Dreading your RTO commute? Spare a thought for workers in these states
By Amanda Kavanagh As Amazon staff prepare for a full return-to-office on January 2nd, and Bezos-owned The Washington Post begins phasing in its own RTO …
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Apple Intelligence servers with M4 chips are coming in 2025
Apple Intelligence is powered by Apple’s servers with the M2 Ultra chip. A Bloomberg report was the first to spoil this a month before Apple …
Apple acquires popular photo editor Pixelmator
Today, the Pixelmator team, owner of Pixelmator Pro and Photomator apps, announced that Apple acquired them. Here’s what the company wrote in a blog post: …
iPhone 17 redesign and AI could lead to a massive sales boost for Apple
After Apple announced its latest quarter earnings, AAPL shares dropped 2% after hours. It was a good sign that investors don’t expect the iPhone 16 …
Apple posts record-breaking Q4 earnings as revenue hits $94.9 billion
Apple today posted its earnings report for the recent September quarter. When the dust settled, the company posted revenue of $94.9 billion and EPS of …
How to ask your manager for a raise or more PTO
By Amanda Kavanagh Successful salary and PTO negotiations don’t usually happen overnight. Both asks generally require a longer-term strategy of building your case and presenting …
Family sues after teen obsessed with Character.AI commits suicide
Character.AI is a $1 billion AI startup founded by two former Google engineers. After leaving Google to start the company, Character.AI cofounders Noam Shazeer and …
Google has found a new role for the man who broke Google Search
Google has found a new job for Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive largely responsible for running Google Search into the ground over the last four years …
Despite AI advancements, nearly two-thirds of embedded code is still manually written
By Amanda Kavanagh Platform engineering promised us efficiency, the automation of tedious tasks and self-service capabilities, yet recent research shows that 63% of embedded software …
Unpacking the new Prime Video-Apple TV+ partnership, and why I don’t think it’s *that* big a deal
Later this month, subscribers to Amazon’s Prime Video service will be able to sign up for Apple TV+ as a $9.99/month add-on to their Prime …
CNN thinks you freeloaders have enjoyed CNN.com long enough – it’s time to start paying
If you weren’t already aware that this development was in the works, it might have surprised you to see an unfamiliar sight on CNN.com today …
Epic Games sues Samsung and Google for colluding to block competition
Epic Games wants to save all app developers from the bad big tech companies. At least, this is what its CEO, Tim Sweeney, has been …
Rustaceans are in hot demand right now, but why?
By Amanda Kavanagh Artificial intelligence may be touted as taking over large swathes of coding responsibilities, but a new report from QT and Forrester reveals …
I never trusted Sam Altman. I trust OpenAI’s overhyped CEO even less now.
“I get paid enough for health insurance. I have no equity in OpenAI. I’m doing this because I love it.” That was the response to …
EU wants to force Apple’s iPhone to work with third-party smartwatches and other accessories
The European Commission wants Apple to continue complying with the Digital Markets Act by requiring the company to offer “free and effective interoperability to third-party …
5 generative AI startups you need to know about
By Kirstie McDermott A new record was set for VC investments in 2021, in what turned out to be a banner year for venture capital …
EU orders Apple to pay $14 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland
A day after the iPhone 16 event, the European Court of Justice decided that Apple has to pay $14 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland. …
Apple is reportedly considering a major investment in OpenAI
Ahead of iOS 18 integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple wants to invest, alongside Microsoft and Thrive Capital, on the …
Tech workers are now more at risk of burnout compared to a year ago
By Kirstie McDermott According to a new report from Workday, 27% of employees are at high risk of burnout. The figure is based on an …
Mark Zuckerberg now says Meta shouldn’t have complied with White House Covid censorship requests
Free speech and potential censorship are at the heart of two separate tech stories that are dominating headlines around the world as we kick off …
France’s arrest of Telegram’s CEO feels like a warm-up for a much bigger target: Elon Musk
Reaction to France’s arrest this weekend of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has, no surprise, broken along mostly predictable lines — with one side, for example, …
Bad news for remote workers as structured hybrid rises in the US by 17%
By Kirstie McDermott When it comes to job opportunities in the U.S., it is getting harder to find fully remote roles, even within the traditionally …
The music industry is suing 2 hot AI startups. They’ve invoked Taylor Swift in their defense
When the buzzy music startup Suno first launched its AI-based music-creation tool a few months ago — one that allows users to turn simple text …
What the bombshell Google antitrust ruling means for Apple
Today’s ruling by a federal judge that Google is engaging in an illegal search engine monopoly reminds me of a quote from HBO’s The Wire. …
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong is angry that Samsung is copying Apple again
All I needed was a minute with Samsung’s new products in Paris last month to realize how similar the Galaxy Buds 3, Galaxy Buds Pro, …
Delta CEO praises Apple after Microsoft Windows outage cost him $500 million
“When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?” Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian asked in an interview with CNBC …
Apple posts Q3 earnings as revenue hits $85.8 billion
Apple today posted its earnings report for the recent June quarter. When all was said and done, the company posted $85.8 billion in revenue and …
