With Apple announcing Tim Cook’s upcoming departure as CEO, here are some of the differing opinions I heard recently from former Apple employees and longtime Apple collectors about Cook’s tenure.
[ From my @information-age.bsky.social feature on Apple’s 50th: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026... ]
Incredible news.
Breaking: Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO later this year.
John Ternus will replace him, as expected.
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
For those wondering: Telstra has a contract to run the emergency call system worth up to $22 million per annum, up until mid-2032.
Ever seen an invoice for almost $22 million?
Here's the one Telstra sent the federal government for the cost of running Australia's emergency call services in FY2025.
I love how light on detail or itemisations it appears to be.
[The invoice was just published by the Triple Zero Senate committee]
Snap Inc, best known for its social media platform Snapchat, will cut around 1,000 staff – or 16 per cent of its full-time workforce – as it increases its use of AI in the search for profitability, the company announced on Thursday (AEDT).
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
Banger story here on Apple by @jeremynadel8.bsky.social, after @404media.co revealed last week that the FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone because they were saved in the device's push notifications database.
Anyone have struggling shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI computation business on their 2026 bingo card?
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...
Seen in SF
Bendigo Bank has signalled a new round of job cuts under two new technology partnerships that will grant the bank increased access to “AI talent”.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
They really should have called this the German Grant for Ger-nalism.
The timing on that email was *chef's kiss*
Oracle declined to comment.
Anthropic says an issue “caused by human error” is to blame for the leaking of part of the internal source code for its popular AI coding assistant Claude Code.
It comes as the company signs an agreement with the Australian government, while still reeling from a previous data leak last month.
Are you an Australian Oracle employee caught up in its new round of layoffs? (Or just know more to the story)
You know where to find me: tomwilliams.contact@protonmail.com
Spoke with Wikimedia Australia (@wmau.bsky.social) and a longtime Wikipedia editor and administrator about this banning of AI-generated content.
Details inside. 👇
Apple turns 50 this week, so I interviewed Australian collectors and former staff about which devices they believe have been Apple’s most pivotal, and how the company has changed (for better, or for worse) over the past five decades. 🍎
For @information-age.bsky.social: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
Props to our editor @roulla.bsky.social for backing our stories, and a big shout out to all the other small-ish sites like us which are always aiming high.
Proud to have been nominated in six categories at last night’s IT Journalism Awards, and a big congrats to our regular @information-age.bsky.social contributors @jeremynadel8.bsky.social and David Braue for their highly commendeds and @lennyeggsbenny.bsky.social for his noms as well 👏
you see me wearing this shit you should chop my head clean off like a samurai
Social media giants Meta and YouTube have been found liable for damages worth millions of dollars after a California jury decided the companies had designed platforms which were dangerous for young people, in a case that could influence other similar lawsuits.
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yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos
The prompt for this was just: "Sam Altman pulling the plug on Sora."
The phrases spoken by his likeness were completely generated by Sora/OpenAI.
RIP Sora, we barely knew ya.
Anthropic was asked to comment on the US Department of War case by independent senator @davidpocock.bsky.social during a 12 March Senate committee hearing, but took the question on notice.
The company provided the committee with its written response on 17 March, which was published this week.
New from me: Anthropic says governments “should not resort to threats or retaliation” in dealing with contractors they do not align with, after the US AI firm sued the Trump administration for labelling it a supply-chain risk because it did not agree to new terms for military use of its systems.
The adoption of vision-enabled AI scribes in healthcare would require “robust safeguards to protect patient privacy and data security, particularly given the sensitive nature of video recordings captured during clinical encounters”, the researchers wrote. 👀
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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
