them
According to VentureBeat, organizations are stuck in "proof-of-concept purgatory" with AI, with MIT research estimating a staggering 95% of enterprise…
Meta Pulls the Plug on Teen AI Chatbots
According to Futurism, Meta announced on Friday that it is cutting off teenagers' access to its AI chatbot characters, starting…
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Apple Might Drop Two MacBook Pro Upgrades This Year. Seriously.
According to Mashable, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is planning not one, but two separate MacBook Pro upgrades in 2026. The first wave, expected…
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Earnings and Jobs: A Huge Week for Markets
According to The Wall Street Journal, the week of February 2nd is stacked with major financial events. Earnings season continues with Alphabet and Amazon reporting…
Teens are using AI chatbots way more than you think
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals a massive generational shift in tech use. Almost a third of American teens are using AI chatbots every single day, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT holding a commanding lead.
Mullvad VPN Drops OpenVPN, Goes All-In on WireGuard
Mullvad VPN has officially retired OpenVPN support in its desktop application. The move pushes all users to WireGuard, with the older protocol set to be completely shut down in early 2026.
The Grid Can’t Handle AI. We Need a Formula 1 Pit Crew.
The AI boom is colliding with an outdated U.S. power grid. According to a Schneider Electric executive, this could lead to a 175-gigawatt capacity shortfall by 2033, equivalent to powering 130 million homes. The solution requires a radical new strategy for speed.
Webb Telescope Finds Atmosphere on a “Wet Lava Ball” Super-Earth
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet. The planet, TOI-561 b, is an ultra-hot super-Earth with a dayside temperature of 3,200°F, cooler than expected, hinting at a volatile-rich, thick atmosphere.
NVIDIA’s Old GPUs Get a Final Linux Driver Showdown
A new benchmark pits NVIDIA’s proprietary 580 Linux driver against the open-source Nouveau stack for graphics cards from the aging GTX 980 to the new RTX 5080. The results highlight a major driver support gap for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs. This comes as NVIDIA’s latest 590 driver series drops support
TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year is a group of AI CEOs
TIME Magazine has broken from tradition, naming a group of tech CEOs its 2025 Person of the Year. The “Architects of AI” includes figures like OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, highlighting their immense influence on global competition and policy. The choice reflects a year where the de
Cisco’s 25-Year Comeback Is a Warning for Nvidia
Cisco Systems’ stock finally surpassed its dot-com bubble peak after 25 years, eight months, and 13 days. The parallel to Nvidia’s current AI-fueled rise is too obvious—and potentially ominous—to ignore.