"Fire Is... Beautiful": Suspect In Spokane Wildfire Confesses He Planned Arson For Weeks

Tim Cook Stepping Down As Apple CEO; John Ternus, Head Of Hardware, Will Take Over Confirming long-standing rumors of Tim Cook's replacement, after hours Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO and become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directorsm while John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering whose name has been speculated as the next boss of Apple, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026. The transition was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors. Cook will continue in his role as CEO...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay and threatened to attack the Cuban government if it acquired weapons that could strike the American military facility or homeland.  “It would be unwise of the government of Cuba to try to procure or get access to the types of weapons […]

Nadella's Hedge: Microsoft Wants To Make AI Models Cheap - Then Own The Rails They Run On The entire AI capital cycle - roughly $700 billion in hyperscaler capex this year, an estimated $2 trillion-plus through 2028 - is collateralized by one belief: that intelligence is scarce, and therefore priceable. That belief is already under strain. Per-token inference prices have fallen on the order of 200× in a year, and the only thing holding revenue up is volume; the cost of intelligence is dropping even as the cost of deploying...