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'Apple Tax is Dead in the USA' The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has almost entirely upheld a scathing April ruling that found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction meant to open up iOS App Store payments in its long-running legal battle against Epic Games. A three-judge panel affirmed that Apple's 27% fee for developers using outside payment options had a "prohibitive effect" and that the company's design restrictions on external payment links were overly broad. The appeals court also agreed that Apple acted in "… 5 key agenticops practices to start building now AI agents combine language and reasoning models with the ability to take action through automations and APIs . Agent-to-agent protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enable integrations, making each agent discoverable and capable of orchestrating more complex operations. Many organizations will first experiment with AI agents embedded in their SaaS applications. AI agents in HR can assist… 15 Best Office Chairs of 2025— I’ve Tested Nearly 60 to Pick Them Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats. Nuclear startup Last Energy raises $100M for its steel-encased micro reactor Last Energy will use the funds to build its 5 megawatt pilot reactor in Texas, which it hopes to turn on next year. Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 years ago Nvidia moves deeper into AI infrastructure with SchedMD acquisition Nvidia has taken a strategic step deeper into the AI software stack with its acquisition of SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, a widely used open-source workload manager for high-performance computing and AI clusters. Slurm plays a central role in scheduling large, resource-intensive jobs across thousands of servers and GPUs, shaping how AI workloads are distributed in modern data centers. “Nvidia … 'Father of Immersion Lithography' warns: Intel's TSMC talent grab invites process tech scrutiny Intel's recruitment of Wei-jen Lo, formerly TSMC's Senior Vice President of Strategy Development, signals an aggressive push by the US IDM to regain process leadership. However, industry veteran Burn J. Lin argues that while high-level talent acquisition is significant, it does not guarantee the ability to replicate TSMC's manufacturing success. Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us Palantir's former IT boss just took over as CEO of Thrive-backed AI MSP platform Former Palantir CIO Jim Siders has departed the company to join Shield Technology Partners as CEO, in a bid he says is meant to bring AI to bear in the sprawling managed services landscape.… Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy In the span of a decade and a half, from 2010 to the end of 2024, the number of data centers in the US quadrupled. The trend is similar worldwide: more data centers, bigger, now or soon. The number of the construction projects of centers over 100 megawatts announced over the last four years total […] |
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