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2 minute read Three engineers spoke up, and now they’re under the microscope So, 3 engineers from Amazon testified in early June before a Seattle City Council subcommittees, backing tighter rules on AI data centers. They even opened their remarks by pointing out they were legally protected from retaliation. Well, turns out investigations by their … Read more
3 minute read The company everyone tried to sue just got handed $400 million instead Remember last year when the entire record industry decided Suno was public enemy number one? Yeah, well, the lawyers are still busy, but the venture capitalists clearly didn’t get the memo. Suno just closed a $400 million Series D at … Read more
3 minute read A goodbye nobody framed as the bigger story On June 8, Tim Cook walked onto the stage at Apple Park for WWDC and a lot of people missed the part that actually matters. This was his final keynote as CEO. He hands the company to John Ternus on September 1 and slides … Read more
2 minute read Brussels Drops the Hammer in Copenhagen On May 12, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stood up at a summit in Copenhagen and basically told social media giants the party is over. She said the harms kids face online are not accidental. They are, in her words, the result of business … Read more
3 minute read The Little Bridge That Could Finally Grew Up So Homebridge has been quietly babysitting our weird non-HomeKit gadgets since 2015, running on whatever sad Raspberry Pi we shoved in a closet. After spending more than three years stuck in beta purgatory, version 2.0 finally went official in early May 2026. If you … Read more
3 minute read The new guy at Berkshire is doing something Buffett never would For sixty years Warren Buffett ran Berkshire Hathaway like a man who broke out into a rash when anything tech dropped. Fast forward to his retirement on the last day of 2025 and he handed the keys to Greg Abel. What … Read more
2 minute read The buzzword that paid your salary is now a dirty word There was a stretch where burning AI tokens like there was no tomorrow was basically the job. It even got a name, “tokenmaxxing.” IT was pretty much a push to torch as many tokens as humanly possible. Climb that leaderboard, look … Read more
2 minute read Rome, What have we done? Ferrari hauled its first electric car out to Rome on Monday like it was the next Mona Lisa. The internet handed it a participation trophy and lit it on fire. The car is called the Luce, Italian for “light,” which is cute, because the lights went out … Read more
3 minute read So that little six-digit code you punch in like a good citizen every time you log into your bank? Yeah, somebody just used AI to walk right past it. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group dropped this news on May 11 and didn’t bury it. They called it a “mass exploitation event,” meaning the … Read more
2 minute read Somewhere between ChatGPT writing your emails and AI generating your coworker’s PowerPoint slides, something quietly broke in the global chip supply chain. The price of everything in your home is going up because of it, and if you want to know what’s already gone up, why it’s happening, and whether there’s any … Read more