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Snapdragon chip prices are officially going up, maybe by ‘double digits’ [U]
Qualcomm is hiking prices on its already-expensive Snapdragon chipsets, a move that’s likely to make price hikes on Android devices all the more common. Upate 7/29: Roughly after a week after it was reported, Qualcomm has officially confirmed it will raise prices on Snapdragon chips starting on September 1. CNBC cites a release where Qualcomm explains: The semiconductor industry is experiencing a broad-based increase in input costs, across wafer fabrication, assembly, test, advanced packaging,…
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Wiki-news : six recommandations pour une société des communs; Wikimania à Paris
Wikimédia France publie une feuille de route «pour faire des communs le pilier des politiques publiques du numérique». Wikimania Paris a réuni 1.200 participant(e)s à Wikipédia et aux projets liés. L’IA y a occupé une part des échanges et exposés. Tsunami d’actualités ces derniers jours autour de l’écosystème de Wikipédia, qui fête ses 25 ans, et des projets liés, avec la tenue à Paris du 21 au 25 juillet de la Wikimania (voir plus…
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Smartphones
20th Anniversary iPhone Coming Next Year With These 10 Features
Apple's 20th anniversary iPhone is expected to arrive in the fall of 2027 with the most significant redesign the device has seen since the iPhone X. The first iPhone was announced in January 2007 and went on sale that June, meaning the device's 20th anniversary technically falls on June 29, 2027. Apple rarely launches new high-end iPhones outside of its September timeframe, and the anniversary models are still expected to arrive in the fall…
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Apple faces bipartisan Senate pushback over plans to buy Chinese memory chips
Bloomberg reports that US senators from both sides of the aisle are urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to commit by August 21 to not using memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC. Here are the details. As Apple looks for ways to navigate the ongoing memory shortage, the company has reportedly been seeking the Trump administration’s blessing to source components from CXMT and YMTC, two firms designated by the Pentagon as Chinese military…
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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It’s one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, while also holding valuable stakes in the two biggest AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. Those incentives are starting to clash as Microsoft posts blockbuster financial results. The company just reported an extremely profitable quarter with $90 billion in revenue and net income of $35.8 billion. For the fiscal year, which ended…
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Qualcomm Expects Apple Modem Revenue to Drop Faster Than Expected
Qualcomm expects its Apple revenue to decline faster than it previously anticipated, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told Reuters in an interview following the company's earnings call for the third fiscal quarter of 2026. Amon chalked up the loss to supply constraints, which will reduce the share of Qualcomm components used in the next iPhone launch well below its earlier 20 percent estimate. Qualcomm expects the drop in Apple revenue to start in the fourth…
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Studio Display XDR hits Apple’s refurb store, saving you up to $540
There’s a new addition to Apple’s popular Certified Refurbished store. Apple has started selling the Studio Display XDR in refurbished condition, offering 15% off the mini-LED external display that’s perfect for Mac users. Here are prices for the refurbished variants of the Studio Display XDR available from Apple: The Studio Display XDR was first released back in March. It features a 27-inch 5K display with mini-LED backlighting, along with a 120Hz refresh rate. There’s…
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Apple's reliance on Qualcomm could decline faster than expected after Q4 2026
The 2026 iPhone lineup could divest further from Qualcomm as Apple increases use of its in-house C-series modem, though Qualcomm blames supply constraints on a faster-than-expected transition. Qualcomm and Apple's relationship has been in question since Apple's release of an in-house C-series modem. While a contract between the companies is set to end in March 2027, Qualcomm is looking to use AI data centers to replace the revenue provided by Apple. According to a…
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9to5Mac Daily: July 29, 2026 – iOS 26.6, Apple’s smart home plans
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Backup you can rely on. Save 20% with code 9to5daily. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to…
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to sell investors on his prediction for the future — one where billions of people will have their own personal AI agents in the next five years. (Let’s hope that future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents — without triggering a fresh wave of climate disasters.) “I think that it’s extremely unlikely if you look out five years from now,…
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a $3.2 billion gain, boosting diluted earnings per share by 33 cents. (Microsoft reported diluted earnings per share of $4.81 for the quarter). Microsoft invested $5 billion in…
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The FCC’s foreign robot ban declares war on robotic vacuum cleaners
TL;DR The FCC’s latest ban on foreign tech has set its aim at “advanced robotic devices.” While the announcement specifically mentioned walking robots, the FCC has now clarified that the ban impacts robot vacuums as well. Current models (despite some clear examples of security risks) won’t be impacted, but future launches may face the ban. The current administration has a complicated relationship with China, to put it mildly, and when it’s not wreaking havoc…
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Apple Says UK App Store Steering Rules Would Be 'Highly Intrusive'
Apple said new UK App Store rules would give regulators a "highly intrusive" role dictating how it runs its business, reports Reuters. Apple submitted feedback to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority as it considers forcing Apple to change its App Store rules around steering. The CMA wants Apple to let developers link to payment options outside of the App Store, which the CMA says will cut fees and boost competition. Developers in the…
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Qualcomm says supply constraints are shrinking its Apple business faster than expected
After Qualcomm released its quarterly report and projected weaker-than-expected profit for the current quarter, the company’s CEO told Reuters that supply constraints would cause its revenue from Apple products to decline faster than expected. Here are the details. Over the past few years, Apple has been moving forward with plans to replace Qualcomm-made modems with its own components, building on its 2019 acquisition of Intel’s smartphone modem business. Qualcomm, for its part, has repeatedly…
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Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
In June, Meta entered the enterprise AI market with a new AI agent aimed at businesses, to help with customer service, support, and other daily operations. But the tech giant’s enterprise AI ambitions are much more expansive, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday’s second-quarter earnings call. “We see a large enterprise opportunity to sell to businesses, including APIs, business agents, potentially selling compute directly, and other services that we’re building for large…
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Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
The app will merge Copilot’s chat, coding, and agentic features. The app will merge Copilot’s chat, coding, and agentic features. Microsoft is working on an AI “super app” that combines Copilot’s chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span “both consumer and commercial experiences” when it launches this year. “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots,” Nadella said. “This…
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Pastebot 3 for Mac Adds Rule-Based Organization, Powerful Paste Filters
Tapbots recently launched Pastebot 3, the newest version of its popular clipboard management software. Like prior versions of Pastebot, Pastebot 3 records everything you copy so that it's easy to find and paste when needed. You can store links and other content that you often paste, and organize the snippets by category in Custom Pastebins. There are also rule-based Smart Pastebins for automatic organization, like every link or image copied from Safari. Smart Pastebins…
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Xbox says game discs should have worked during its outage
The company’s tech chief said a fix for the error will be arriving soon. Xbox experienced a strange outage earlier this week. Not only were the platform's online services unavailable for almost an entire day, but even games on physical discs stopped working for some players. The company's technology chief, Scott Van Vliet, explained that the outage was caused by problems at an external licensing service. And if your gut reaction is that discs…
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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that rendered it broken. The algorithm is known as HAWK. It’s a digital signature scheme designed to withstand future attacks from quantum computers. HAWK had survived two rounds of testing by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) for evaluating the security of PQC…
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 249 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. Safari Technology Preview 249 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, Animations, CSS, Editing, Forms, HTML, JavaScript, Media, Rendering, Spatial Web, Web API, Web Audio, Web Inspector, WebAssembly, WebDriver, and WebRTC. The current…
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IA
Agents d’IA en entreprise : cinq garde-fous avant de leur ouvrir les outils métiers
Les agents d’intelligence artificielle ne se contentent plus de rédiger un texte ou de résumer un document. Ils peuvent rechercher une information, interroger une base, créer un ticket, modifier un fichier, déclencher un processus et recommencer jusqu’à attein
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Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents
Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday’s Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do to make them viable for users — and how it will convince less technical people to give them a…
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Apple pushes back against UK proposal to loosen App Store payment rules
Apple today alleged that a new UK proposal targeting App Store fees amounts to price regulation, warning that it could undermine innovation and investment. Here are the details. As reported by Reuters, Apple today submitted a formal response to a consultation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), pushing back against proposed rules that would allow app developers to link to alternative payment options. The CMA can impose such requirements after designating Apple…
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Smartphones
Qualcomm is raising phone chip prices starting September 1st
Qualcomm reported its lowest quarterly handset revenue since 2021. Qualcomm reported its lowest quarterly handset revenue since 2021. RAMageddon won’t be the only reason your next phone costs more — Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that “prices are going to go up” on the company’s products starting on September 1st, CNBC reports. The price hikes were rumored last week to…
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