Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes entire dev team around AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company's engineering organization, which is pivoting the company's focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic...
View ArticleAfter CEO exit, Sonos gets rid of its chief product officer, too
A day after announcing that CEO Patrick Spence is departing the company, Sonos revealed that Chief Product Officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. Bouvat-Merlin has been CPO since 2023. As first...
View ArticleThe Editors weaves Wikipedia’s volunteers into a global suspense tale
Yesterday was Wikipedia Day, celebrating the first edit made to the online encyclopedia on January 15, 2001. It's a tricky kind of celebration because, for many of us, every day is a Wikipedia Day....
View ArticleIntel Arc B570 review: At $219, the cheapest good graphics card
Intel's Arc B580 graphics cards have been its best-reviewed to date, maintaining the aggressive pricing of the old A-series Arc cards with fewer driver bugs, fewer weird performance outliers, and fewer...
View ArticleHome Microsoft 365 plans use Copilot AI features as pretext for a price hike
Microsoft has two announcements for subscribers to its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans today. First, you're getting the Copilot-powered AI features that Microsoft has been rolling out to...
View ArticleGoogle is about to make Gemini a core part of Workspaces—with price changes
Google has added AI features to its regular Workspace accounts for business while slightly raising the baseline prices of Workspace plans. Previously, AI tools in the Gemini Business plan were a $20...
View ArticleiOS 18.3 beta disables news notification summaries after high-stakes errors
Apple released new beta versions of iOS 18.3 to developers and the public yesterday, and one of the changes coming with the new software update will (at least temporarily) disable Apple Intelligence...
View ArticleCamera owner asks Canon, skies: Why is it $5/month for webcam software?
Photography enthusiasts pay a lot for their very powerful cameras. How much more should they pay to put them to much, much easier work as a webcam? However many hundreds of dollars you paid, Canon...
View ArticleTikTok is mostly restored after Trump pledges an order and half US ownership
TikTok disappeared for a portion of the weekend, following a Supreme Court decision that upheld a 2024 federal law requiring the app to cease operations in the US unless it was sold by its Chinese...
View Article“Project Mini Rack” wants to make your non-closet-sized rack server a reality
I have one standard rack appliance in my home: a Unifi Dream Machine Pro. It is mounted horizontally in a coat closet, putting it close to my home's fiber input and also incidentally keeping our...
View ArticleReport: Apple Mail is getting automatic categories on iPadOS and macOS
A report from Mark Gurman in Bloomberg makes the very reasonable suggestion that automatic email categorization in Apple Mail, already present since iOS 18 arrived on the iPhone, is coming to Macs and...
View ArticleApple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in...
Apple has sent out release candidate builds of the upcoming iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3 updates to developers today. But they come with one tweak that hasn't been reported on, per MacRumors:...
View ArticleNew year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent
Today Netflix, the biggest streaming service based on subscriber count, announced that it will increase subscription prices by up to $2.50 per month. In a letter to investors [PDF], Netflix announced...
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Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well
Bambu Lab, a major maker of 3D printers for home users and commercial "farms," is pushing an update to its devices that it claims will improve security while still offering third-party tools...
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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware
Samsung announced the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra at its Unpacked event today. What is different from last year's models? With the phones themselves, not much, other than a new chipset and a wide...
View ArticleWine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator
The open source Wine project—sometimes stylized WINE, for Wine Is Not an Emulator—has become an important tool for companies and individuals who want to make Windows apps and games run on operating...
View ArticleReddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
Reddit is staying out of the current revolt against social media website X and, to a lesser degree, Meta, on its platform. Since Tuesday, hundreds of subreddits have discussed and/or implemented bans...
View ArticleNvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 starts at $1,999 before you factor in upsells from the company's partners or price increases driven by scalpers and/or genuine demand. It costs more than my entire gaming PC....
View ArticleNvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX...
Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears to be winding...
View ArticleWith iOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence is now on by default
As is custom, Apple rolled out software updates to all its platforms at once today. All users should now have access to the public releases of iOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, iPadOS 15.3,...
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