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Hear me out: what if our outrage over an apparent AmazonKindle Software update and DRM for ebooks is wildly overblown? I'm not talking about the recent Kindle update that reportedly strips away the ability to remove DRM (Digital Rights Management) from downloaded books. While you might argue that
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* Sudan's army has destroyed at least six Chinese-made CH-95 drones since June 2026 * The Akıncı costs roughly $25 million, twelve times more than the CH-95 * Armed drones are now the leading cause of civilian deaths in Sudan Sudan's civil war has continued since April 2023, when
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From the collection Build Mode 4:32 PM PDT · August 20, 2026 43 min Loading the player… Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and
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I was delighted to get Hibiscus (otherwise known as hot pink), but there’s also a more subtle Pistachio (warm green), and the usual Frost (white) and Obsidian (black). I’m sad they cut Indigo (surely everyone’s favorite from last year). Like Apple, Google seems to save the fun
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HP might not be ready to bring any new gaming laptops or desktop computers into the fray just yet, but it debuted a healthy heaping of new peripherals under its HyperX gaming brand to keep casuals, hard-core gamers and streamers happy. HyperX announced its first open-back headphones and most lightweight
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A lawsuit has been filed against the well-known smart ring brand Oura, alleging the company used false advertising by deceiving users about the accuracy of its AI-generated sleep tracking. The suit, filed Thursday by Clarkson Law Firm in San Francisco, seeks class action status and a jury trial. “Oura built
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v 1.27 expands generics to support methods The keepers of the Go programming language on Wednesday released the latest version, v1.27, and with it come considerable advances in generics. In a nutshell, generics allow developers to write logic where data types are treated as variables, eliminating the need
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Google is investigating an issue that some Android devices are encountering when trying to use RCS messaging. According to Reddit threads and Android-focused websites, some people switching to new devices, most commonly smartphones from Samsung, or who are switching carriers, are encountering error code 3100, a connection error, when using
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Until both OpenAI and Anthropic get close enough to their planned IPOs to release their financials, we have to look to other sources for signs of how well their businesses are doing. One of those sources, Ramp, the corporate credit card and expense management company, has just released some surprising
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* US Air Force buys banned DJI drones to train against likely hostile aircraft * F.E. Warren base will use DJI aircraft for counter-drone security drills * RIZER software will isolate the DJI drones before they enter training The US Air Force plans to buy DJI drones for counter-drone training at F.
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Infrastructure costs and cybersecurity threats are rising simultaneously and dramatically, yet executives must still demonstrate both fiscal discipline and cyber resilience. Instead of approaching these challenges as separate objectives measured by different metrics, organizations should optimize for risk reduction per dollar spent, not independent cost reduction or security expansion. This
