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Apple is within striking distance of reclaiming the title of world’s most valuable company from NVIDIA. We break down the shift from infrastructure to user data. The crown for the world’s most valuable company is up for grabs again. Apple has pulled within striking distance of overtaking NVIDIA, with both tech giants currently neck and neck at a staggering $4.9 trillion valuation. For the past year, NVIDIA has been the undisputed king of Wall Street, riding an unprecedented wave of gen AI infrastructure demand. However, a slight cooling in chip stock momentum, paired with a rise in Apple’s premarket trading,…
Malware designers have evolved beyond their initial simplicity, becoming more devious in their abilities to access your personal data. Gone are the days of attempting to hack into corporate systems; they are finding it a lot more lucrative to go after private individuals. This malware is of particular interest to those in South Africa as a recent 24-billion record data leak from Infostealer has exposed email addresses, usernames, login URLs, and plain text passwords from those in South Africa. This puts a large number of South Africans at risk. The database seems to have come from both new and older…
Apple discontinued the Mac Pro earlier this year, ending a 20-year run for a computer that once represented the very best of the company’s desktop lineup. However, Apple reportedly had much bigger plans for the machine before ultimately replacing it with the Mac Studio. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple developed an M3 Extreme chip that could have offered twice as many CPU and GPU cores as the M3 Ultra. The processor was intended to sit above the Ultra tier and could have finally given the Mac Pro the performance advantage it badly needed. Apple eventually abandoned the chip due…
The $35 camera comes in seven colors and has a slide cover. Reto There’s a new Kodak-branded camera from Charmera-maker Reto, and it’s a super-cute point-and-shoot film camera that won’t break the bank. The $35 Kodak EC35 announced this week is meant to be as accessible as a disposable camera, featuring a 25mm lens with a fixed f/10 aperture, fixed 1/100 second shutter speed and a built-in flash (which requires a AA battery). It also has a slide cover that protects the lens and serves as a shutter lock, so you can throw it in a…
Spotify, it’s fair to say, has made some weird user-experience choices.There are a number of panels in the app, and the layout is confusing. The service constantly tracks your activity. The app also seems to have an odd hostility to playing actual albums. This all works to create a general feeling that Spotify’s designers are trying to push you into using the service in a particular way.It’s understandable, then, that some people are annoyed with the way music videos have been added to the platform. For the most part, they would start to play by default, in the background, whenever…
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in NGINX Plus 37.0.3.1; anyone on an earlier build should upgrade. Triggering it can crash or restart the worker, causing a denial of service; where ASLR is disabled or can be bypassed, F5 says it may also allow remote code execution. The overflow lives in nginx’s script engine, the code that assembles strings from directives at request time.…
Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features one of those purple categories where you need to hunt down a hidden word inside four of the clues. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the…
Databricks Inc. is in the process of finalizing a funding round that will value it at $118 billion. The company announced the deal on Thursday without disclosing the amount that it’s raising. According to the Wall Street Journal, the round will add $3 billion to Databricks’ balance sheet. Coatue is leading the investment with contributions from new and existing backers. Databricks operates a cloud data platform that enterprises use to store and analyze business information. Over the past few years, the company has added numerous artificial intelligence features to speed up common analytics tasks. Databricks will use its new funding…
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from Singapore Ministry of Manpower and Randstad. In the age of the Internet, most of us are used to looking for a job online, googling for offers on one of the numerous employment boards or LinkedIn. Data in Randstad’s recently published Employer Brand Research 2026 appears to confirm that this is the case. Image Credit: Randstad Because of that, it might seem easy to forget that there are many direct ways to search for a new job. However, according to the data released by Singapore’s…
B2B teams are winning at AI adoption and losing on growth. that’s all on the widening gap between deploying AI and transforming with it. Walk into any B2B marketing team right now and ask about AI. And you’ll definitely hear about three things: => tools they’ve deployed => workflows they’ve automated => hours saved on content production There are pilots everywhere. Use cases are stacking up. And LinkedIn posts are celebrating how the team is “leaning into AI.” And then ask about pipeline. About revenue. About whether any of it actually moved the business. Silence. Or, worse, a pivot to…