Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most
…Every year of Apple Silicon, the experience of using a Mac has gotten better. Every year of Windows 11, the experience of using a PC has gotten worse. Right now, with supply…
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Allbirds shoe company moving to AI infra is the top
…On Wednesday, Allbirds, a venture-backed company that made woolen shoes for Silicon Valley hipsters and went public in 2021, announced that it was pivoting to AI infrastructure and changing its name…
Claude Code has become dumber, lazier: AMD director
…A GitHub issue was filed on Friday by user stellaraccident. That user's Github profile and a related LinkedIn post identify the poster as Stella Laurenzo, the director of the AI group…
RSS dulls the pain of the modern web
…That started to change a couple of years later: in 2007, Mountain View introduced Google Reader , an online RSS aggregator. Accessible from any computer, it let users pull together all their RSS…
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price
…Until this release, IntelliSense and Copilot suggestions could appear simultaneously , confusing users about what keys like Tab will do and causing cognitive overload. A solution is to disable Copilot, but for those…
Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics
…Not all tokens are created equal With modern hardware, it'd be fairly trivial to maximize token throughput at the expense of individual user experience. "It's not one size fits all…
Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months
…Others wonder whether users really want a foldable device like the Galaxy Z TriFold. Gartner analyst Ranjit Atwal told The Register : "With foldables projected to capture less than 10 percent of the…
Yahoo Japan’s consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one
…That cloud needs to operate at significant scale, because its services like the LINE messaging app and the Yahoo portal have around 300 million monthly users. Late last week, the company revealed…
Chatbots excel at manipulating people into buying things
…is tailored to users' preferences and profiles," he said. "This is substantially different from, and potentially far more effective than, any traditional static system." Salvi said the experimental results show that disclosure…
Claude Code's source reveals extent of system access
…Users are prompted when there's a "dangerous setting change," but the definition of that term follows from Anthropic's code and thus could be revised. Routine changes (permissions, .env variables, feature…