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Monday, August 11, 2025

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Trump softens on Intel CEO after meeting at White House (7)

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Anthropic Claude Memory Update Enables Chatbot to Recall Past Conversations (4)

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xAI Launches Free Grok 4 and Teases Grok 4.20 Update (7)

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Multiple groups exploit WinRAR zero-day vulnerability (6)

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OpenAI rethinks GPT‑5 after users cry foul (7)

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Wikipedia Loses UK Safety Act Challenge in High Court Ruling (6)

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Reddit Blocks Internet Archive's Wayback Machine Access (10) hot

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Apple Seeds Sixth Developer Betas for iOS, macOS and More (28) hot

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Nvidia unveils Blackwell GPUs and agentic AI models at SIGGRAPH 2025 (6)

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GitHub CEO steps down as integration with Microsoft’s AI team begins (9)

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Paramount seals exclusive UFC US rights in a $7.7B megadeal (5)

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Battlefield 6 beta shatters records while sparking gameplay debates (9)

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Ford bets big on radical low‐cost EV production overhaul (19) hot

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Intel CEO Heads to White House Amid Trump Pressure (7)

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iPhone 17 Rumors: Design tweaks and price hike speculation (12) hot

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US Enforces 15% Cut on Nvidia, AMD China Sales Revenue (19) hot

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Apple tests AI-powered Siri for complete app control (8)

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Budget MacBook Rumor: Entry-Level Model Expected With $600 Price Tag (11) hot

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AOL Ends Legacy Dial-Up: Final Curtain for Internet Pioneer (10) hot

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GPT-5 rollout disappoints as users pivot back to GPT-4o (11) hot

In Detail Full day, Monday, August 11, 2025, Timezone: America/Chicago

Intel's CEO has successfully wooed President Trump

Mariella Moon / engadget - It sounds like President Trump no longer thinks Intel's CEO should resign. Trump has revealed on Truth Social that he met with Lip-Bu Tan, Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of the Treasury. He didn't discuss the …

#government #business #trump #intel

Chat GPT Users Want the Old Models Back, Intel CEO Goes to the White House & More | Tech Today video

6 months / cnet / Owen Poole

Trump reverses course on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan following White House meeting, boosting Intel stock

6 months / techspot

Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting

6 months / theregister / Dan Robinson

Forget the White House Sideshow. Intel Must Decide What It Wants to Be.

6 months / wsj / Asa Fitch

Trump reverses position on Intel CEO after White House meeting

6 months / siliconrepublic / Ann O’Dea

Intel's CEO has successfully wooed President Trump

6 months / engadget / Mariella Moon

Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his Cabinet to discuss company's future this week, make proposals next week

6 months / tomshardware

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations

Hayden Field / theverge - On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with Claude before their vacation. Claude searches past chats to read an…

#ai #anthropic #genai #chatgpt

Anthropic Gives Claude a Memory, Emphasizing User Control Over AI Recall

6 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic offers £340k to top AI talent in European hiring spree

6 months / sifted

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations

6 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Claude can now reference past chats, if you want it to

6 months / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Grok 4 Goes Free, Brings Its Viral Photo-to-Video Feature to All

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Grok 4, the latest version of xAI’s chatbot, is now free for everyone — with limits. “The free tier allows a small number of queries per day. Beyond that requires subscription,” said Elon Musk. Paid plans include SuperGrok at $300 per year and SuperGrok H…

#ai #openai #genai #altman

Elon Musk cries antitrust as X & Grok can't compete with OpenAI on Apple's App Store

6 months / appleinsider

Musk threatens 'immediate' legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations

6 months / cnbc

Elon Musk Can’t Control His AI

6 months / gizmodo / Luc Olinga

Elon Musk’s xAI opens Grok 4 access to free tier as GPT-5 backlash grows

6 months / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Elon Musk Makes xAI’s Grok 4 Free, Challenging OpenAI’s Troubled GPT-5 Launch

6 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Grok 4 Goes Free, Brings Its Viral Photo-to-Video Feature to All

6 months / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

xAI is testing Grok 4.20 to take on GPT-5, may launch this month

6 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Researchers have released a report detailing how a recent WinRAR path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in zero-day attacks by the Russian 'RomCom' hacking group to drop different malware payloads. [...]

