On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the evidence of alleged price-fixing by Amazon. The state filed a request to the Supreme Court in February for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon's behavior while the lawsuit it originally filed in 2022 proceeds, and is now making that 16-page document available, "largely unredacted." It lays out how Amazon allegedly schemed to raise other retailers' prices ahead of Prime Day, or worked with its vendors to make sure items available at a discount elsewhere were suddenly out of stock and unavailable for the lower price. Bonta says this document shows how the scheme works with Ama …Read the full story at The Verge.

You spent $300 or sometimes more on a motherboard and then $100 a month on 5-bit internet, but your PC is still fighting for bandwidth with your TV's Netflix stream or your phone's background updates. The myth that most people believe is that Ethernet is Ethernet, and then they plug in the cable and never look at the software or specific port specs again. Between Wi-Fi 7, MLO, AI networking 2 and 5 GbE/10 GbE ports, your motherboard has the tools to prioritize your traffic and kill your latency.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has written a letter to the community as he prepares to step down from his role in September. "This is not goodbye. But at this moment of transition, I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you," Cook writes.As part of the shift, John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will take over for Cook, who will become executive chairman. Meanwhile, Johny Srouji is taking over for Ternus and has now been appointed chief hardware officer.You can read Cook's full letter here: To the Apple community:For the past 15 years I've started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and …Read the full story at The Verge.

Following a flurry of rumors, Apple has confirmed that Tim Cook, the tech giant's current CEO, will step down on September 1st, shifting to the role of Executive Chairman on the company's board of directors. Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will take over as Apple's CEO, and Johny Srouji, the current Vice President of Hardware Technologies, will become Chief Hardware Officer.

The long-term risks of the All-In Podcast, illustrated. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid, Getty Images One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he'd made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns out, is structured into language! You could put one word into ChatGPT and it might understand what you wanted, or make up a word and see if it understood what you meant! These amazing new tools have revealed that the English corpus contains so much about its speakers!He concluded that LLMs are a discovery on par with writing. …Read the full story at The Verge.

The conventional power-user wisdom of waiting to install the latest Windows updates is still very relevant, even in 2026. You could argue it's more applicable now than it has ever been, with each passing update seemingly breaking something core to the operating system experience. This isn't a new problem, but the consistency with which it's happening this year is striking, and despite Microsoft's recent written commitment to Windows quality, I'm still delaying Windows 11 updates for as long as possible, or at least until I know they're safe.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will be succeeded by John Ternus, currently Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering. Ternus will take over as CEO and join Apple's board of directors on September 1st, 2026. Cook, who joined Apple in 1998 and took over as CEO from Steve Jobs in 2011, will become executive chairman of Apple's board.Apple has also named Johny Srouji, previously Apple's SVP of hardware technologies, as the company's chief hardware officer, effective immediately. Srouji will "assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering, which John Ternus most recently oversaw, as well as the hardware technologies o …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple has appointed Johny Srouji as its new chief hardware officer, "effective immediately," according to an announcement on Monday. He is stepping into the shoes of current hardware engineering head John Ternus, who will replace Tim Cook as CEO in September, while Cook becomes the chairman of the board.Last December, Srouji reassured his team that he's not "leaving anytime soon" after a flurry of reports suggested he was "evaluating" his future with Apple. However, other notable executives have left Apple over the past year as rumors swirled about Cook's successor, with Sabih Khan taking over for Jeff Williams as chief operating officer a …Read the full story at The Verge.

WhatsApp Plus subscribers will get access to premium sticker packs. | Image: WABetaInfo WhatsApp users are getting some new customization features - for a price. According to WABetaInfo, Meta is rolling out a WhatsApp Plus subscription to "a limited number of users," offering several cosmetic and quality of life perks, including exclusive stickers, different app themes, custom app icons, premium ringtones, the ability to pin up to 20 chats, and the ability to apply custom settings in bulk to lists of chats. A screenshot from WABetaInfo shows the subscription's monthly price as €2.49, or just under $3, similar to Snapchat Plus, which costs $3.99 per month and includes similar perks. WhatsApp Plus is currently only supported in …Read the full story at The Verge.

John Ternus and Tim Cook | Image: Apple The multitrillion-dollar home of the iPhone, Mac, and so many other tech gadgets is getting a new leader this fall, as Apple has announced that Tim Cook will be replaced as CEO on September 1st by current hardware boss John Ternus. How will we look back on Cook’s legacy, and what will Apple look like under the leadership of Ternus and new chief hardware officer Johny Srouji?We’ll keep track of all of the latest updates right here, starting with a live recording of The Vergecast. Read Tim Cook’s letter to the Apple world as he departs as CEO New Apple CEO calls for an emergency Vergecast. Apple names Johny Srouji as chief hardware officer Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down

We, at XDA, absolutely love local LLMs. That "we" didn't really include me for the longest time because I was perfectly happy letting cloud-based models do all the heavy lifting. Why wrestle with quantized weights and a fiddly setup when the results would always feel like a downgrade from what a cloud model hands you for free? So, after trying out a local LLM and being disappointed, I let the first impression be my last for a long, long time.

A good home lab doesn’t fall apart because the hardware is weak. It usually falls apart because you can’t see what’s broken, can’t reach it cleanly, or can’t remember where anything lives once the setup starts to grow. The apps below cover those pressure points better than almost anything else, and together they turn a pile of services into something that actually feels manageable. I’m not calling them the only tools worth using, but these are the ones that earn their keep fast and keep earning it later.