Speaking of tariff refunds, here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — each of which have or are expected to receive massive rebates from the Trump Administration for tariffs paid last year — to provide…
Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words they are written with rather than by anything they were told to look for: eight ways of writing,…
We are joined by distinguished guest Jason Howell from the All About Android podcast/TWiT network. Adam, Jonathan, and Jason discuss Google I/O and the feeling from the floor. Exciting, or just a bit ho-hum? We look at all the new features dropping in Android Q Beta 3, and we get surprising news about the Samsung…
Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved fussy configuration of Mac OS emulators or vintage hardware. Even then, no single emulator or…
Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal court alleges that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped his authority when he designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain…
Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We tried absorbing the cost for a while, but that was financially difficult for a small company…
The LG G8 Thinq has landed. The phone has a beautiful but unremarkable design. It’s powerful and fast and a flagship in every sense. Plus, the LG G8 Thinq adds a few other tricks like Air Motion to the mix. Is this the next generation of flagship phone? Or is this another gimmick by a…
Adam, Jonathan, and Joe break down the latest processors from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 665, 730, and 730G. Oppo released a new phone with some curiously familiar technology in the camera department. Sharp and Samsung are both pushing the limits of smartphone design with two new phones that will knock your socks off! Tech We Like:…
The Samsung Fold is in the wild, but so far, it hasn’t gone well. But is that necessarily Samsung’s fault? We’re not so sure. Some of the issues were easily correctable. Others, not so much. Plus, Apple falls under Qualcomm’s dominance, begging the question – is there a monopoly brewing in the land of 5G?…
Apple today announced an all new lineup of Mac Mini (M6 and M5 Pro) and Mac Studio (M5 Max and M5 Ultra) desktops. The Apple Newsroom announcements for Mac Mini and Mac Studio only note base model prices. Here’s my attempt to put all of the RAM/SSD configurations into condensed tables, so you can see…