I'm sure that they'll find some new ways for people to buy Bitcoin soon, so they can find another path to expand the pool of buyers.

First it was the crypto exchanges, then came the Bitcoin vending machines, and now you can buy Bitcoin ETF's for your brokerage account and IRA.

I'm not sure what's coming next. The ability to buy preloaded Bitcoin wallets at Costco? I mean, why not? You can already buy gold bullion there.

Knowing Apple, what they really want is for some other big tech company to develop a thought controlled device first.

Then Apple can copy their design, make some small ease of use enhancements, add some rounded curves, slap an Apple logo on the back, and then charge twice as much for it. It's the Apple Way!

The selling prices for NVidia GPU's have been about 30% over the original MSRP already for any new 40X0 or 50X0 series cards since the 50X0 series cards launched.

Does this mean that the prices are going up AGAIN, or was that just a warning that the prices are staying there?

Seems like it might be a good idea to find some new factories to import stuff from... at least for the next 3 1/2 years anyway.

I certainly wouldn't want to rely on Chinese imports right now, considering that you could be spending anywhere from 20% to 200% on tariffs depending on how angry Trump is that given week.

Quite the opposite, the $200 Android version will automatically opt you into sharing all of your location data to advertisers for targeted advertising. I'd imagine that it will also share your pictures for "quality assurance" reasons as well, which will probably get fed in to the AI modeling company who offers the highest winning bid.

And it will all be completely legal, thanks to some well placed campaign donations to the right congressional members.

I'd dumb it down even more, and say that NVidia's real message is: "We don't really care how you use AI, as long as you're buying our GPU's to run it".

I think that you're confusing Siri Specs for the inevitable $200 Android knockoff version that comes 18 months later.

If we learned anything from the Apple Intelligence rollout debacle, it's Apple is deathly afraid of the scenario you just mentioned and neuters the hell out of what the AI can do. If anything, people will get pissed off when they get blocked from adjusting the hemlines on their dress photo by more an an inch.

With the latest CGI improvements, they could probably do most of these scenes in a LA sound stage now with minimal loss of quality. I doubt that on scene shooting is going to be a requirement for Star Wars movies in the future.

The self-service bulk mailing services like Mailgun will tell you how to configure your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correctly, but it's still the senders responsibility to configure it properly. I've seen some really dumb setups in the past, where the client configures DomainA.com as their sending domain but forgets to change the From address on their e-mails to match.

Yeah, I don't think that anybody really thought that all of the auto manufacturers (with the exception of EV makers like Tesla) were going to be ready to fully transition to electric vehicles by 2035. Many of them are just releasing their 1st generation EV products now, and they are outrageously expensive and have terrible range. The new Dodge Charger EV comes to mind as an example... the Scat Pack version costs $75,000, only has a 240 mile range, and can be outperformed by a $55,000 Tesla Model 3 Performance edition.

I have a fast computer, but that doesn't stop Microsoft from launching a ton of additional processes at boot time.

Some of them are pretty simple, and are just fetching things like the latest weather and news updates. Others are more annoying, like injecting ads to "upgrade" to Microsoft Edge or renew your XBox Game Pass subscription.

Instead of a flat fee for each EV, wouldn't it make more sense to charge a tax on the electric usage of EV chargers? That way, you're getting tax revenue proportional to the mileage driven.

I don't think that the game is really dead until Slashdot reports it a third time. THEN you know it's serious.

Yeah, I'm surprised that the 20 somethings on the DOGE team aren't telling them to rewrite in RUST. Isn't that the new programming language hotness right now?

I think that they only give you a week of severance for every year you worked there. At least that seemed to be the going rate when I left, anyway.

IBM also tends to underpay about 15% under the industry average, so you can make up that balance pretty quickly.