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I Spent 30 Minutes With Apple’s CEO. Now I Know Why John Ternus Got the Job

The brief ceremony introducing the new Macbook Pro this week was as low-key as the presenter, Apple’s new CEO John Ternus. He stepped onto the low stage at a Los Angeles event space with zero fanfare, said hi, and queued up a video showing the first touchscreen Mac. Then he released the modest crowd of journalists and creators to get hands-on with the new laptop and roam between eye-poppingdemos of music producers, filmmakers, photographers, and fashion designers using the laptop. Ternus, who at 51 is on the younger side of Apple’s top management, has been CEO for less than two months. But this launch and a series of other recent announcements have made one thing clear. With this new guy—if a 25-year Apple veteran could be considered new—it’s all about the products. Perhaps fittingly, the biggest noise of the presentation came when Ternus revealed that the new device restores...

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Graphene Discovery Could Unlock PC Chips 1,000x Faster Than Silicon

With the aid of ultra-fast laser imaging and a novel photoemission momentum microscope, physicists in Germany have successfully filmed light-driven quantum jumps in graphene for the first time. In classical physics and semiconductor environments, electrons are bound to specific energy bands separated by forbidden zones, acting like a regular elevator

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Google Cloud spend caps now generally available

Today, we’re announcing that spend caps on Google Cloud Budgets are generally available. With this release, we’re delivering ways to protect your workloads from runaway costs without risking resource deletion. More importantly, we’re introducing three major updates, directly inspired by your feedback since the initial preview, to

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The three-layer GKE network mystery

Every support engineer has a case that stays with them. The one that comes up at team lunches. The one where, even after it's resolved, you find yourself staring at a packet capture at midnight just to make sure you really understand what happened. This is that case.

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People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’

In a major blow to both the terminally online and the criminally horny, the fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) has temporarily shut down due to a “security incident,” according to an update posted on the site. On October 29, an admin for AO3 posted that the website

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Graphene Discovery Could Unlock PC Chips 1,000x Faster Than Silicon

Google Cloud spend caps now generally available

The three-layer GKE network mystery

People Are Creating ‘Survival Guides’ to Cope With the ‘AO3 Apocalypse’