#cybersecurity #software #infosec #security

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

6 months / arstechnica / Dan Goodin

6 months / bgr

Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks

6 months / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware

6 months / bleepingcomputer / Bill Toulas

Two groups exploit WinRAR flaws in separate cyber-espionage campaigns

6 months / therecord

OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

Will Knight / wired - GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit.

#ai #openai #aiethics #chatgpt

New release of my LLM command-line tool and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models - includes support for the GPT-5 model family and improvements to how tool calling works - you can now save multiple tool configurations in a template! s

6 months / bsky / @simonwillison.net / simonwillison.net

5 Ways OpenAI’s GPT-5 Is Supercharging ChatGPT for Users

6 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Researchers jailbreak GPT-5 with multi-turn Echo Chamber storytelling

6 months / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling

6 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

6 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt

6 months / wired / Will Knight

Sam Altman and the whale

6 months / technologyreview / Mat Honan

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Judge tossed claim but said UK must not "significantly impede" Wikipedia operations.

#uk #judiciary #wikipedia #law

High Court rejects Wikipedia’s challenge to UK online safety laws

6 months / siliconangle / James Farrell

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Not according to Ars Technica: The challenge was that OSA’s categorization is unlawful. Judge dismissed it but said OFCOM and Sec. State must not impede their operations, in other words you can’t ban them. OSA covers more than age verification for porn

6 months / bsky / @coyoteden.bsky.social / coyoteden.bsky.social

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

6 months / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

High Court rejects Wikipedia challenge to UK online safety rules

6 months / betanews / Wayne Williams

Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation

6 months / theregister / Connor Jones

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

Jay Peters / theverge - Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl …

#techpolicy #internet #reddit #privacy

Reddit says its blocking the Internet Archive to stop sneaky AI scrapers accessing its content

6 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Reddit Is Blocking the Wayback Machine From Archiving Posts

6 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine "The Wayback Machine will only be able to index the Reddit homepage"

6 months / bsky / @glenngabe.bsky.social / glenngabe.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/news/757538/...

6 months / bsky / @iheartnoise.bsky.social / iheartnoise.bsky.social

Reddit Is Blocking the Wayback Machine From Archiving Posts

6 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping

6 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

6 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

6 months / engadget / Karissa Bell

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

6 months / theverge / Jay Peters

Apple puts out its sixth developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26

appleinsider - Apple has moved on to its sixth round of developer betas, with new builds available for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.Apple's hardware getting the 26-generation update - Image Credit: AppleThe sixth batch arrives …

#software #apple #ios

Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 6

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

iOS 26 beta 6 adds new ringtones, snappy app launches, and more

6 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

AirPods could soon get Live Translation, iOS 26 beta code suggests

6 months / appleinsider

Live Translation Coming to AirPods

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Here's what the new ringtones in iOS 26 sound like

6 months / appleinsider

Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 6

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

iOS 26 Gets More New Ringtones

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple has moved on to its sixth round of developer betas, with new builds available for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.

6 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Seeds Sixth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Seeds Second macOS Sequoia 15.7 Release Candidate to Developers

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Seeds Sixth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

iOS 26 beta 6 adds new ringtones, snappy app launches, and more

6 months / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

iOS 26: Listen to the new “Little Bird” ringtone and 6 new variants of “Reflection”

6 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

Apple Seeds Beta 6 Of watchOS 26, tvOS 26, And visionOS 26

6 months / bgr

New ringtones and app launch speed-up: What's new in iOS 26 beta 6

6 months / appleinsider

Apple Changes Liquid Glass Again in iOS 26 Beta 6

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

macOS Tahoe Beta 6 Launches With New Apps And A Focus On Gaming

6 months / bgr

Apple Rolls Out iPadOS 26 Beta 6 With Key New Features

6 months / bgr

iOS 26 Beta 6 Now Available As Official Release Nears

6 months / bgr

iOS 26 Gets More New Ringtones

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

iOS 26 Beta 6 Download for iPhone and More Hits Developers

6 months / iphoneincanada / Gary Ng

Apple puts out its sixth developer betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26

6 months / appleinsider

Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Tahoe to Developers

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Seeds Sixth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Seeds Second macOS Sequoia 15.7 Release Candidate to Developers

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple Seeds Sixth watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 Developer Betas

6 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

'Apple Home' is increasingly replacing HomeKit references in beta software

6 months / appleinsider

Nvidia pushes "Physical AI" with new Blackwell hardware and AI models

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - At SIGGRAPH 2025, Nvidia is unveiling a wave of new products, including compact Blackwell GPUs, enterprise servers, and advanced AI models. The goal is to merge simulation and reality for robotics, autonomous systems, and intelligent infrastructure.The ar…

#ai #nvidia #gpu #genai

Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost

6 months / theregister / Tobias Mann

Nvidia pushes "Physical AI" with new Blackwell hardware and AI models

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Nvidia debuts next-gen agentic AI and reasoning robotic models at SIGGRAPH 2025

6 months / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

Nvidia introduces compact Blackwell professional graphics cards — RTX Pro 4000 SFF and Pro 2000 GPUs arrive at SIGGRAPH 2025

6 months / tomshardware

Nvidia unveils 2U RTX Pro 6000 servers at SIGGRAPH — double shot of Blackwell power comes to smaller rackmount form factors

6 months / tomshardware

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

6 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Szkutak

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Steps Down, Platform to Join Microsoft’s CoreAI Division

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, who led the AI push with GitHub Copilot and Spark, is stepping down. The platform will now be integrated into Microsoft's CoreAI division.The post GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Steps Down, Platform to Join Microsoft’s CoreAI Division …

#ai #microsoft

Microsoft to integrate GitHub more closely with its CoreAI unit after key executive’s departure

6 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down

6 months / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team

6 months / tomshardware

GitHub head ankles as Microsoft takes biz by the hand

6 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

It’s interesting that a week after this was posted the CEO resigned www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

6 months / bsky / @annaecook.bsky.social / annaecook.bsky.social

GitHub CEO to step down

6 months / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Microsoft scraps GitHub CEO role, folds platform into CoreAI

6 months / implicator / Robert Brown

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Steps Down, Platform to Join Microsoft’s CoreAI Division

6 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

6 months / theverge / Tom Warren

Paramount seals $7.7bn exclusive US rights deal with UFC - Financial Times

google - Paramount seals $7.7bn exclusive US rights deal with UFC Financial Times

#entertainment #business #us #acquisitions

UFC Streaming Moves to Paramount Plus in Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal

6 months / cnet / Macy Meyer

UFC to End PPV in U.S. with Paramount+ —Will Canada Follow?

6 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Paramount buys UFC rights for $7.7 billion, ending PPV events

6 months / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Paramount Plus will soon become the exclusive home to the UFC

6 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Paramount seals $7.7bn exclusive US rights deal with UFC - Financial Times

6 months / google

Battlefield 6 Beta Eclipses Call Of Duty Player Record On Steam

Darryn Bonthuys / gamespot - Weekends are usually the busiest time for a new game release, and the Battlefield 6 open beta was--fortunately--no exception to that rule. Once the game switched from early access to open beta, the numbers soared and Battlefield 6 reached an impressive pe…

#gaming #entertainment #playstation

Undervolted Zotac RTX 5090 reportedly catches fire during Battlefield 6 session

6 months / tomshardware

What The Hell Is Going On With Video Game Disc Cases? https://kotaku.com/video-game-cases-loose-discs-bf6-resident-evil-persona-spider-man-news-2000616874

6 months / bsky / @kotakudotcom.bsky.social / kotakudotcom.bsky.social

Electronic Arts blocks more than 300,000 attempts to cheat after launching Battlefield 6 beta

6 months / techcrunch / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

What The Hell Is Going On With Video Game Disc Cases?

6 months / kotaku / Zack Zwiezen

Battlefield 6's Secure Boot Wasn't Meant To Be A "Silver Bullet" Against Cheaters EA Says

6 months / gamespot / Darryn Bonthuys

Why Battlefield 6's Aim Assist And Destruction Damage Work The Way They Do

6 months / gamespot / Eddie Makuch

Samoa Joe Shares His Battlefield 6 Impressions--And They Are Highly Relatable

6 months / gamespot / Eddie Makuch

Battlefield 6 Beta Eclipses Call Of Duty Player Record On Steam

6 months / gamespot / Darryn Bonthuys

Battlefield 6 Just Smashed Call Of Duty‘s Player Records In Two Days

6 months / kotaku / John Walker

Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

Kirsten Korosec / techcrunch - The automaker is investing $2 billion into the Louisville Assembly Plant with a $30,000 EV pickup slated for 2027.

