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Apple COO Jeff Williams is retiring this year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-25 05:13:30

Jeff Williams is stepping down from his post as chief operating officer at Apple, the company announced today. Sabih Khan, senior vice president of operations for the company, will take over the COO title later this month. Following Williams' retirement later this year, the design team that he had overseen will report directly to CEO Tim Cook. He also leads the teams for the Apple Watch and the company's Health initiatives, but no details have been shared yet about who will head up those section

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The Entire Run of ‘Squid Game’ Is Currently Dominating Netflix Ratings

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-25 05:30:01

Squid Game‘s three seasons in order of fan preference? Season one was easily the best. Season two brought mixed results. And season three is nobody’s favorite. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t still binging as if 45.6 billion won depended on it. The streamer’s latest ratings chart has Squid Game season three in the top slot; no surprise there. But the other seasons have climbed back up the global top 10 of non-English shows, with 2024’s season two at number two and 2021’s season one at number

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Starlink Is Coming to Phones in 2 Weeks. Check Whether You'll Get It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 04:15:00

In two weeks, you could be able to send a text message -- or even a photo, video or voice note -- from deep inside a national park or mountain pass. That's the future T-Mobile envisions, as its partnership with SpaceX's Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" b

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Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-25 02:11:47

In Brief French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Mistral is also talking to French lenders like Bpifrance SACA to raise hundreds of millions of euros in debt, per Bloomberg. TechCrunch has reached out to Mistral for comment. Mistral, makers of the Le Chat chatbot, is one of the most significant players in the European AI landscape with a focus on open-wei

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Apple COO Jeff Williams to step down later this month

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-08-25 04:00:44

Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer, is stepping down from his role later this month, as announced by the company on Tuesday. Sabih Khan, who currently serves as the senior vice president of operations, has been appointed as the new COO. Williams has decided to step down in order to retire and hopes to “spend more time with friends and family, including five grandchildren and counting,” he stated in the press release. Before his retirement later this year, Williams will continue to

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LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-08-25 05:24:15

LangChain, an AI infrastructure startup providing tools to build and monitor LLM-powered applications, is raising a new round of funding at an approximate $1 billion valuation led by IVP, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. LangChain began its life in late 2022 as an open-source project founded by Harrison Chase, who was then an engineer at machine learning startup Robust Intelligence. After generating significant developer interest, Chase transformed the project into a start

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Jeff Bezos sells $666 million in Amazon stock as part of plan to unload 25 million shares

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-08-25 09:47:31

Jeff Bezos gestures as he leaves Aman Venice hotel, ahead of their expected wedding, in Venice, Italy, June 25, 2025. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sold nearly three million shares worth $665.8 million over two days in July, a regulatory filing Tuesday showed. The stock sale is part of a plan announced earlier this year that will see Bezos unload up to 25 million shares of Amazon through May 2026. Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, sold $736.7 million in stock during the final days of

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Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-25 09:14:52

Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO role later this month. In addition to his role as COO, however, Williams is also responsible for overseeing Apple’s design team. Once Williams officially retires later this year, Apple says that the design team will begin reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. From Apple’s press release today: Apple today announced Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer

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IDC: Mac shipments up 21% in Q2, but U.S. sales stalled ahead of tariff deadline

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-25 09:28:11

According to a preliminary report issued by IDC today, Apple saw the strongest year-over-year growth during Q2 compared to its closest competitors in the PC market, except in the U.S., where sales basically flatlined. Here are the details Based on today’s numbers, Apple outpaced the competition by a lot, with 21.4% growth year-over-year. However, it came up once again in fourth place with 9.1% market share. In practice, that translated to 6.2 million PCs shipped worldwide, up from 5.1 million

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Best Cheap Vacuums for 2025: Our Best Lab-Tested Performers for Less Than $300

