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Intel, Oracle, IBM join growing list of firms objecting to OKX–ICE tokenized stock plans

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400

“Under the framework, venues must notify issuers and give them 30 days to object before offering tokenized versions of their shares.”

Nvidia discusses $2,000-per-GPU annual fee for software that 'runs agents on AI factories'

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:55:00 -0400

“At $2,000 per GPU each year, Nvidia would bring in $10 billion annually if five million GPUs were covered by paid licenses.”

Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:18:00 -0400

“Within the sample it retrieved, it took adult projects at the same rate as everything else.”

How Expedia Rigs Travel Markets and Raises Your Hotel Prices

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:16:00 -0400

“The commission is baked into every distribution channel.”

Nintendo Loves You: No Plans To Abandon Physical Media Because 'Fans Enjoy It'

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:11:00 -0400

“There is a big enough percentage of the gaming public that likes to buy something physical, for all kinds of reasons. Ownership rights are far more robust that way (for now).”

CSS-Tricks has a new owner!

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:08:00 -0400

“CSS-Tricks is an independent site once again!”

Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:30:00 -0400

“Tesco says that during negotiations, VMware made an offer that represented a 175 percent price increase.”

AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:15:00 -0400

“AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgment.”

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:30:00 -0400

“If we make the dog safer, make it healthier, make it perform better, it’s going to perform better in the line of duty.”

Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:20:00 -0400

“The U.S. is an unreliable security and technology partner willing to throw any partner under the bus.”

BYD expands EV shipping fleet as wars upend freight costs and key trade routes

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:36:00 -0400

“Renting a car carrier with capacity of about 6,500 cars now costs $95,000 a day, up from $50,000 in February”

SpaceX in Talks to Access 80,000 Cell Sites for Wireless Network

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:21:00 -0400

“SpaceX aims to secure a minimum of 80,000 cell sites across the US, and it’s in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure company to reach that goal, according to people familiar with the matter.”

A farewell to Arc

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:34:00 -0400

“Arc is sunsetting on December 22, 2026.”

Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:55:00 -0400

“The most recent nuclear power plants built in the U.S. suffered from egregious budget overruns and slipped timelines.”

A benchmark map of the US economy

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:48:00 -0400

“This makes it very hard to know how good AI models are at the work Americans actually do.”

Sling TV Drops Innovative Streaming 'Day Passes' After Disney, Warner Bros Sued

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:45:00 -0400

“It’s an unfortunate end to a rare bit of actual industry creativity.”

Is CoreWeave's Tapestry of Debt Unraveling?

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:05:00 -0400

“CoreWeave’s credit swaps were priced at a nerve-rattling 60% chance of default on Thursday, according to ICE Data Services.”

Palantir's record breakout unravels as software stocks shed $260 billion

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:13:00 -0400

“The victory lasted three trading sessions.”

HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:09:00 -0400

“Within two to three years, we’ll have no issues that require humans.”

Published Version Update in App Stores

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:44:00 -0400

“Some future components will be published under the commercial license and will exist only in that build.”

New York Plans Stronger Sports Betting Regulation to Curb Gambling Addiction

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:42:00 -0400

“The industry is on notice by me and this commission that they need to solve this problem,”

Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:40:00 -0400

“Marketplace transactions are processed through a separate billing pipeline associated with the third-party publisher.”

US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:20:00 -0400

“Our message to Microsoft is: You’re a great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers,”

SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:18:00 -0400

“Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.”

Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400

“Shared storage helps ensure that one person doesn’t run out of space while other members have unused storage available.”

Pirate App MovieBox Passes 300 Million Downloads as Rightsholders Alert EU

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:59:00 -0400

“MovieBox has been closely linked to the Transsion / Transsnet ecosystem.”

Abstract Warfare: How TSMC Made Its Own Market

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:54:00 -0400

“They do it by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on, not their competitors’ products.”

Disloyalty

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400

“These were identical trips, loaded via identical referrer URLs.”

As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:59:00 -0400

“In the first half of 2026, Insta360’s net profit dropped by 94% compared with a year ago.”

Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:09:00 -0400

“For an industry hoping AI would help sell more PCs, that’s quite the result.”

The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:06:00 -0400

“The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components.”

Deno is joining Cloudflare

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:04:00 -0400

“Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development.”

The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:55:00 -0400

“The 173 million sub-$100 smartphones shipped globally last year are disappearing, with shipments falling almost 60% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, according to IDC.”

Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:35:00 -0400

“This agreement not only demonstrates the value of Huawei’s innovations, but also recognizes Qualcomm’s foundational contributions.”

BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:30:00 -0400

“This is a genuinely unprecedented situation, where millions of citizens and businesses were at risk if TalkTalk had collapsed.”

With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial.

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:36:00 -0400

“Americans overwhelmingly hate data centers.”

RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:54:00 -0400

“We do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance.”

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:51:00 -0400

“Public API access will also end by March 2027, which will impact any tools that used it for programmatic access to Reddit conversations.”

Awkward: Saudi Arabia's new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:27:00 -0400

“Combined, their full-capacity targets are roughly 10 times what the domestic market can plausibly absorb near-term.”

I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:18:00 -0400

“Take a loss? Now take a beat.”

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:17:00 -0400

“For qualifying devices purchased today whose 10-year support lifecycle extends beyond 2034, Google is committed to supporting your transition to Googlebook OS.”

Soaring U.S. diesel prices slam local communities as fuel costs surge

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:15:00 -0400

“One Georgia food bank said it will spend an extra $100,000 this year on diesel, money that otherwise would have gone to feed families.”

Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:13:00 -0400

“Meta has a unique role to play because it is bringing together advanced models and leading agents with a proven track record of helping millions of advertisers and hundreds of millions of businesses scale.”

Gouged

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:11:00 -0400

“Every scam to make you pay more has a mirror-image scam that ensures you are paid less.”

Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:38:00 -0400

Microsoft is “currently unable to provide a list showing which data may have been deleted or whether any data was deleted at all.”

South Korea's AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America's AI boom

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:24:00 -0400

“Nvidia’s allocation decisions are still the predominant factor determining high-bandwidth memory market share.”

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:35:00 -0400

“When Google fucks up, there is absolutely nothing I can do.”

DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:30:00 -0400

“DraftKings is using its customers’ betting records to train a machine learning model to find losing gamblers.”

Waymo is scaling fast: Here's what the fleet data shows

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:20:00 -0400

“The Ojai is supposed to drive down costs and ultimately help Waymo reach profitability.”

No grades, no tests, no degree: Andreessen Horowitz launching SF academy for 'builders'

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:02:00 -0400

“The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era.”