Apple has confirmed that macOS 28, set to be released in fall 2027, will end support for Intel-only apps The change means that more than 22'000 apps and drivers will stop working for Macs next year. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Apple #macOS28 #macOS #Rosetta2

Oura Ring 5 revealed - smaller, lighter than previous models www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #oura #smartring

European Parliament ditched Google's search engine and switched to Qwant Parliament is concerned about privacy and the fact that U.S. legislation forces all American companies to hand over their data to U.S. intelligence agencies if requested. #qwant #europeanunion #seo

Elon Musk lost his court case against OpenAI www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #elonmusk #courtcase #openai #ai

Google adss more restrictions to its Gemini AI usage - heavy users might hit a mandatory 5-hour pause www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #google #gemini #ai

Chinese robot maker Unitree now offers full-sized mecha for those willing to pay $650k #unitree #mecha #robots

Google is now offering less free cloud storage for new users, if they don't provide their phone number According to Google, the change doesn't apply to all new users, but is a "limited test". #google #googlephotos #googledrive

Asus announced its ASUS Open concept in Nordics, selling laptops completely without an operating system Obviously, laptops without an OS are cheaper - and Linux power users can now simply install their preferred distro to a blank computer. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #asus #asusopen #linux

Google introduced a "completely new device category", Googlebooks Googlebook is basically a laptop using Android, with tons of AI features on top of it. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Googlebook #Google #Android

Google's Gemini Intelligence allows AI to control the entire phone for the user With Gemini Intelligence, users can create autonomous AI agents that handle complex tasks, involving several apps. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #GeminiIntelligence #AI #Android

Apple and Google have finally enabled encrypted RCS messaging between iPhones and Android phones www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #rcs #iphone #android

Reddit has started blocking users using mobile browsers, pushing them to install Reddit's app instead #Reddit #enshittification

TikTok launched a paid, ad-free version of its app in the UK Subscription costs £3.99 a month and is limited to users over age of 18. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #tiktok

Yango, a Russian-owned taxi company operating in Europe, received a €100 million fine for transferring its customer data to Russia #yango #yandex #russia #gdpr #finland #norway

Google wants a slice of Whoop's market, launches Fitbit Air www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #fitbitair #google #whoop #fitness #activitytracker

Microsoft kicks Copilot AI out of Xbox completely New Xbox boss says that company is removing features - such as Copilot - that aren't part of core gaming experience. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Xbox #Copilot #gaming

Chrome downloads automatically - and without asking a permission - a 4 GB AI file and stores it permanently on your hard drive. If you delete the file, Chrome will simply re-download it again. Again, without telling you or asking for your permission. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #chrome #ai

Microsoft open sources new parts of its history Company has released the oldest known source codes for what eventually became known as MS-DOS, but was originally called 86-DOS. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #86dos #pcdos #msdos #oss

Beloved Windows' open source text editor Notepad++ finally arrives to macOS www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #notepad #notepadplusplus #macos #oss #opensource

According to Chinese sources, OnePlus and Realme have merged Both companies are subsdiaries of Oppo, one of the largest phone manufacturers in the world. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #OnePlus #Realme #Oppo

Microsoft has (finally) decided to end the enshittification of Windows 11 "Project K2" is Microsoft's internal, broad project that aims to fix all the issues that annoy people with current state of Windows. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Windows11 #Windows

Party is over: GitHub Copilot switches to usage-based billing www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #githubcopilot #ai #programming

Lithuanian used goods' marketplace Vinted is now worth 8 billion euros www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Vinted

Elon Musk's SpaceX has signed a collaboration agreement with AI company Cursor Deal allows SpaceX to outright buy Cursor at later date. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #cursor #ai #spacex #elonmusk

Apple has patched the loophole that allowed FBI to reveal suspect's Signal messages, even after the Signal app was removed from the phone www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #apple #iphone #signal #fbi #privacy

According to Korean news sources, Samsung's mobile phone business is set to be unprofitable for the year 2026 This would be the very first time Samsung's mobile phone business makes losses for an entire financial year - ever. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Samsung #mobilephones

