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It's important to remember that two decades ago, text messages cost 10 cents. Each. Back when we measured our cell phone plans in minutes, and when even 3G connections felt fast, text messages were a huge business for wireless carriers and a huge expense for anyone whose kids learned to T9-type just a little too quickly. Then BlackBerry, nearing the peak of its powers, did something remarkable: it cut the carriers out entirely.

Mosseri said Instagram needs to adapt to changing user habits, noting that more people now watch videos on their TVs. He acknowledged that not developing a TV app earlier was a missed opportunity, adding that Instagram now aims to deliver a strong presence across all major devices. He added that if people are watching more on TV, then the company needs to be there too.

The feature expands on existing functionality already available in Chrome's Safety Check feature, which revokes camera and location permissions from websites you don't visit anymore. The company tacitly admits that browser notifications, as designed, might have been a bad idea, saying that its own data shows users receive a high volume of notifications, but rarely interact with them. Less than 1% of all notifications receive any interactions from users, notes Google.

As a matter of fact, on Thursday, the Google (GOOGL)-owned site said it's launching a feature that lets permanently removed users apply to create a new channel. This is a big change from YouTube's older policy, which banned creators for life. In a blog post, the company said, "We know many terminated creators deserve a second chance," and shared that it wants to help these users start fresh and return to the platform.

This week, AST SpaceMobile signed an ongoing agreement with Verizon to provide direct-to-cellular AST SpaceMobile service when needed for Verizon customers starting next year, enabling Verizon customers to stay connected even when outside of the footprint of Verizon's terrestrial mobile network. The agreement follows successful voice and video calls testing - as well as two-way RCS messaging - between standard, unmodified smartphones and a BlueBird satellite in space.

We've heard loud and clear from our creator community that they want more options to return to YouTube. So we're happy to share that we're introducing a pilot program to offer some qualified creators an opportunity to rebuild their presence on YouTube.

Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, in a move that was nervously received by the developer community at the time. The company has mostly remained independent at Microsoft since then, but the resignation of former CEO Thomas Dohmke less than two months ago has shaken up how GitHub operates. GitHub is now gearing up for a huge migration over to Microsoft's own Azure servers, just months after Dohmke's resignation memo.

The Cisco 8223, announced on Wednesday, is a 51.2 Tbps router powered by its in-house Silicon One P200 ASIC. Combined with 800 Gbps coherent optics, Cisco says the platform can support spans up to 1,000 kilometers. Connect up enough routers, and Cisco says the architecture can theoretically achieve an aggregate bandwidth of three exabits per second. That's more than enough to connect even the largest AI training clusters today.

Elon Musk and X have settled with four former top executives at Twitter, including the former CEO, who accused the billionaire of failing to pay $128m in promised severance pay after he acquired the social media company in 2022 and fired them. The former executives say that Musk falsely accused them of misconduct and forced them out of Twitter after they sued him for attempting to renege on his offer to buy the company.

In-context performance data to support incident remediation: Instead of siloed, disconnected data across ITSM and several monitoring and observability platforms, New Relic telemetry data and changes flow directly into the Rovo Ops agent. This enables your service agents to quickly detect anomalies and incidents-like a recent commit being modified-without context-switching between multiple tools. AI-suggested fixes based on past incident data:

( Advanced Micro DevicesNASDAQ:AMD) shocked investors yesterday with a landmark multi-year agreement to supply OpenAI with 6 gigawatts of its Instinct graphics processing units (GPUs), starting with 1 gigawatt in the second half of 2026. The deal, which could generate tens of billions in annual revenue for AMD, includes a warrant allowing OpenAI to acquire up to 160 million shares - roughly 10% of the company - for a nominal fee, tied to deployment milestones and stock price targets up to $600 per share.

The US Federal Communications Commission has launched "Space Month," with Chairman Brendan Carr saying that "we'll replace a default to no at the agency to a default to yes" for satellite licensing requests. The FCC's processes are set for an overhaul, with bespoke licensing being ditched in favor of what Carr called "a licensing assembly line" and a review of sitting rules for Earth stations to facilitate more intensive use of the upper microwave spectrum.

Opal works by getting users to enter a description of the app they want to make, after which the tool uses different Google models to do so. Once the app is ready, users can open the editor panel to view and customize the visual workflow of inputs, outputs, and generation steps. They can click any step to review or edit the prompt, or add new steps manually using Opal's toolbar.

After AMD and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership on Monday, the chatter immediately turned to the unusual way OpenAI would pay for its AMD purchases. It will use AMD's own stock to do so. To recap: OpenAI has agreed to help AMD refine its line of Nvidia competitor chips, the Instinct GPUs, as well as to purchase and deploy 6 gigawatts of compute capacity from AMD over multiple years. AMD said this deal is worth billions in revenue.