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Steve Rabuchin. (LinkedIn Photo) — After more than 20 years at the tech giant, Steve Rabuchin has retired from Amazon, leaving the role of vice president of Project Kuiper, the internet-providing satellite project that was recently rebranded as Amazon Leo. Rabuchin’s career at the company included serving as general manager for Kindle, vice president of Amazon Appstore, VP of Alexa, and a stint with AWS, among other roles. Amazon this week laid off 16,000 workers from corporate roles, but Rabuchin made clear in a LinkedIn post that his departure was voluntary. “So, what’s next? I am going to spend a…
MAINGEAR’s Retro98 is a beige throwback tower that hides current gaming hardware. It’s built for anyone who wants the late-90s desktop look without giving up today’s performance. Prices start at $2,499 for an RTX 5070 build, then jump to $3,499 with an RTX 5080, and $4,999 with an RTX 5090. Retro98 alpha tops the stack at $9,799, pairing an RTX 5090 with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 64GB of DDR5, and a 4TB SSD. This is also a scarcity play, capped at 38 total units, split into 32 standard systems and six Retro98 alpha builds. The listing calls the systems…
TL;DR Using Google’s new Veo 3.1 video model, we created a breathtaking 1 minute 40 second FPV drone flight through mountain valleys, and it took just 15 minutes to generate. Imagine soaring through alpine valleys, gliding between snowy peaks, and diving toward rivers that twist like silver ribbons below, all without leaving your desk. That’s exactly what we did using Veo 3.1, Google’s latest generative AI video model. Our test video, a first-person drone flight across a mountain range, captures the freedom and exhilaration of flying while showcasing just how far AI video tools have come. The result is stunningly…
If you opened TikTok recently, you probably saw some weird stuff happening. Maybe you couldn’t post a new video. Maybe the app asked for your precise location. Maybe you weren’t seeing as much stuff about ICE or the Trump administration’s latest assault on the global world order. If the latter is the case, you weren’t the only one.When it comes to TikTok, the past week has been full of changes, challenges, and conspiracy theories. It was the first week of operations for the new company that’s running TikTok in the United States: the TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, a name…
Friday is the general release of the documentary Melania, a film about President Donald Trump’s third wife and first lady of the United States. A WIRED analysis shows that there are still plenty of seats available, unless you live near the AMC Classic Indian River 24 in Vero Beach, Florida. Or the AMC Independence Commons 20 in Independence, Missouri.Melania was produced by Amazon MGM Studios and directed by Brett Ratner, who is well known for both his Rush Hour series (another sequel of which is currently in production at Trump’s request) and for being accused of sexual misconduct by six…
Even networks long considered “untrainable” can learn effectively with a bit of a helping hand. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have shown that a brief period of alignment between neural networks, a method they call guidance, can dramatically improve the performance of architectures previously thought unsuitable for modern tasks.Their findings suggest that many so-called “ineffective” networks may simply start from less-than-ideal starting points, and that short-term guidance can place them in a spot that makes learning easier for the network. The team’s guidance method works by encouraging a target network to match the internal representations of…
Hello, Cyber Builders 🖖Last week, I started a series on go-to-market and cybersecurity. The key idea was that you need to build trust with your market and customers to sell a cybersecurity product. Time to Trust: Why Cybersecurity GTM Lives or Dies on CredibilityThis week, I want to focus on the second kind of trust: trust with your partners and ecosystem. These are the people and organizations you need to build bigger, stronger cybersecurity companies over time. Analysts, channel partners, consulting firms, marketplaces—every cybersecurity company has to work with at least one of these.Rethinking Indirect Channels in a Cloud & AI WorldHow…
Apple shared its latest quarterly financial results today and the news is once again very, very good for the Cupertino company. The quarter ending December 27, 2025 marked “the best-ever quarter” for iPhones, which generated a record high revenue of nearly $85.27 billion for the business. Apple doesn’t disclose the number of devices sold any more, but even with the prices for many of its latest generation of smartphones surpassing $1,000 a pop, that’s still got to be a heck of a lot of iPhones.”The demand for iPhone was simply staggering,” CEO Tim Cook said on the conference call to…
Consolidation is on the mind of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who is reportedly mulling the idea of merging his artificial intelligence startup xAI Corp., the social media platform X and his space rocket company SpaceX Corp. into a single entity. The report today comes from Reuters, which cited a person familiar with Musk’s plans today as saying that xAI and SpaceX are currently exploring the possibility of a merger, which would happen before the space company goes ahead with a proposed initial public offering. SpaceX is already considered the world’s most valuable private company, with recent reports putting…
Quick Digest Question – What is driving the 2026 GPU shortage and how is it reshaping AI development? Answer: The current compute crunch is a product of explosive demand from AI workloads, limited supplies of high‑bandwidth memory, and tight advanced packaging capacity.Researchers note that lead times for data‑center GPUs now run from 36 to 52 weeks, and that memory suppliers are prioritizing high‑margin AI chips over consumer products. As a result, gaming GPU production has slowed and data‑center buyers dominate the global supply of DRAM and HBM. This article argues that the GPU shortage is not a temporary blip but…