Month: June 2025
The Steve Jobs Archive shares stories, videos, and notes of his famous commencement speech
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement speech, and the Steve Jobs Archive has marked the occasion by uploading an HD version of the speech, publishing notes Jobs emailed to himself, and sharing details about the leadup to the speech. You can see everything on a…
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Google Cloud outages: Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and more were down for hours
Google Cloud experienced outages today that led to disruptions for many online services. Reports of issues for Google products and others began around 2 PM ET. The company was able to restore function to its own apps, but several other businesses have continued to experience problems for some users. In…
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It could be 2026 before all your Thread border routers work together
There’s finally some good news for anyone battling multiple Thread networks while using Matter devices in their smart home — as long as you’re the patient type. According to Matter Alpha, the tvOS 26 beta announced at WWDC this week adds Thread 1.4 to Apple TVs. And, as Apple’s smart…
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Trump’s protest threats raise surveillance alarms around his military parade
President Donald Trump’s warning that protesters of Saturday’s US military parade in Washington, DC, will be met with “very heavy force” threatens to chill speech and underscores the need for protesters to take precautions around digital surveillance, privacy advocates tell The Verge. In remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday,…
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A system inspired by the human brain has quietly been activated at a US nuclear lab, and it has no operating system or storage
SpiNNaker 2 supercomputer operates without disks or an operating system for unmatched speed Sandia’s system uses 152 cores per chip to mimic the parallelism of the human brain With 138,240 terabytes of DRAM, the SpiNNaker 2 relies entirely on memory speed A new computing system modeled after the architecture of…
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Apple’s upgraded Siri might not arrive until next spring
Apple is aiming to launch the upgraded Siri that it originally previewed at WWDC 2024 in spring 2026 with iOS 26.4, according to Bloomberg. At WWDC last year, Apple showed off how Siri would be able to do things like understand your personal context or take actions based on what’s…
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