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 08:24:00

Dyson Dyson V8 Absolute: The V8 Absolute is one of the more affordable Dyson vacuums you can buy. Normally $520 at full price, it's currently on sale for $350. That still makes it more expensive than most of the vacuums on this list. In testing, it did great on hardwood, removing nearly 98% of sand, but it didn't do as hot on carpet. The Absolute was able to remove 68.3% of sand from low-pile and 52% from midpile, falling short of many competitors, including the Levoit LVAC-200 and Shark Strato

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Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire from company later this year

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-08-25 13:59:40

Jeff Williams, chief operating officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Apple said on Tuesday that Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, a 27-year company veteran, will be retiring later this year. Current operations leader Sabih Khan will take over much of the COO role later this month, Apple said in a press release. For his remaining time with the comapny, Williams will continue

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Apple COO Jeff Williams stepping down later this month

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-25 13:34:25

Apple has announced that Jeff Williams is stepping down as chief operating officer later this month. Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, will assume the COO role as part of what Apple describes as a “long-planned succession.” Williams joined Apple in 1998 as the company’s head of Worldwide Procurement. Prior to joining Apple, he worked at IBM for thirteen years across multiple operations and engineering roles. In his current role at Apple, he oversees the company’s entire w

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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 15:58:45

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years. We really did it! We bootstrapped ProjectionLab to $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. And I’m still processing that this is real. 🥹 Back in 2021, I was inspired by the financial independence movement and wanted a better way to plan my own life. I couldn’t find the right tool, so I started building. I had no idea that side project would one day help over 100,000 households plan for their financial future

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Best Cordless Vacuums We've Tested (July 2025)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 12:28:00

Dyson Dyson V8 Absolute: The V8 Absolute is one of the more affordable Dyson vacuums you can buy. Normally $519.99 at full price, it's currently on sale for $349.99. While the price isn't bad, the performance doesn't live up to expectations. While it did great on hardwood, removing nearly 98% of sand, it didn't do as well on carpet. The Absolute was able to remove 68.3% of sand from low-pile and 52% from mid-pile carpets, falling short of many competitors, including the Levoit LVAC-200 and Shar

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One of Tim Cook’s possible successors is leaving Apple

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-25 13:54:57

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, the company’s vice president of operations, will take over for Jeff Williams as chief operating officer later this month. In an announcement on Tuesday, Apple said the move is part of a “long-planned succession” that has Williams retiring at the end of this year. Williams, who oversaw the introduction of the iPo

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We have a surprising underwater ally in combatting climate change: zooplankton

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-25 17:06:14

Odds are you aren't too familiar with the group of animals called zooplankton, which include copepods, krill and salps. On land, they're most commonly used as fish food. Underwater, however, they've been quietly making a substantial contribution to slowing global warming. The BBC reported on the latest research into zooplankton by an international team, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography , that detailed just how much these tiny critters have been impacting the planet's temperatu

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‘Superman’ Soars

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-25 17:00:56

It takes mere seconds for James Gunn’s Superman to cast a spell on its audience. The film is not just an introduction to a brand-new Superman but to an entire new DC Universe, and with a very clever, very exciting, very intense collection of sentences that appear on screen, it’s instantly clear how different and resonant this film is about to be. The information sets the tone, stage, and stakes in moments, as each statement reverberates with intensity and anticipation. And that’s just the first

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Sorry If You Already Own One, but the Surface Pro Is Going for Peanuts This Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-25 17:25:13

The Microsoft Surface Pro has long been famed as the ultimate hybrid PC, quickly switching from a tablet to a full-fledged laptop in seconds. What truly sets it apart is that it’s able to run Windows 11 Copilot+, which gives you all of the usual productivity and multitasking features of an actual desktop experience. Right now, thanks to Prime Day, you can get the latest (and most powerful) model (Snapdragon X Elite, 256GB storage, 16GM RAM) at its all-time best price on Amazon. Exclusive to Pri

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Gmail’s new tab is made for unsubscribing from emails

