When Rockland County, New York, approved nearly $77 million in tax breaks for JPMorgan Chase’s datacenter expansion in 2024, no one showed up to object. Two years and a whole lot of bit barns in the news cycle later, government watchdogs are calling foul over the project’s lone permanent job. Reinvent Albany, a group focused…
Have you heard? Apple’s Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years leading the iMaker’s business. He’ll become executive chairman and hand the reins over to John Ternus, a senior VP of hardware engineering, effective September 1. You can’t fault Cook’s performance on a pure financial basis. Since he took over, Apple’s stock is up…
It’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to expand its West Texas campus to about 17 gigawatts of behind-the-meter generation capacity. The company’s CEO and co-founder Toby Neugebauer quit suddenly on Friday. Then on Sunday CFO Miles Everson resigned and moved into…
Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users’ sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story keeps changing: First it attributed the publicly exposed info to “intentional behavior” and “unclear documentation,” then threw bug-bounty service HackerOne…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during an American Workforce Policy Advisory board meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, one of the few Republicans with the power to request…
Microsoft’s GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank. The code locker has paused signups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, wrote Joe Binder, VP of product, in a blog post on Monday, in order…
WhatsApp users are getting some new customization features — for a price. According to WABetaInfo, Meta is rolling out a WhatsApp Plus subscription to “a limited number of users,” offering several cosmetic and quality of life perks, including exclusive stickers, different app themes, custom app icons, premium ringtones, the ability to pin up to 20…
Not every Legion Go S model costs nearly double what it did before, but none are anywhere near what they originally cost. The Windows Z1 Extreme model is listed at $1,679.99 now, though it’s “on sale” for $1,049.99. (B&H has it for $1,299.99.) Lenovo didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but I suspect…
Apple has appointed Johny Srouji as its new chief hardware officer, “effective immediately,” according to an announcement on Monday. He is stepping into the shoes of current hardware engineering head John Ternus, who will replace Tim Cook as CEO in September, while Cook becomes the chairman of the board. Srouji joined Apple in 2008 and…
To the Apple community: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share little pieces of your lives with me and tell me things you want me to…