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John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple
Apple SVP John Ternus takes over as CEO from Tim Cook. | AFP via Getty Images For the first time since 2011, one of the world’s most valuable companies has a new leader, as today marks John Ternus’ first day as Apple’s CEO. He’s replacing Tim Cook, who will continue on as the executive chairman … Read more
If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
The team behind Starcloud’s orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you
Dyson is expanding into oral care with its first toothbrush featuring a camera and flossing capabilities. | Image: Dyson Dyson is once again expanding its line of personal care products with a device that focuses on your teeth instead of your hair. As the name implies, the $499 CameraJet is the first electric toothbrush to … Read more
Pakistan Is Moving at Startup Speed on Digital Assets. The World Is Starting to Notice
An under six-month regulatory rollout, 8% budget utilisation and a forward-looking bet on programmable finance are giving Pakistan an unusually different global technology story. For decades, Pakistan’s global technology story has usually been framed around potential: a young population, a large digital workforce and strong adoption, but institutions struggling to keep pace. Digital assets are … Read more
Let’s Build Our Own LLM (Part 1): Tokenization and Data Prep
A few years ago, people noticed that ChatGPT was strangely bad at counting the letters in a word, or at simple tasks like reversing a string. How could a model that writes working code fail at something a child can do? The answer is buried in a step most people never think about. The model … Read more
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Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma
Magna’s investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.
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Agent CX Is the Missing Layer in AI Search
The SEO industry can’t agree on a name for what happens after an AI agent lands on your site. Some call it ASO, Agentic Search Optimization. Others call it ADO, Agentic Discoverability Optimization. Neither term is settled, and neither is a good pick. ASO already belongs to App Store Optimization. ADO has meant Azure DevOps … Read more
I Built a Roguelike That Charges You Steps to Play It
Shipaton 2026, one developer, two months, and a dungeon you have to walk into. To my dearest 12 readers from my last HackerNoon post, I know you 12 must have been on the edge of your seats, losing sleep and unable to focus at work. For that I am truly sorry, but fret no more! … Read more
AI Content Farms Are Growing Faster Than Fact-Checkers Can Keep Up
NewsGuard is currently monitoring 3,749 AI-generated content farms across 16 languages. The figure was, as one would expect, smaller last month and will, of course, be greater next month. The main point is that it has definitely become cheap to publish large amounts of plausible text. The thing that hasn’t changed is that the reader … Read more
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Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year
Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.
Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund
The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly will total around $1 billion.
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a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund
Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new funds to invest in startups.
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The Google TV Streamer now costs $50 more
Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of weeks after Google launched its new … Read more
A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms
Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.
JMGO’s very bright all-in-one projector looks ideal for gamers and sports
JMGO’s Iris Ultra Max 4K 120Hz Google TV projector. | Image: JMGO JMGO’s 4K 120Hz Iris Ultra Max all-in-one Google TV projector is now available outside China. It gets its name from a new dual-iris system that lets it produce an impressive 10,000:1 native contrast, according to JMGO. It boosts the contrast – always an … Read more
PySpark Tips for Production Data Pipelines
If you have spent any time managing data pipelines at scale, you have likely experienced this scenario: your cluster auto-scales up, your cloud bill quietly triples, and a job that used to take twenty minutes suddenly throws an ugly OutOfMemoryError right before the morning executive meeting. In the world of big data engineering, writing code … Read more
FTC lawsuit alleges Amazon has been ‘secretly and systematically’ overcharging for ads
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon for allegedly using a “secret ad surcharge” to drive up prices for ads on its website and app. FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson claims in a blog post on the lawsuit that the higher advertising prices “were largely passed on to American consumers.” According to the … Read more
Using TPC-DS to Compare Cloud Data Engines by Price Performance
Cloud vendors are very good at benchmarks. Every platform has a chart showing why its engine is faster, cheaper, or both. The problem is that those numbers are usually produced under conditions chosen by the vendor. I needed a different kind of answer. I was comparing several cloud processing options for a large data organization, … Read more