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.

Though Tim Cook is shedding his CEO title for the role of Apple's executive chairman, it appears he'll keep one of his most important duties: that of the company's Trump whisperer."As executive chairman, Cook will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world," Apple writes in a press release. Translation: he's sticking around to deal with thorny political relationships - in particular the one with President Donald Trump.Throughout his tenure, Cook has navigated Apple through tricky political terrain. He's had to balance the company's massive business interest in China with US policymak …Read the full story at The Verge.

Running a homelab server sounds like a straightforward task on paper. I have been running my own homelab server on an old PC for over a year now. It often felt like solving one problem just to uncover another. One of the advantages of using a local server is that I can access the services instantly when on the same network. The moment I step outside, that advantage disappears. I have to rely on public domain names through Cloudflare Tunnel to access those services.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I didn’t expect one of my more entertaining gaming experiments this year to start inside Proxmox. Usually, when I spin up a VM, I’m thinking about services, testing, or something useful for my home lab. I’m not expecting to pass through a GPU, boot Windows 11, and end up benchmarking Cyberpunk 2077 on a mini PC. Yet that’s exactly what happened, and the result was a lot better than I had any right to expect.

You can still find the Asus Xbox Ally X and the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus for $999 and $1,049 respectively, but Lenovo's Legion Go S has seemingly given up the fight. The best version of Lenovo's 8-inch handheld now costs nearly double what it did at launch - originally $829.99 last summer, the SteamOS version with Z1 Extreme chip now costs a staggering $1,579.99 at Best Buy. That's an even bigger price hike than with Lenovo's flagship Legion Go 2, which saw up to a $650 price hike early this month. Not every Legion Go S model costs nearly double what it did before, but none are anywhere near what they originally cost. The Windows Z1 Extreme mo …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.

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.