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💻 Apple plans a touchscreen MacBook Pro
🤝 TikTok buyers group to include Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen
🚫 China orders tech firms to stop buying Nvidia chips
🔍 Google launches experimental Windows search tool app
🛰️ SpaceX partners with chipmakers for Starlink phone service
👺 Anthropic's AI use limits frustrate the White House
🎁 + 16 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 💻 Apple plans a touchscreen MacBook Pro LINK
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- Apple is reportedly planning its first-ever touchscreen for the Mac lineup, starting with a new OLED MacBook Pro model set to enter mass production sometime in late 2026.
- This potential launch signals a major shift in Mac design philosophy, directly contrasting Steve Jobs' famous 2010 claim that vertical touch surfaces have terrible ergonomics and cause user fatigue.
- The report suggests this new direction reflects long-term observation of iPad user behavior, indicating that touch controls can enhance productivity and the overall experience in certain specific scenarios.
| 🤝 TikTok buyers group to include Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen LINK
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- A group of US investors including Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, and Silver Lake will own roughly 80 percent of TikTok's US business, with Chinese shareholders holding a minority stake.
- The US government will reportedly get to choose one board member for the new "American-dominated" body, giving it direct oversight into the company's stateside operation.
- TikTok engineers plan to re-create the app's algorithm with technology licensed from ByteDance, while partner Oracle is set to oversee all of the American user data.
| 🚫 China orders tech firms to stop buying Nvidia chips LINK
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- The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered top tech companies like Bytedance and Alibaba to stop testing and purchasing Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D chips, a product designed specifically for that market.
- Beijing concluded its domestic AI processors are now comparable to the downgraded Nvidia products allowed in the country, following discussions with local tech companies like Huawei and Alibaba.
- A consensus among Chinese executives indicates that domestic supply can meet local demand, triggering an industry-wide push to build a self-sufficient system without relying on Nvidia's chips.
| 🔍 Google launches experimental Windows search tool app LINK
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- Google released an experimental search app for Windows that finds local files, installed apps, and Google Drive content with a simple keyboard shortcut, working much like the Spotlight feature on macOS.
- It integrates Google Lens, allowing you to select anything on your screen to find information about images or text, but this requires permission to read the contents of your display.
- An optional AI Mode provides deeper, AI-powered responses, but the program is currently experimental and only available to users in the US with their language set to English through Google Labs.
| 🛰️ SpaceX partners with chipmakers for Starlink phone service LINK
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- SpaceX is working with chip manufacturers to integrate satellite-connectivity hardware directly into smartphones, a key move for its plan to create a Starlink direct-to-device service for unmodified phones.
- After acquiring wireless spectrum from EchoStar, SpaceX can now negotiate with global telecom carriers more independently, aiming to wholesale its satellite network capacity directly to their existing mobile customers.
- The company plans to launch satellites needed for this direct-to-device business within the next two years and expects to begin early mobile phone testing with the system by late 2026.
| 👺 Anthropic's AI use limits frustrate the White House LINK
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- Hostility inside the Trump administration has deepened toward Anthropic after it refused to let federal contractors use its AI models for the surveillance of US citizens.
- Anthropic's usage policy prohibits surveillance, preventing the FBI, Secret Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using its AI models for some of their official functions.
- Officials believe the company uses vague terminology to make a moral judgment, unlike OpenAI whose policy has specific carveouts for legal monitoring by law enforcement.
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- Tesla's board has a tiger by the tail LINK
- Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: "This will break the site" LINK
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Trending research and tools
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LatencyMon: a tool that finds the root causes of computer performance problems, like audio stuttering or mouse freezes, by checking for system responsiveness issues. LINK
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Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value: the paper proves that the most productive 5-state Turing machine will run for 47,176,870 steps and write 4,098 ones before it halts. LINK
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Notion API importer: a project for a plugin to import content using the Notion API, converting databases into a native format while preserving user files and attachments. LINK
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AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan: a now-discontinued project that provided an open-source driver for running Vulkan graphics applications on AMD hardware. LINK
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Tabby: a highly configurable terminal for Windows, macOS, and Linux that also works as an SSH and serial client. LINK
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A Survey on Retrieval and Structuring Augmented Generation with LLMs: this paper reviews how large language models can be improved by first finding and organizing external information before providing an answer. LINK
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