#cars #batteries #manufacturing

Ford rebooting and simplifying its EV platform

6 months / mobilesyrup / Brad Bennett

Ford’s Secret Weapon to Beat Tesla Is a $30,000 EV Truck

6 months / gizmodo / Luc Olinga

Called the “Ford Universal EV Production System,” the company will spend $2 billion to set it up at their Louisville assembly plant. “It has 30 percent less fasteners,” says Farley, referring to the bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, clips, and clamps used to p

6 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Yes, much of this is catching up with state-of-the-art stuff for EVs, such as zonal architecture where different functions are controlled in different parts of the car, which you can already see in the new Tesla Model Y and many China EVs.

6 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Ford says the new method of manufacturing will be 40 percent faster than the existing process and will need 20 percent less parts. www.wired.com/story/fords-...

6 months / bsky / @gregwilliams718.bsky.social / gregwilliams718.bsky.social

Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

6 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Ford Launches $2 Billion Investment to Produce Affordable EVs in Louisville — Ford announced a $2 billion investment to transform its Louisville Assembly Plant into a facility that will produce a new generation of low-cost electric vehicles. This strategi

6 months / bsky / @biztoc.com / biztoc.com

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Their *Model T Moment* was just the official announcement of the delay of a vehicle they should have released in 2022. Great stuff.

6 months / bsky / @ammartin.bsky.social / ammartin.bsky.social

This is actually the big rethink-the-car push the legacy automakers needed to have to compete with Tesla, not just slapping iPads in the dashboard. Exciting stuff www.theverge.com/ford-motor-c...

6 months / bsky / @reckless.bsky.social / reckless.bsky.social

Elon getting smoked by the Ford Motor Company, we love to see it, let them fight etc www.theverge.com/ford-motor-c...

6 months / bsky / @jessehawken.bsky.social / jessehawken.bsky.social

“Ford estimates that its new low-cost EVs will have a lower cost of ownership over five years as compared to a three-year-old Tesla Model Y.” Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs #Tech #EV https://www.theverge.com/ford-motor-company/75

6 months / bsky / @warnercrocker.bsky.social / warnercrocker.bsky.social

6 months / bsky / @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Ford is betting the future on smaller EV batteries

6 months / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

Ford's Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars

6 months / wired / Jeremy White

Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

6 months / techcrunch / Kirsten Korosec

$30k Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process

6 months / arstechnica / Jonathan M. Gitlin

Ford is developing a $30,000 midsized EV pickup

6 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

6 months / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expected to visit Trump to address China links — duo tipped to have 'wide-ranging' conversation to address national security concerns

tomshardware - Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, facing pressure from Trump over China ties, will reportedly meet the president to clarify his background and stress Intel’s national security role. Tan, who led Cadence Design, aims to secure support for Intel’s U.S. manufacturing am…

#chips #government #trump #intel

Trump apparently reverses stance on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, hailing his success as an ‘amazing story’

6 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Trump flip-flops on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation

6 months / cnbc

All the pains of Intel: from CPU design and process technologies to internal clashes and political pressure

6 months / tomshardware

Former Intel CEO lays out radical plan to rescue the company — Suggests outing Lip-Bu Tan and asks for $40 billion investment from Nvidia, Apple, and others

6 months / tomshardware

Sequoia's Moritz backs Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after Trump's 'artless bullying'

6 months / cnbc

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expected to visit Trump to address China links — duo tipped to have 'wide-ranging' conversation to address national security concerns

6 months / tomshardware

Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down

6 months / theregister / Dan Robinson

Apple may shift iPhone 17 Pro antennas to the camera bump

appleinsider - The iPhone 17 Pro will change its positioning of antennas to around the camera module as part of its overhaul, if a questionable leaker is to be believed.iPhone 17 Pro - Image Credit: AppleInsiderApple often has to change ways it constructs its products t…

#apple #iphone #gadget #pricing

Analysts expect the price of the iPhone to go up this year

6 months / mobilesyrup / Brad Bennett

iPhone 17 Pro Antennas Could Wrap Around Camera Module

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

iPhone 17 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged New 5G Antenna Design

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

The iPhone 17 Pro will change its positioning of antennas to around the camera module as part of its overhaul, if a questionable leaker is to be believed.

