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Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store.
The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s co-founder and designer—a revelation to the startup’s CEO, Ben Sandofsky, who learned of it while investigating de With late last year over an unrelated matter. He fired de With in December, and de With announced he had joi
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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A startup cofounder shared a screenshot on X that appeared to show a Slack exchange with an employee who "popped online" on their wedding day. Read more ›
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Ex-Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy wrote that AI power users and skeptics are "speaking past each other." Read more ›
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The Masters' winnings have rocketed since Horton Smith won $1,500 in 1934. Last year's champion, Rory McIlroy, earned 114 times that, when adjusted for inflation. Read more ›
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The latest Gemini feature lets Google's AI generate interactive simulations and models. With this, Gemini can transform your questions and complex topics into custom visualizations directly within the chat. In the past, Gemini would mostly respond to such queries with text with static diagrams. Now, it delivers functional simulations that help you better understand the topic you're inquiring about. Examples Google gives include "rotating a molecule or simulating a complex... Read more ›
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Gmail's end-to-end encryption is now available on all Android and iOS devices, letting enterprise users send and read encrypted emails directly in the app without any extra tools. "This launch combines the highest level of privacy and data encryption with a user-friendly experience for all users, enabling simple encrypted email for all customers from small businesses to enterprises and public sector," Google announced in a blog post. BleepingComputer reports: Starting... Read more ›
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Shudder will soon roll out all seven star-studded seasons of the cult-beloved '90s horror anthology. Read more ›
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The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early results from using the app on Linux: "On Ubuntu, I found 9 system processes making internet connections over the course of one week. […] Read more ›
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America's Big Tech companies may soon learn that saddling up with Donald Trump doesn't tend to work out in the end. As the president sows chaos and distrust around the globe while taking aim at EU tech regulations, Europe is looking for ways to adopt its own alternatives. The latest example is France, which said it's dropping Microsoft Windows in favor of Linux.On Wednesday, France said (via TechCrunch) it plans... Read more ›
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Google has announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Gmail on Android and iOS is now rolling out for its enterprise users. Emails that require E2EE in Workspace can be composed and read within the Gmail app, so eligible users won’t need additional apps or portals. The new feature expands Google’s client-side encryption (CSE) offering, a little more than a year after E2EE was introduced to Gmail on the web. According... Read more ›
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David Heinemeier Hansson said that senior developers are best suited to seize this agentic AI moment. Read more ›
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Если вы ведете несколько проектов одновременно, вы знаете проблему управления информацией. Мысль пришла в голову — записал куда-то. Через месяц пытаешься вспомнить: где это было? Сохранил в папке где-то на компьютере? В заметках телефона? В рабочем чате или личных сообщениях?Если не нашел — идея ушла. Или осталась, но найти её — отдельный квест и потеря времени, которое хотелось бы потратить с пользой, а не на поиски.Со мной так происходило постоянно.... Read more ›
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Gas prices might be affecting more than just your daily commute soon: Amazon is instituting temporary extra fees for fuel and other transportation costs. Read more ›
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Here are the stars we lost this year, including James Van Der Beek, Catherine O'Hara, Nicholas Brendon, Chuck Norris, and Jesse Jackson. Read more ›
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There’s a story we tell ourselves about productivity. It goes like this: output equals effort. The harder you work, the more you accomplish. If you want to do more, you need to push more. It’s a compelling story. It’s also wrong. Because the people I’ve met who are doing their most meaningful work in their ... Read more Read more ›
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Norse Atlantic Airways offers affordable flights from the US to major European cities like London, Paris, and Rome. The trip was worth the price. Read more ›
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Eufymake E1 is a personal 3D-texture UV printer made to expand the creative capabilities of its user without breaking the bank. Read more ›
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Sarah J. Maas is releasing two new "A Court of Thorns and Roses" books, which will also connect to her "Crescent City" and "Throne of Glass" series. Read more ›
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OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, is taking “several weeks” of medical leave, according to an internal memo seen by The Information. Simo suffers from a chronic condition called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome which has led her to primarily work from her home in southern ... Read more ›
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Near the corner of Sixth and Market streets in downtown San Francisco, Frontier Tower has become a 15-story haven for the wildest and weirdest thinkers in technology. Floor 11 is full of longevity and health tech enthusiasts. The crypto folks are a floor above, with a lounge full of expensive furniture. AI is on floor 9. And the big event there this weekend is down on floor 8, where a... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A familiar Silicon Valley foe is the mastermind behind those explosive chatbot lawsuits• Tech Culture: San Francisco’s mecca for mad scientists eyes global expansion • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Idiot,” “Dune Messiah” and “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”Many, many, many people have had much to say in the last several days about OpenAI buying TBPN,... Read more ›
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For much of the last decade, the number of new apps launching in Apple’s App Store each year went into a tailspin, falling a whopping 48% between 2016 and 2024, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower. At least that was the case until last year. In 2025, the number of new apps that showed up in the App Store globally suddenly exploded, growing 30% to nearly 600,000 compared... Read more ›
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Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief financial officer, has voiced concerns that reflect the tensions and risks inherent in the CEO’s extraordinarily ambitious plans. Read more ›
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The first quarter is over, and tech earnings season is only a couple of weeks away. Here’s something worth thinking about: Big tech stocks out of favor with investors—particularly Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms—need to show something striking when they report for the quarter if they want to get out of the doghouse they’re in.If they don’t, sentiment is likely to become even more negative. In the next few months,... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar are diverging over the company’s timeline for an initial public offering as Altman pushes for a public debut as early as the fourth quarter, The Information reported. Friar has privately expressed concerns that the AI startup will not be ... Read more ›
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Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”—or, even better, “Token Legend.” The rankings, set up by a Meta employee on its intranet using company data, measure how many tokens—the units of data processed by AI models—employees are burning through. Dubbed “Claudeonomics” after the flagship product of AI startup Anthropic, the leaderboard aggregates... Read more ›
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Forget all the chatter about which AI coding tool is winning the race. The companies behind the leading AI coding tools are learning the benefits of peaceful co-existence. On Thursday, for instance, Cursor announced a new version of its app designed for coding with AI agents from different coding providers simultaneously, including Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. OpenAI, meanwhile, last week released a software “plugin” that gives Claude Code... Read more ›
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SpaceX executives say its Starlink Mobile direct-to-cell service offered through mobile carriers will eventually reach hundreds of millions of customers around the globe, which would help justify SpaceX’s valuation. But right now, the service’s revenue is tiny. T-Mobile, for instance, SpaceX’s only mobile partner in the U.S., is offering its customers access to Starlink Mobile in exchange for paying SpaceX a total of around $100 million as it hits service... Read more ›
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