Tim Hardwick: Apple’s iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system’s internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow Leopard Mac update years ago, and will involve removing old code, […]

Howard Oakley: [Y]ou’ll then be invited to choose from the available diagnostic suites according to your Mac’s hardware, from: Mac Resource Inspector, to test the main Mac hardware over a period of 1-7 minutes; Display Anomalies, for any built-in LCD panel; Keyboard, only when built-in; Trackpad, only when built-in; Touch ID, for any built-in Touch […]

Financial Times:
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; source: Meta's in-house AI chip strategy has suffered technical challenges  —  Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware

Gallup will stop tracking presidential job approval ratings after 88 years, saying the decision reflects “an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.” What do you think?

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LIVIGNO, ITALY—In what has become the central focus of his primetime broadcasts night after night, NBC sportscaster Mike Tirico has devoted huge swaths of Winter Games coverage this week to demanding answers from Olympic athletes about what happens to their old drug-test urine. “Madison, Evan, everyone’s talking about the judging controversy that cost you gold, […]

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