A federal appeals court has backed a ruling that found Apple in civil contempt for defying an order to open its App Store. However, the court also overturned a key part of the ruling, allowing Apple to potentially charge fees on external payment options.
Google’s Chrome division is experimenting with a new browser called Disco that uses Gemini AI to create custom, interactive mini-apps from user prompts. The project, born from a hackathon, isn’t meant to replace Chrome but to explore a more task-driven web. It’s currently just a prototype in Google
Dell is hiking prices on its commercial laptops and desktops starting December 17, with some configurations costing over $700 more. An internal document shows the increases are directly tied to soaring costs for DRAM and NAND chips, driven by massive AI infrastructure demand. This isn’t just a Dell
The FinOps Foundation has released version 1.3 of its FOCUS specification to standardize cloud cost data. This move targets the expensive, custom integration work companies do to reconcile bills from different platforms.
The new cross-platform file sharing is a nice step, but it’s solving yesterday’s problem. The infrastructure we desperately need now is a unified tracking network to find lost items everywhere.
Employees turning to unapproved AI tools is a loud form of feedback, not disloyalty. The real problem is a tech stack that creates friction instead of removing it. Security risks are huge, but the solution is to build guardrails into platforms people actually want to use.
President Trump has signed an executive order seeking to assert federal dominance over AI policy. The move directs agencies to sideline state laws, setting up a major conflict over who controls the future of artificial intelligence.
The Game Awards world premiere revealed Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, a new action RPG. It’s being directed by Casey Hudson, the legendary director behind Mass Effect and the original Knights of the Old Republic.
The AI infrastructure arms race just got another huge data point. Broadcom has confirmed that AI lab Anthropic is the mystery customer behind a massive $10 billion custom chip order.
For hard real-time systems, predictable storage latency is non-negotiable. A new approach integrates flash management directly into the database kernel, trading a black box for bounded, guaranteed timing. It’s a radical fix for a persistent problem.
