av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 5, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
At least six National Security Council officials were fired after the right-wing agitator Laura Loomer met with Trump at the White House, two sources confirmed to Semafor.
Trump denied Loomer played a role in the firings, although she came to the White House for her meeting this week armed with “receipts” aimed at proving a number of staffers were disloyal to the president, The New York Times first reported.
The National Security Agency director was also ousted Thursday. The “bloodbath,” as one official described it, raised questions in Trump’s orbit about Loomer’s influence.
Källa: Trump fires top national security officials in ‘bloodbath’
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 4, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Apple today released new 7E101 firmware for the AirPods Max with USB-C, addressing an issuethat made the previously released firmware unable to be downloaded.
Apple yesterday seeded out AirPods Max firmware with a version number of 7E99 to enable lossless audio support, but it turned out that AirPods Max users were not able to download the firmware.
The new 7E101 firmware should now be available to all Apple users who have AirPods Max with USB-C, and the update brings lossless audio and ultra-low latency audio to the headphones.
Källa: Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods Max With Lossless Audio Support
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 4, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Apple today provided developers with the first beta of an upcoming iOS 18.5 update for testing purposes. Work on iOS 18 is starting to wind down with iOS 19 set to be introduced in a couple of months, so iOS 18.5 has just a handful of minor new features.
We’ve rounded up what’s new so far, but Apple could add additional features in upcoming betas.
Källa: Everything New in the iOS 18.5 Beta
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 4, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
AI bots have recently become the scourge of websites dealing with written content or other media types. From Wikipedia to the humble personal blog, no one is safe from the network sledgehammer wielded by OpenAI and other tech giants in search of fresh content to feed their AI models.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation’s internet bandwidth. Demand for content hosted on Wikimedia servers has grown significantly since the beginning of 2024, with AI companies actively consuming an overwhelming amount of traffic to train their products.
Källa: Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 4, 2025 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
At Nintendo’s big Switch 2 Direct, the company revealed the launch date for the new console, and also when preorders would go live. However, the company has now stated that it’s delaying preorders for U.S.-based customers due to the recent tariffs introduced by President Donald Trump. It says will update timing on the preorders later, before the console’s launch worldwide on June 5.
Nintendo’s statement, as seen by GamesBeat, says, “Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”
Källa: Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders in the U.S. over tariff impacts
