TECH NEWS
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5
TECH NEWS
YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all.
TECH NEWS
TL;DR Apple raised AppleCare+ monthly prices by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, extending the wave of memory shortage price increases to services. Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases
TECH NEWS
For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model by scraping millions of songs
TECH NEWS
OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated
TECH NEWS
Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
TECH NEWS
ai and ml One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations How AI will change the way scientific computing is done remains an open question. One relies on ultra-precise double-precision mathematics, while the other is perfectly happy working with 4 bits. On the surface, the
TECH NEWS
Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs — which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve was already discontinuing the battery for the Steam Deck LCD handheld. It would have meant you could no longer just buy a battery from iFixit and install it yourself.
TECH NEWS
Just a month after SpaceX went public, one of the company's key services appears to be experiencing some growing pains at the expense of customers. Starlink, which offers satellite-based internet service, has been the subject of online complaints about network demand fees as high as $1,500. This
TECH NEWS
Another day, another programming language feels the heat from AI. A prominent Haskell-based software platform is shifting new development to Python, with its founder arguing that Haskell's tooling and ecosystem have been slow to adapt to AI-assisted development. “Haskell is in real danger,” warned Scarf founder Avi Press,
TECH NEWS
PAAS AND IAAS Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown Dave Brown, a 19-year veteran of AWS and member of its S-team leadership cabal, is leaving Amazon for
TECH NEWS
The AI buildout is well and truly underway with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leading the charge, having made various deals with companies including Oracle and Nvidia to guarantee the infrastructure needed to train future AI models is installed. But as this ensues, the spotlight has been thrown on how much
