2026-11-12 20:00:37
The Apple Silicon iMac got its fourth refresh this month.
Every other Apple Silicon Mac has found a way to move forward over the last half-decade—we've gotten a more Pro design for the MacBook Pro, a mini-er design for the Mac mini, and a Mac Studio that has finally made Apple admit it doesn't want to make the Mac Pro anymore.
But the Apple Silicon iMac has always been more interested in looking backward. It's the thin, screen-on-a-stand iMac design by way of the original Bondi Blue G3 iMac. It's a clean and pretty desktop computer, one I see all the time in small offices and on TV shows that depict small offices. We're long past the days when it was Apple's primary workstation computer.
2026-11-12 07:10:17
Nvidia’s board is set to decide the future of its founder Jensen Huang after revelations that he had a romantic relationship with a company executive, days after it emerged that he had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
The board held urgent talks on Wednesday night after news broke of the Nvidia chief executive’s relationship with Kimberly Powell, the chipmaker’s vice-president of healthcare, according to people familiar with the matter.
The relationship with an Nvidia employee deepens an already damaging scandal for the $4.2 trillion semiconductor group. Huang on Sunday admitted to having an affair, two days after the FT reported his romantic links to an executive at an Nvidia client, who US officials believe is a Chinese intelligence asset.
2026-11-12 04:32:21
T-Mobile violated a New York state law by imposing a 50GB-per-month data cap and reducing speeds to less than a megabit per second on home Internet plans it is required to offer people with low incomes, New York government officials alleged.
T-Mobile agreed to a settlement requiring it to scrap the data and speed limits, to offer the required low-income plans to more parts of the state, and to make it easier for customers to find information about the plans. The settlement requires T-Mobile to eliminate the speed limits and expand availability of the plans within 120 days.
The alleged legal violation and the settlement are related to T-Mobile's wireless home Internet service, not the company's mobile plans. Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the settlement on Monday, saying that a state investigation found T-Mobile violated the New York Affordable Broadband Act (ABA).
2026-11-12 04:22:03
Anduril Industries has announced the successful demonstration of a new satellite-based sensor designed to track other spacecraft that may be hiding their maneuvers in Earth's shadow.
Funded with Anduril's internal capital, the company's oven-sized satellite launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission in July with a package of tech demo payloads: an edge-compute processor, a power-management system adaptable to different mission types, and a long-wave infrared space sensor capable of detecting other objects in orbit.
Anduril reported on the success of the tech demo mission Tuesday. The company's satellite, named Anduril-216, flies about 590 km (366 mi) above Earth, spending about one-third of each orbit in darkness. Anduril-216's night passes allow its infrared imager to shine.
2026-11-12 03:00:26
Senior NASA officials held a lengthy news conference last weekend, laying out a series of lunar contract awards, new contract opportunities, and mission decisions. They followed one after the other: landers, nuclear-powered rovers, scouting drones, power generation, storage, and communication satellites.
It never seemed to end.
"Hopefully, we're keeping industry on their toes trying to catch up to all the solicitations we're doing," said Carlos García-Galán, manager of the Moon Base Program, more than 90 minutes into the news conference. "This is what it takes to do the Moon Base in the timeline we have set forth."
2026-11-12 02:16:40
Top chip manufacturer TSMC is ready to invest $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI. That would give the Taiwanese chipmaker direct stakes in leading AI developers, even as its own contract chipmaking business has profited enormously from the AI data center buildout.
The chipmaker’s board approved plans to invest up to $500 million in OpenAI preferred stock reserved for large investors and another $500 million to purchase Anthropic common shares at the latter’s expected IPO price, according to Reuters. Such an investment may give markets “a shot of confidence as the artificial-intelligence trade shows signs of strain,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
But analysts also warned that such circular financing among investors, suppliers, and customers has made it difficult to evaluate real market demand for AI-related hardware and services, according to the Journal.
