How to use Playlist Playground to build Apple Music playlists
Apple Music’s Playlist Playground feature is a prompt-driven playlist builder that’s fast and surprisingly useful, even if it won’t replace a carefully curated mix. Here’s how to start playing, and how well it works. Apple added Playlist Playground to Apple Music on March 24 with iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4. It lets users build playlists […]
AMD to Debut First Zen 6 CPUs With Epyc Venice This Month
AMD will make its first public demonstration of its Epyc Venice server CPUs based on its upcoming Zen 6 architecture this month at the Advancing AI 2026 summit. Set to take place in San Francisco between July 22 and 23, the event will give a range of technology companies, including AMD, an opportunity to show […]
The desktop infrastructure problem that Kubernetes finally solves
Presented by Kasm Technologies Enterprise infrastructure teams have spent the better part of a decade pushing workloads into Kubernetes. Applications, APIs, batch jobs, data pipelines — if it runs in a container, it belongs in the cluster. The operational benefits are well-established: declarative configuration, horizontal scaling, self-healing, native integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling. […]
Meet Intel’s 18A-Based Starfire Orbital Chip Design
In space, no one can hear you churn out AI calculations, but you need the chips to do the job. Intel’s new Starfire is a pitch to be the company behind a new wave of potential orbital AI data centers, per company documentation spotted by a user on X. The chips are based on Intel’s […]
iPadOS 27 & macOS 27 beta 3 get a version 2 update
It’s OS 27 public beta day, but developer beta testers are getting a little treat with version 2 updates of the iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 beta 3 release. While it isn’t clear exactly what Apple might have changed in its second version of macOS 27 beta 3 and iPadOS 27 beta 3, they are […]
Meta Pulls Instagram AI Tool That Turns Your Photos Into Deepfakes Without Permission
Meta has withdrawn its creepy new AI image tool following major public backlash. Muse Image allowed people to generate images using public Instagram posts and profile pictures as references. Users claim this tool manipulates their content without their explicit consent and that this approach poses a probable risk of misuse, harassment, and deepfake‑style edits. Before […]
Like Google’s Project Loon, but for missiles: Ukraine is weaponizing stratospheric balloons to boost strike range
Kyiv has floated more than 1,000 cheap balloons into Russia as decoys, relays, and now even launch platforms, with a balloon-dropped Hornet drone reportedly doubling its strike range to around 300 km The DART missile drops from balloons at 12–18 km and deliberately kills its own navigation in the terminal phase, leaving Russian jammers nothing […]
This Is Why LinkedIn Sucks Now
If you’re online, you know by now that AI slop isn’t limited to visuals-focused social media platforms. Even LinkedIn, an ostensibly career-focused social site, has become absolutely overrun with AI-generated posts, per two separate analyses. Originality.ai and Pangram, two AI checkers, both say that more than 50% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn use AI […]
ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost
Model routing is becoming a key component of the enterprise AI stack, dynamically sending prompts to the right AI model to optimize speed and costs. However, current frameworks mostly treat routing as a static classification problem, which severely limits their potential. A new open-source framework called Agent-as-a-Router tackles this bottleneck, treating the router as a […]
No room in your kitchen for a Ninja Slushi? We tested 3 blenders that make perfect slushies for one for a fraction of the price, and actually fit in your cupboard
The Ninja Slushi is one of my all-time favorite kitchen appliances, but it’s simply too large for my kitchen. Thankfully there are personal blenders that are smaller, cost a lot less, and make perfect slushies for one in just a few seconds — and here I’ve picked three of the best that can tackle ice […]