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iPhone Price Could Triple Due to Escalating US-China Tariff War
The iPhone 16 Pro lineup has new colors and a fully recycled aluminum chassis for the first time. Image: Apple, Inc. Apple is scrambling to figure out a solution after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on Chinese imports. Reciprocal tariffs for a number of countries were set to take effect on April 9, but Trump granted a 90-day…
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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
Microsoft has fired one of the employees who disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event. In an email seen by The Verge, Microsoft told Ibtihal Aboussad that their employment has been terminated due to “acts of misconduct.” Aboussad was one of two protesters that interrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event on Friday by calling Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, a “war profiteer” and…
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Apple, tariffs, and the art of war – Computerworld
We are still within the sequence of energies described in Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” In this case, Apple, already badly bruised by Trump’s tariffs and their impact on its business, will now take another kicking as nations react to those oddly calculated trade taxes. Europe is gunning for Apple’s services, while China is…
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We just declared a trade war with the world
Nice economy you have there, said President Donald Trump’s administration. It would be a shame if something happened to it. The something, announced earlier this week, is a set of globally applied tariffs that make no sense on their face. No sane economist would endorse this. Through a combination of stupidity, incompetence and sheer gangsterism, the Trump administration has decided…
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Tariff war throws building of data centers into disarray
Forrester’s bottom line? “Because of the long term planning and all of the potential policy changes, I wouldn’t change my data center plans that much,” Nguyen said. Confusion reigns Every day it seems, the tariff situation becomes muddier. For example, according to a fact sheet released Wednesday, the White House has temporarily exempted semiconductors from tariffs, but not the aluminum…
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Inside the war between genAI and the internet – Computerworld
Fighting back Cloudflare is now deliberately poisoning large language model (LLM) training data, fighting back against the AI companies that are taking data from websites without permission. (The company offers content delivery networks, cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and web performance optimization.) Here’s the problem Cloudflare is trying to solve: Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity have been accused of harvesting data…
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Oracle breach claims spark war of words with security researchers
A war of words has erupted between Oracle and cybersecurity researchers following claims the company suffered a security breach. In mid-March, a threat actor by the name ‘rose87168’ published six million records, claiming the data was stolen from Oracle’s Cloud federated Single Sign-On (SSO) login service and demanding payment from affected customers. Posted to the dark web, the sample database…
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AI chatbot war breaks out with DeepSeek debut, and the winner is…you
Less than a week after Chinese start-up DeepSeek rocked the tech industry, leading generative AI (genAI) model providers are scrambling to shore up their market foothold and find ways to emulate the newcomer’s tech efficiencies. Last week, DeepSeek’s eponymous chatbot hit Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store and downloads almost immediately exceeded those of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In short order, the DeepSeek-R1…
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Netflix is about to lose this thrilling war movie — stream ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ before it’s gone
“Zero Dark Thirty” is one of the best war movies of the past two decades and should definitely be on your list of movies to watch before it leaves Netflix. Yes, unfortunately not all the movies on the best streaming services stay there forever. We are already losing one Best Picture winner from Max this month, and now we’re set…
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Prime Video is losing this must-binge war drama with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes — don’t miss your last chance to stream
Streaming services tend to follow the same routine each month: dropping loads of content, then swapping in fresh movies and shows. Unfortunately, this means some overlooked shows get removed, including the first season of “Rogue Heroes,” a thrilling war drama that’s leaving Prime Video on January 31. “Rogue Heroes” has made a surprising comeback, re-entering Prime Video’s top 10 list…
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