Tech Leaders Support California Bill to Stop 'Dominant Platforms' From Blocking Competition A new bill proposed in California "goes after big tech companies" writes Semafor. Supported by Y Combinator, Cory Doctorow , and the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future, it's called the "BASED" act — an acronym which stands for "Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant platforms." As announced by San Francisco state representative Scott Wiener, the bill "will restore competition to the digital marketplace by prohibiting any digital platform with a market capit… Why Apple Temporarily Blocked Popular Vibe Coding Apps An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech-news blog Neowin: Apple appears to have temporarily prevented apps, including Replit and Vibecode, from pushing new updates. Apple seems bothered by how apps like Replit present vibe-coded apps in a web view within the original app. This process virtually allows the app to become something else. And the new app isn't distributed via the App Store, but it still runs on the user's device... [S]uch apps would also bypass the App Store Review pro… Apple hosts 50th anniversary celebrations around the world Apple kicked off celebrations in New York for its 50th anniversary and will continue commemorating the milestone throughout the month. This Is Considered The Top Smart Watch Brand In Terms Of Customer Satisfaction Smartwatches are expensive, so knowing customer ratings before you buy matters. A recent survey compared major brands to see which owners felt happiest. Nvidia overhauls the data center for OpenClaw era Remembering the classic data center during a keynote at GTC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “it used to be … for files. It’s now a factory to generate tokens.” Those old buildings are gone, replaced by mega installations powering AI. At GTC, Nvidia laid out a forward-looking data-center architecture with new chips, storage and networking technologies. Nvidia is also looking outward, to the edge and… Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard. Your PDF issues solved: SwifDoo PDF Pro is here to rescue you for only $30 TL;DR: Get full PDF editing, conversion, annotation, and management tools in one powerful app with a SwifDoo PDF Pro lifetime license for Windows for $29.97 with promo code SAVE5 until March 22 at 11:59pm Pacific. Managing PDFs doesn’t have to be a frustrating chore. SwifDoo PDF Pro is a complete PDF editing solution for Windows that gives you everything you need to handle documents quickly and e… Pentagon's Anthropic bashing rekindles Silicon Valley's resistance to war Technology companies are backing Anthropic after it sued the Trump administration over its designation as a supply chain risk. 'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse' A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choi… |
OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it? OpenAI is reportedly planning to fold its ChatGPT application, Codex coding platform, and AI-powered browser into a single desktop ‘superapp’, a move that signals a shift toward enterprise and developer audiences and away from the consumer market that made the company a household name. The unified product will merge the ChatGPT interface, the Codex coding tool, and OpenAI’s browser known internal… Pinterest CEO calls for ban on social media for youth under 16 Bill Ready pointed to Australia’s social media ban for under-16s as a model, though it does not apply to his company Pinterest’s CEO called on world leaders to ban social media for youth under 16 in a LinkedIn post on Friday. “We need a clear standard: no social media for teens under 16, backed by real enforcement, and accountability for mobile phone operating systems and the apps that run on the… The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet. Airlines Are Already Preparing for an Oil Crisis With the Iran war doubling oil prices, experts say the airline industry’s belt-tightening is an economic canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world. New Solutions Emerging To Keep Kids Off Social Media Some tech companies are taking a more holistic approach to keeping children off dangerous websites and apps. Compliance costs risk widening the AI gap After the InformationWeek Podcast, “Compliance Crackdown on AI and BYOD,” featured guests Eddie Taliaferro and Ameya Kanitkar let loose on the financial roadblocks tied to AI compliance. Dropdowns Inside Scrollable Containers: Why They Break And How To Fix Them Properly Dropdowns often work perfectly until they’re placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu disappears behind the container’s edge. Godstime Aburu explains why this happens and offers practical solutions to fix it. TSMC chairman C.C. Wei on why the robotics future is forged in silicon, not stunts TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei contrasted viral videos of acrobatic robots from China with the functional requirements of high-performance service robotics, noting that mechanical agility remains "just for show" without the advanced silicon "brains". Topical Dancer is propulsive, playful, and political Last week's recommendation, Sotomayor's Wabi Sabi, has a very particular vibe that you don't find in a lot of records. One of the few things it called to mind was 2022's Topical Dancer from Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul, which I ended up revisiting this week a lot. The two records don't seem particularly alike […] |
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