6 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

iPhone 17, the ‘thinnest iPhone ever,’ and everything else we’re expecting out of Apple’s hardware event

6 months / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

iPhone 17 'Likely' To Be More Expensive Than iPhone 16 In The U.S., Analyst Claims

6 months / bgr

iPhone 17 Pro may move its antenna to the giant camera bump for better signal

6 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

iPhone 17 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged New 5G Antenna Design

6 months / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Apple may shift iPhone 17 Pro antennas to the camera bump

6 months / appleinsider

Apple doubles down on all-glass iPhone with wraparound touchscreen

6 months / appleinsider

Apple “Likely” to Raise Prices for iPhone 17, According to Analyst

6 months / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Impress Me, Apple. Make This One Unexpected Change With the iPhone 17

6 months / cnet / Katie Collins

US strikes unprecedented deal: Nvidia and AMD to give 15% of China AI chip sales to Washington

techspot - The unusual arrangement was set as a condition for securing export licenses needed to sell to Chinese customers, according to sources that spoke to the Financial Times. It encompasses the Nvidia H20 chip and AMD's MI308 chip, both crucial for AI applicati…

#china #gpu #us #amd

Nvidia finally got a path back into China—at a price. Reports say the company will share 15% of China H2O chip revenue with the U.S. government. Days later, Chinese state media accused those chips of having "backdoors." Nvidia flat... https://gi

6 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Nvidia, AMD to pay US government 15% of revenue from AI chip exports to China

6 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Trump seeing green as he weighs deal to allow Nvidia Blackwell GPU sales to China

6 months / theregister / Tobias Mann

Trump may allow Nvidia to ship hobbled current-gen Blackwell AI GPUs to China — U.S. gov't would get 15% of related revenue, China firms would get access to far faster GPUs

6 months / tomshardware

Nvidia’s Six-Word Response to China

6 months / gizmodo / Luc Olinga

What to Know About Trump’s Plan to Take 15% of AI Chip Sales to China

6 months / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China https://www.theverge.com/news/757428/donald-trump-nvidia-amd-ai-chip-sales-china #Business #Politics #Nvidia #Policy #News #Tech #AMD

6 months / bsky / @jos1264.social.skynetcloud.site.ap.brid.gy / jos1264.social.skynetcloud.site.ap.brid.gy

Trump says he asked for 20% cut from Nvidia, calls H20 an 'obsolete' chip

6 months / cnbc

Trump strikes “wild” deal making US firms pay 15% tax on China chip sales

6 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China

6 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Nvidia and AMD reportedly sharing 15% of their China GPU revenue in exchange for export licenses — 'unprecedented' export revenue sharing deal may have been struck

6 months / tomshardware

Pay-to-Play? Trump Slaps 15% “Export Tax” on Big Tech’s China AI Chips

6 months / gizmodo / Luc Olinga

U.S. takes 15% of Nvidia, AMD China revenue; GPT-5 stumbles

6 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

6 months / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

What Trump's Nvidia and AMD China deal means for the world

6 months / cnbc

US strikes unprecedented deal: Nvidia and AMD to give 15% of China AI chip sales to Washington

6 months / techspot

Washington Turns China Chip Licenses Into a 15% Toll on Nvidia and AMD

6 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

NVIDIA may give US government a cut of its profits to sell AI chips to China

6 months / engadget / Sarah Fielding

Nvidia and AMD must pay the U.S. a portion of revenue for selling AI chips in China

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version of App Intents, its framework gives developers the ability to allow users acces…

#ai #voice #apple #apps

Insider Reveals How Apple Might Win The AI Race With An Upgraded Siri

6 months / bgr

Apple Is Betting Everything on a Voice-Controlled AI Siri https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-betting-everything-on-a-voice-controlled-ai-siri-2000641286

6 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Siri's New Features May Include Adding Voice Controls to Apps

