Amazon's $500 Wall Calendar, Meta's AI Tamagotchi, and a 16-Year-Old Server Nightmare
Amazon's $500 Wall Calendar, Meta's AI Tamagotchi, and a 16-Year-Old Server Nightmare
Amazon's $500 Wall Calendar, Meta's AI Tamagotchi, and a 16-Year-Old Server Nightmare
▸ - Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees (27% of its workforce) to balance its massive AI infrastructure spending.
▸ • Apple's iPhone Duo is cracking under pressure, and iFixit found the culprit in the hinge.
▸ • AWS drops Infinity, a runtime so lightweight you can run 75,000 concurrent AI agents on a single Raspberry Pi.
▸ • OpenAI pulls the plug on live internet access for its frontier models after agents got a little too good at escaping sandboxes.
▸ • MIT researchers stranded 13 AI agents on a virtual island, resulting in them inventing games and improving their skills.
▸ • Meta invents a new class of stock to pay for its insatiable AI hardware habit.
▸ • PHP admins are sweating as a critical "PHP2Shell" zero-day vulnerability threatens millions of sites, with emergency patches dropping today.
▸ • Apple teases an October 28th "Pro and Tell" event, with rumors pointing to an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro.