(That was not a good day, because the decommissioning procedure involves physically destroying the attached media. Wouldn’t want customer information leaking into the supply chain, naturally.)
HARDWARE
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Intel Surges Amid Pre-Tariff Panic Buying: Wall Street Analysis
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Is Intel riding the pre-tariff panic buying? A flurry of clues as to why Intel is surging, but no smoking gun. And why Dynatrace is your better bet in “observability” than Elastic. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/wall
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Hardware Fails, Software Eventually Works: Tech Reality
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"Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works." — Michael Hartung
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Apple Liquid Glass, Microsoft Xbox handheld, and weekly tech news
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Top stories in tech today: – Apple unveils Liquid Glass at WWDC
– Whole Foods supplier hit by cyberattack
– Microsoft launches Xbox handheld consoles
– Rivian’s new ebike gets the Jony Ive touch – Quick hits on other major news Read more: https://
tech.therundown.ai/p/apple-jumps-
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Future of Private AI: Small Models on Smartphones
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The future of private AI should be in your palm (smartphone). Small models to the win!
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Apple’s Limited AI Features Unveiled at WWDC 2025
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At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off only a handful of AI upgrades, including: —New Live translation for FaceTime, Messages, and calls
—Visual intelligence via screenshots —AI-powered intelligent actions in Shortcuts
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Service Provider Model Speed and Hardware Improvement Considerations
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Nothing so sophisticated – this is simply showing how long the current service providers take to serve their models. As a customer, I like things to be faster. Perhaps in the future they might get better hardware and make them faster, who knows…
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Apple’s Innovation Crisis: AI Devices Replacing iPhones?
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So, should I sell all of my Apple stock? Feels like Apple is just giving up on doing anything innovative. People will soon spend more time using AI than apps. I bet you could replace the iPhone with a new tiny Her like device and people would be happier.
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SmolVLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotics
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SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics SmolVLA is a compact, open-source VLA model built for low-cost training and real-world deployment on consumer hardware, enabling efficient language-driven robot control without sacrificing performance.