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-25 17:59:37

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Google is introducing a new Gmail feature for those feeling overwhelmed by an onslaught of subscription emails in their inboxes. The Manage subscriptions view shows a list of emails delivered through active subscriptions, automatically sorted with the most frequent senders at the top, next to individual one-click links that will unsubscribe you f

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SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-25 17:52:07

In Brief SpaceX is looking to raise fresh capital by selling new shares to insiders in a deal that would boost its valuation to around $400 billion, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The company’s strategy is to raise money via a fundraising round and separately hold a tender offer to allow employees to sell some of their shares to a select group of investors, anonymous sources told Bloomberg. SpaceX typically holds tender offers twice per year. SpaceX’s valuation has steadily climbed si

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Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth

news.ycombinator.com Branco 2025-08-25 21:10:46

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Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-25 21:22:51

With decades of online life behind us, many people are using years-old email addresses. Those inboxes are probably packed with subscriptions you've picked up over the years, and you probably don't need all of them. Gmail is going to make it easier to manage them with a new feature rolling out on mobile and web. Google's existing unsubscribe prompts are evolving into a one-stop shop for all your subscription management needs, a feature that has been in the works for a weirdly long time. The pitc

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The military might finally win the right to repair

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-26 01:35:41

Senators Tim Sheehy and Elizabeth Warren have introduced a bipartisan bill to enshrine a right to repair for military equipment. The legislation, called the “Warrior Right to Repair Act,” would codify the right-to-repair provisions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put in place through the Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform memorandum from April 30. The Department of Defense has not been immune from restrictive practices set forth by manufacturers, and much like the average consumer,

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Microsoft July 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 137 flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-26 01:30:56

Today is Microsoft's July 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 137 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server. This Patch Tuesday also fixes fourteen "Critical" vulnerabilities, ten of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, one is an information disclosure, and two are AMD side channel attack flaws. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 53 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 8 Security Fe

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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

news.ycombinator.com Liam Proven 2025-08-25 19:35:27

Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users. It is very rare for an article on The Register to cause friends of mine to contact me and anxiously ask if they should change their choice of tech, but SJVN's recent column, "Firefox is dead to me," did it. Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed

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AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 00:49:12

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Someone Is Calling Trump Officials Using an AI Clone of Marco Rubio’s Voice

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-26 01:35:25

Government employees keep getting calls from Secretary of State Marco Rubio—which would be bad enough, frankly, having to talk to that guy. But making matters worse, it seems that it’s not actually Marco Rubio but instead, an unidentified caller who is mimicking his voice with artificial intelligence software, according to a report from the Washington Post. The technologically advanced crank caller has reportedly contacted at least three foreign ministers, a governor, and a member of Congress,

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Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-26 01:41:00

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new Gmail feature that is designed to help users easily manage their subscriptions and declutter their inboxes. The new “Manage subscriptions” tool is rolling out on the web, Android, and iOS in select countries. With the new feature, users can view and manage their subscription emails in one place and quickly unsubscribe from the ones they no longer want to receive. Users can view their active subscriptions, organized by the most frequent send

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Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 04:42:34

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Popular UV Manicure Lamps Might Be Frying Your Skin at the Molecular Level

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-26 05:20:56

UV LED nail lamps are very trendy right now, allowing people to quickly wrap up their manicures at the salon or in the comfort of their own home. But it now appears that these products can come at a potentially serious cost. Scientists in Argentina led the study, which examined how the UV dose emitted by a modern manicure lamp affected common skin molecules. They found that just a few minutes of exposure altered these molecules in ways that could be harmful to skin. Though the long-term health

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Apple COO Jeff Williams is retiring this year

The Entire Run of ‘Squid Game’ Is Currently Dominating Netflix Ratings

Starlink Is Coming to Phones in 2 Weeks. Check Whether You'll Get It for Free

Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

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Jeff Bezos sells $666 million in Amazon stock as part of plan to unload 25 million shares

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‘Superman’ Soars

Sorry If You Already Own One, but the Surface Pro Is Going for Peanuts This Prime Day

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Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth

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