Sony changed its licensing terms for new digitally purchased games From now on, all new digitally purchased games require online validation every 30 days or they stop working. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #ps5 #ps4 #playstation #sony #gaming #drm

Google invests up to $40 billion to Anthropic Investment could also block the long-rumored plans where Apple would acquire Anthropic. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Anthropic #AI #Google

Microsoft Gaming changes its name back to Xbox New gaming division bosses also shared their vision on how Xbox should be "fixed" and how to lure back the gamers to Microsoft's platform. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #xbox #gaming

StremView goes bankrupt Austrian company was the manufacturers and distributor of Thomson and Nokia branded TVs and streaming devices in Europe. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #StreamView #Nokia #Thomson

According to industry analysts, Meta is about to surpass Google in terms of ad revenue Google has been world's largest ad company for years now, so the change would be rather significant one. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #meta #google #advertising

EU wants Google to open its search data to competitors Rather unsurprisingly, Google opposes the idea and plans to fight it in courts, if needed. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #google #searchengine #europeanunion

Finnish Save the Children organization has launched a massive lobbying campaign, hoping to resurrect the Chat Control legislative initiative www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #privacy #europeanunion #chatcontrol #finland

IKEA and Samsung have partnered in order to make Samsung's SmartThings ecosystem more compatible with IKEA's IoT products www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #ikea #samsung #matter #smartthings #iot

Amazon invests upto $25 billion to Anthropic www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #amazon #aws #anthropic #ai

Apple has chosen its new CEO, John Ternus He will start as a CEO on 1st of September and on very same date, current CEO, Tim Cook, will become Apple's new executive chairman. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #apple #johnternus #timcook

GitHub Copilot pauses new user registrations, tightens its usage limits - and restricts access to Claude Opus models GitHub stated that the rise of agentic development has made its current, fixed monthly pricing model difficult to balance with developers' needs. #github #githubcopilot #ai

According to media reports, even Apple isn't immune to the component shortage we're experiencing Rumors say that the new Mac Studio and new MacBook Pro models have been postponed. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #apple #macbook #macstudio

The era of free (or very cheap) AI is about to end And both, consumers and companies using AI, may experience a harsh reality very soon www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #ai #openai #anthropic #oped

Defunct statups have found a new way to make some extra cash: They started selling their former employees' emails and Slack messages to AI companies www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #privacy #ai

Google has confirmed that it will start punishing websites that "hijack" the browser's back button Punishing here means that such sites will rank significantly lower in Google's search results soon. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #google #seo

Doing a fresh install of Windows 11 can now be half an hour faster process Now the installation process allows user to postpone the Windows updates until the OS is already in use. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #windows #windows11

European Union's new age verification app was said to be "technically ready" However, researcher claims that the app's security can be circumvented within two minutes. #ageverification #europeanunion

Google released fourth and final beta for upcoming Android 17 operating system If you happen to own a compatible Pixel phone and are not afraid to try out beta versions, you can already install the Android 17 beta 4. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #Android #Android17

FCC banned all the foreign-made routers in the United States in March Now, first exception has been granted: Netgear can now sell its products in States, despite them being manufactured in Asia www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #netgear #fcc #router

Have we finally reached the peak of the AI hype? Ethical shoe company, Allbirds, sold off its shoe making business and became an AI infrastructure company. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #allbirds #ai

Soon USB-C charging port becomes mandatory for laptops in Europe From 28th of April, all new laptops sold in EU must be able to be charged through a USB-C port. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #usbc #europeanunion

European Union's official age verification app is now "technically ready" The app will be used to prove whether the user of the website or an app is over 18yo or not. App wont reveal any further information about the user, just whether the user is an adult or not. #europeanunion #ageverification

Google released a surprising new Windows app Google app for Desktop combines AI web search, image snipping tools, Google Lens, local folder search and Google Drive search into one, unified Windows app. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #GoogleAppForDesktop #Google #AI

DaVinci Resolve v21 takes the popular video editor to a totally new turf: it adds tons of photograph management tools Many people have already called this an open attack against Adobe Lightroom. www.afterdawn.com/news/article... #DaVinciResolve #videoediting #software