Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..." They are spread across the country and throughout the economy, working in every ..

In this week's Sunday Reboot, an iPhone 17 Pro Max goes underground for a very, very long time. America 250 Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. Continue Reading on AppleInsider Discuss on our Forums

The annual speedrunning marathon event ran from July 5-11.

Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific," reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously." Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year.... it can actually be a huge ..

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Sam Altman insisted that Elon Musk was again obsessed with him because of an OpenAI model release earlier this week.

China introduces mandatory solar efficiency standards that could remove outdated factories, reduce oversupply, and reshape competition across the photovoltaic industry.

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LG Electronics has launched its LG Professional Laundry lineup globally, featuring large-capacity washers and dryers debuting in Europe this month, followed by Asia and North America.

In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says its fighting monopolies.

Ukraine exported 2,000 F10 attack drones to the United States after securing approval through its existing export control framework and Pentagon contract.

LIAN LI's new UNI FAN FLEX Series features 4 models with flexible controls via L-Wireless, USB, or motherboard sync. LCD variants also gets a 1.8-inch screen and 512MB flash for customization.

Called "Muse Image," this proposed tool would have allowed users to use public-facing Instagram photos as references for generative AI.

"Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X," reports CNBC, "highlighting the billionaires' long-standing tussle over OpenAI's evolution." This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI debuted its own GPT-5.6 Sol. For days, Musk and Altman have hyped up their respective releases, but on Saturday the rivalry got personal. In response to a post about Apple filing suit against OpenAI on Friday over alleged theft of trade secrets, Musk wrote, "Scam ..

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SIBS@ASEAN 2026 Bandung Edition was officially held on 9 July, bringing 400+ delegates from Malaysia and Indonesia together for bilateral trade and investment talks.

Vintage games can be hard to find, but Nintendo GameCube titles are exceptionally elusive.

The MLBB x Street Fighter 6 collaboration event "ROUND1" is live, bringing Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and Guile skins plus a free Joy skin to the Land of Dawn.

SanDisk's BiCS10 chip enables denser, faster NAND storage, paving the way toward costly future 512TB drives.

Sony's decision to drop physical media from 2028has caused a customer revolt, and everything the company does is overwhelmed by the backlash. Will it listen to lessons from history on how to turn this around?

The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech: SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given the current market demand, they will fall way short of fulfilling the market demand, and that will continue beyond 2030. The comments from SK Hynix are in line with what Samsung and Micron executives have already said. Samsung has warned of 2027 ..

Microsoft wants to deepen Android integration and make it more seamless on Windows.

Thanks to upcoming EU regulations, the next Apple Pencil could feature replaceable batteries.

The Razer Kraken Kitty V2 BT Cinnamoroll Edition rounds up the Cinnamoroll Edition lineup, being the sole model to be available here in Malaysia via select retail channels.

The company is pushing back against the latest legislative attempts to control the internet.

The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement. "The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups." Their cause is now riding a surge of anti-AI backlash. Many Americans are souring on the technology amid mass layoffs, ..

Lenovo has added the RTX 5070 12GB GPU to its Legion 7a gaming laptop, allowing you finally configure it with something better than an RTX 5060. It's very expensive at $3,375 but you're getting a genuinely premium machine for that price and an upgraded RTX 5070 that's not limited to just 8GB of VRAM.

"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers: Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but COSMIC has been all-in on Rust since the very beginning, and COSMIC 1.1 finally stripped all the leftovers of C language from the desktop. It no longer has any traces of Nautilus (the GNOME file manager), and then there's now a COSMIC-native system ..

The Chinese company is allowed to sell its impressive phones in the States, but it doesn't. Here's why.

Irelands data centers consumed 23% of the countrys electricity in 2025, rising 10% in one year despite restrictions on new grid connections.

It takes years to tape out a chip and bring it to market, with overall industry seismic shifts taking much less time. Nothing will demonstrate that better than the rumored six-month gap between the M6 processor debut and the AI-focused M7. With no M6 Pro or M6 Max on the horizon, don't expect much from the Mac Studio. Apple's chip lines have gradually become more AI-centric , and that will be the same in the future too. However, rather than sticking to an established release format, Apple's ..

We've been telling you this for years Apple Car research wasn't lit on fire, and the fruits of Apple's labor on it will be seen in artificial intelligence performance in the M7 and M8 processor. 16-inch MacBook Pro will be the first to get M7 Pro processors Before AI used to be called Apple's biggest failure , that title went to the Apple Car which was cancelled after ten years of development and ten billion dollars of investment. AppleInsider argued at the time that Apple Car research would ..

A set of updates for Sega Dreamcast hardware has been merged into the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel this weekend.

Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register. "The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%" mostly due to datacenter construction and a decision to stop purchasing some renewable energy certificates: In 2020, Microsoft set itself the goal of becoming "carbon-negative" by 2030. Its own figures show emissions heading only upwards, from 13 ..

The iPad Pro with M6 is expected in early 2027 and Apple may release upgraded Apple Pencil models with easier-to-replace batteries in time for new EU regulations. EU regulations will force Apple to rethink Apple Pencil design The European Union mandated in 2023 that consumer electronics must have easily replaced batteries by 2027. One of Apple's notoriously impossible-to-repair products is the Apple Pencil, which could see some design changes to meet this mandate. According to the "Power On" ..

Asus' fancy dual-interface M.2 enclosure is marked down to its lowest price ever on Amazon right now. Not only is it fast, but it also looks clean and has extra on-the-go convenience thanks to its metal hook and strap.

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