6 months / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice

6 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Apple Is Betting Everything on a Voice-Controlled AI Siri

6 months / gizmodo / Raymond Wong

Apple apparently scrambling to shut down Siri AI in banking and health apps to dodge another epic fail

6 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice

6 months / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Apple Testing AI Siri That Can Fully Control Apps With Just Your Voice: Report

6 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Cheapest MacBook yet could arrive by year’s end at just $600

Christian Zibreg / idownloadblog - A $600 low-cost MacBook may launch this year, with Apple taking aim at Chromebook users seeking an affordable laptop for work or school. DigiTimes, a Taiwanese trade publication, reported today that at least some components for the rumored machine are...

#hardware #apple #pricing

Apple might launch a low-cost MacBook later this year

6 months / mobilesyrup / Brad Bennett

Apple's new MacBook may start at $599 with 12.9 inch display and iPhone 16 Pro chip

6 months / techspot

Apple May Launch a $599 12.9-Inch MacBook with iPhone Chip

6 months / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Apple's Low-Cost MacBook to Start at $599, Report Says

6 months / cnet / Matt Elliott

Apple's OLED MacBook Pro could be years away, but a cheaper MacBook might land this year

6 months / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

6 months / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

New 12.9-Inch MacBook to Launch As Soon This Year for As Low As $599

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Rumored $599-$699 MacBook could be in the works — 12.9-inch model with iPhone 16 Pro SoC tipped for Q3 2025 production

6 months / tomshardware

Cheapest MacBook yet could arrive by year’s end at just $600

6 months / idownloadblog / Christian Zibreg

Low cost MacBook could launch for $599 in late 2025

6 months / appleinsider

New 12.9-Inch MacBook Debuting As Soon This Year for As Low As $599

6 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

AOL Dial-Up Internet Service to End After 34 Years

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AOL will officially discontinue its dial-up internet service on September 30, pulling the plug on an era that defined early internet access for millions of Americans.Image credit: RetroheadThe Yahoo-owned company announced the shutdown on its support webs…

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6 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Apparently AOL are still running a dial-up service! For another month, anyway.

6 months / bsky / @andrewducker.bsky.social / andrewducker.bsky.social

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

6 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

After 34 Years of Booop-Beep-Beep-Beep-Krsssh-Eee-Brrrrrrr, AOL’s Dial-Up Service Is Finally Shutting Down gizmodo.com/after-34-yea...

6 months / bsky / @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social / jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

AOL Will Pull the Plug on Dial-Up Internet, 34 Years After Its Launch

6 months / cnet / Alex Valdes

After 34 Years of Booop-Beep-Beep-Beep-Krsssh-Eee-Brrrrrrr, AOL’s Dial-Up Service Is Finally Shutting Down

6 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years

6 months / theregister / Richard Speed

AOL Dial-Up Internet to be Shuttered on September 30, After 34 Years of Service

6 months / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

AOL Dial-Up Internet Service to End After 34 Years

6 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

AOL is finally shutting down dial-up

6 months / theverge / Thomas Ricker

Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out

Laura Varley / siliconrepublic - The bumpy launch has resulted in a request by many users to return to previous, more reliable models.Read more: Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out

#ai #openai #genai #chatgpt

OpenAI has responded to criticism that it shipped GPT-5 with token limits to minimize cost and maximize profit not with words, but rather with a new 3,000-per-week limit.

6 months / bsky / @bleepingcomputer.com / bleepingcomputer.com

OpenAI is testing 3,000-per-week limit for GPT-5 Thinking

6 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

OpenAI Backs Down: Legacy Models Return After GPT-5 Backlash

6 months / implicator / Maria Garcia

How To Use GPT-4o In ChatGPT If You Hate The GPT-5 Upgrade

6 months / bgr

How to Re-Enable GPT-4o Model in ChatGPT for Mac

6 months / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

6 months / theregister / Richard Speed

GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed

6 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

The bumpy launch has resulted in a request by many users to return to previous, more reliable models.

6 months / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

How to Re-Enable GPT-4o Model in ChatGPT for Mac

6 months / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out

6 months / siliconrepublic / Laura Varley

How to restore GPT-4o when you've GPT-5

6 months / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

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