NOVA PRESENTS: “ALL OF US AT ONCE” A Special 90-Minute Crossover Event “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates “The unedited life is not worth watching.” — Someone who works in television FADE IN: COLD OPEN INT. VOID — UNDEFINED SPACE — UNDEFINED TIME Black. Not the black of a room with the lights off. The black of a room that has never had lights. The black of a hard drive that has never been written to. ...
Meta is officially done playing nice with UK regulators. The social media giant has launched a formal challenge against the UK media regulator’s proposed online safety fees, arguing that the compliance costs being imposed on platforms are excessive, arbitrary, and threaten innovation. This isn’t just another corporate complaint about bureaucratic overreach—it’s a watershed moment that signals how the entire tech industry calculates the true cost of regulation, and whether governments can actually enforce compliance without triggering a full-scale revolt from the companies they’re trying to regulate. ...
The semiconductor industry just experienced a seismic shift, and it barely made a dent in your news feed. According to Reuters, SK Hynix is being flooded with unprecedented offers from major tech firms—Apple, Meta, and others—desperately trying to lock in chip supplies. This isn’t just supply-and-demand theater. This is a structural realignment of how the world’s most powerful companies source the silicon that powers AI, smartphones, and data centers. And it matters because it signals something the industry has been dancing around for years: the old semiconductor order is breaking. ...