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Democrats Sweep Republicans in Nearly Every Race That Matters
With massive upsets in deep red states and stunning wins in Texas, Democrats have redrawn the political map—and decisively taken the House and Senate.
AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit
CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand
macOS 27.3 includes cool-looking ‘Pro’ screensaver from new touchscreen MacBook Pro
Included in today’s macOS 27.3 beta 1 is a great-looking screensaver featuring an animated version of the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display wallpaper. Watch it below.
Filing: Amazon’s previously announced layoffs include 95 jobs in Washington state
A notice made public Tuesday evening, disclosing about 95 Amazon job cuts in Washington state, is part of the company's previously reported layoffs in its retail business, not a new round of reductions, a company spokesperson confirmed.
‘Stick’ season 2 premieres on Apple TV
Apple TV subscribers can now watch the first two episodes of the new season of “Stick,” starring Owen Wilson (Midnight In Paris), Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus), and Timothy Olyphant (Justified), among others. Watch the trailer below.
AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history
AMD CEO Lisa Su said in the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that Q3 2026 was "was the largest and most profitable in our history." AMD reported a record $13.4 billion in quarterly revenue, and it's predicting it will hit…
All the news about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI, Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The remake, which is releasing 28 years after the launch of the original…
The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today as part of a big…
Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff
No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change
Follow today’s midterm election results with the Apple News Live Activity
With votes now being counted in the US midterm elections, the Apple News app offers a convenient way to follow the results in real time. Here’s how it works.
Eney from MacPaw is an AI assistant with deep Apple integrations
MacPaw, the makers of CleanMyMac and Setapp, have an AI assistant called Eney that’s designed for Apple users. Eney is available across Mac and iPhone and is built to integrate with core Apple services like Mail, Calendar, and Reminders…
Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop
People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I would make a life-changing bet on the market, levered up as…
macOS 27.3 adds native Markdown rendering to Quick Look
Starting with macOS 27.3, users can preview Markdown files with proper formatting directly in Quick Look. Here are the details.
Canva is announcing changes and layoffs affecting 22 percent of its staff
Canva is making significant changes affecting 1,271 people, which is 22 percent of its staff, co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins announced today. "For some people, this will mean changes to their roles or being asked to relocate to…
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x Is Only $900 Right Now
Laptop prices keep going up, but this discount on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x is one of the best deals I’ve seen in months.
Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models’ identity
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California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
State tries to obtain broadband funds despite rejecting Trump admin condition.
Sonos adds new Presets and prepares for the 27voice AI beta
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Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data
Attackers have compromised the update infrastructure for the cPGuard web security suite to distribute a backdoor and a data-stealing script.
Valve is making changes to deal with a ‘significant increase’ in Steam game submissions
In a new post today, Valve acknowledged that it's seen "a significant increase in submissions for store and page review in recent months" and says it's "running a little behind" by taking "up to 12 business days" for reviews instead of the…
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says
Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist
The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer…