Sunday, November 16, 2025

A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown  —  There's a product that makes flying less miserable—and it has never been so valuable  —  It all goes back to an airport Chili's.



Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B (Kim Tong-Hyung/Associated Press)

Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press:
Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B  —  Samsung Electronics and other major South Korean companies on Sunday announced fresh domestic investment plans at a meeting …



Sources: Apple to launch 3 high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely new Air in Q2 2027; Mac Pro gets deprioritized; Jeff Williams retires (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to launch 3 high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely new Air in Q2 2027; Mac Pro gets deprioritized; Jeff Williams retires  —  Apple's iPhone is getting its biggest makeover yet — both to its features and release schedule.  Here's what's happening to the company's flagship product.



Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet  —  Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence.



Saturday, November 15, 2025

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers  —  Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose …



Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired:
Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers  —  Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts.  Now, he's launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.



A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW  —  Record capital expenditures and data-center planning run up against the ground truths of physical infrastructure



Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)

The Information : Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researc...