Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government

Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump’s team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of … Read more

DeepSeek R1: Why AI experts think it’s so special

DeepSeek R1: Why AI experts think it’s so special

All of a sudden, DeepSeek is everywhere. Its R1 model is open source, allegedly trained for a fraction of the cost of other AI models, and is just as good, if not better than ChatGPT. This lethal combination hit Wall Street hard, causing tech stocks to tumble, and making investors question how much money is … Read more

Save $200 on these Apple MacBook Air or Pro models

Save 0 on these Apple MacBook Air or Pro models

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority All of these offers are available from Amazon. The Apple MacBook Air M2 and MacBook Pro M4 discounts are applied automatically. In the case of the Apple MacBook Air M3, you have to manually apply a coupon before adding the item to your cart. Apple MacBook Air M2 Apple MacBook … Read more

Apple Chips Can Be Hacked To Leak Secrets From Gmail, ICloud, and More

Apple Chips Can Be Hacked To Leak Secrets From Gmail, ICloud, and More

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari browsers as they visit sites such as iCloud Calendar, Google Maps, and Proton Mail. The vulnerabilities, affecting the CPUs … Read more

Biggest Doesn’t Win – O’Reilly

Biggest Doesn’t Win – O’Reilly

January has been notable for the number of important announcements in AI. For me, two stand out: the US government’s support for the Stargate Project, a giant data center costing $500 billion, with investments coming from Oracle, Softbank, and OpenAI; and DeepSeek’s release of its R1 reasoning model, trained at an estimated cost of roughly … Read more

Biden administration puts quotas on global AI chip sales

Biden administration puts quotas on global AI chip sales

On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. AI-accelerating GPU … Read more

Apple Promotes Beats Pill With Valentine’s Day-Themed Ad

Apple Promotes Beats Pill With Valentine’s Day-Themed Ad

Apple is continuing to promote the Beats Pill speaker, today sharing a new Valentine’s Day-themed short ad that uses the cute anthropomorphized “Pill People” characters to highlight battery life. The spot features the red Beats Pill holding up a be mine sign and playing music in a Say Anything-esque scene. The white Beats Pill walks … Read more

Astro Bot, Black Myth: Wukong lead Game Developers Choice Award nominees

Astro Bot, Black Myth: Wukong lead Game Developers Choice Award nominees

The nominees for the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards are here. This year, Astro Bot and Black Myth: Wukong lead the field, while indies like Animal Well made a big splash. The Game Developers Choice Awards take place every year at GDC, directly following the Independent Games Festival awards show. While the latter is focused on … Read more