Data from Sensor Tower suggests that app submissions to the App Store have risen steadily over the past few years, after bottoming out at around 420,000 in 2022. Last year, around 600,000 new apps were listed on the App Store, up 30% from 2024. Read Entire Article
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI: “Open-source models that are excellent should be used”
The timing is what makes it interesting. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16. Independent evaluators put it third on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, only behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, and first on LMArena's blind Frontend Code Arena board. Read Entire Article
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt
According to estimates from Nikkei Asia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have together amassed roughly $3 trillion in total debt, a large share of it tied to exorbitant AI infrastructure spending – long-term data center lease agreements, along with costly servers, graphics accelerators, and other computing hardware that has......
Amazon orders Robocop TV series as franchise heads to Prime Video
Robocop has been entertaining audiences for nearly four decades. The first film in the series debuted in 1987, starring Peter Weller as a half-man, half-machine cyborg law enforcement officer. The movie is considered by many as one of the best from the 80s, spawning two sequels as well as a......
Palworld’s 1.0 launch is bringing back nearly a million players
Palworld 1.0 launched on July 10, and players showed their appreciation by flooding its monster-taming world in droves. SteamDB figures show the game peaking at 855,525 concurrent players over launch weekend, then climbing to 961,867 on July 19, its highest count since early 2024 to join in the fun. Read...
Firefox 153 ESR arrives with major productivity, privacy, and enterprise upgrades
Firefox 153 is now the latest Extended Support Release (ESR), rolling up all improvements introduced since Firefox 140. Highlights include profile management, Split View, AI features, stronger privacy protections, web apps, PDF merging and image insertion, HDR video playback, browser-wide containers, and numerous platform and enterprise enhancements. Read Entire Article
France just voted to ban kids under 15 from social media, but Australia’s ban shows how hard that is to enforce
France's Parliament gave final approval on Tuesday to a law banning children under age 15 from social media, with the National Assembly voting 279 to 81 after the Senate had approved the text earlier the same day. The vote followed the Assembly's initial approval of the bill in January by......
One in six Windows PCs still runs Windows 10, and the vulnerabilities are piling up
Asset management company Lansweeper recently sounded the alarm on Windows 10, noting that a lot of organizations still haven't upgraded to Windows 11. A significant portion of PCs, or roughly 17% of all Windows client devices, per Lansweeper's research, are still running Windows 10. Put simply, about one in six......
Der8auer converts $7,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z to custom water cooling, drops temps by 11°C
The modified waterblock, once hooked up to the PC's custom water-cooling loop, brought the operating temperature of the MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z down from 64 degrees to around 53 degrees. That result was measured at 800W under full load, though der8auer believes it would hold up similarly even in......
OpenAI’s ambitious ad revenue goals look like AI-generated money, analysis says
A new market analysis from consulting firm Emarketer casts serious doubt on OpenAI's advertising revenue targets. The company began testing ads in ChatGPT in February, adding another revenue stream as it looks for ways to offset the enormous cost of operating its AI services. Emarketer's forecast suggests that OpenAI's internal......