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Apple Retires the Classic Macintosh HD Icon: A Look Back at its 25-Year History
AI-Data & Emerging Tech

Apple Retires the Classic Macintosh HD Icon: A Look Back at its 25-Year History

The debut of a new developer beta for macOS 26 Tahoe happens today at Apple, along with a giant makeover of a well-known icon. Thus, the old classic Macintosh HD hard drive icon, which for years was an image of an old spinning hard drive, has now been updated to present something which clearly tries to resemble a solid-state drive. Although an actual SSD in your Mac is far from looking like a few chips soldered on a circuit board, that can be overlooked.  With the new installations of macOS ceasing to show the internal disk on the desktop by default, a few years ago, the old Macintosh HD icon began to disappear from sight entirely. Furthermore, it has indeed been some time since Apple switched to SSDs for booting new Macs. The original hard drive icon was introduced in 2000, coinci...
ChatGPT to Receive OpenAI’s New Mental Health Safeguards After Reports of Harm
AI-Data & Emerging Tech

ChatGPT to Receive OpenAI’s New Mental Health Safeguards After Reports of Harm

Simultaneously introducing ChatGPT improvements meant to boost the capacity of the AI chatbot to detect and adjust new mental health safeguards for emotional anguish, OpenAI is expected to reveal its GPT-5 AI model this week. Achieving this, OpenAI is partnering with experts and advisory committees to improve ChatGPT’s responses in given situations so that it may provide ‘evidence-based resources when appropriate.’ Recent reports have highlighted stories from people whose loved ones have experienced mental health crises, wherein interactions with the chatbot seemed to worsen their hallucinations. In April, OpenAI rolled back an update that made ChatGPT too amiable, even in potentially dangerous situations. The company then admitted that the chatbot’s “sycophantic interactions can be unc...
New Data from BLS Show a Deeper IT Sector Slowdown
Tech Industry News

New Data from BLS Show a Deeper IT Sector Slowdown

So far in 2025, the job market for IT jobs in the United States has not shown great strength; downward revisions to the Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics for May and June indicate that job losses in July are part of the IT sector slowdown than had been earlier believed. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed little job increase last month, the weak payroll growth statistics obscured a more troubling problem. A significant percentage of the employment growth recorded for May and June was erroneous. Amidst U.S.-China trade war, the domestic mine project has increased the number of labourers. According to the BLS, May's statistics called for an IT sector slowdown revision of 125,000 jobs, hence resulting in only 19,000 jobs being added; June’s figures were adjusted even furt...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Confirmed to Feature New Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip
Business Strategy & Innovation

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Confirmed to Feature New Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip

The firmware retrieved for the upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra has revealed a chipset model called PMK8850, which strongly points to the presence of Qualcomm’s next-generation flagship System on Chip (SoC), new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 chip. Expected to be marketed especially as a Galaxy edition, tailored for Samsung hardware. The S25 Ultra, by contrast, employed the 8750 chip; the introduction of this fresh 8850 model number suggests a straight pedigree and an evident technological advancement. Further leaks that suggest the S26 Ultra will debut with the most recent software platform available, that is, firmware references to One UI 8.5 based on Android 16, are bolstering this transition. Analysts have also pointed out that Samsung might manufacture this Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 chip in-hous...