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// Tech news at terminal velocity

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End of an Era at Apple & The Accidental AI Leak

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• Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after 15 years, passing the torch to hardware chief John Ternus.

• Apple accidentally shipped internal CLAUDE.md files in a public app, revealing they use Anthropic's AI for coding.

• Microsoft is bringing a specialized "Legal Agent" to Word to handle contract reviews and redlining.

Headlines & Launches

🍎 Tim Cook Passes the Torch

After 15 years of supply chain mastery and trillion-dollar milestones, Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO this September. Hardware engineering lead John Ternus is taking the helm, inheriting a massive roadmap and a looming chip shortage.

Source: The Verge

⚖️ Microsoft Word Gets a Law Degree

Microsoft is launching a specialized "Legal Agent" for Word that actually understands contract review and redlining. Instead of shoehorning a general LLM into legal work, they built a structured system that plays nice with track changes.

Source: Legal IT Insider

🧹 Dyson's New Robot Vacuum... Without a Dyson Motor

Dyson just dropped its first combo robot vacuum and mop, the Spot + Scrub Ai. In a shocking twist for a company whose entire identity is built on spinning things really fast, they opted to use someone else's motor for this one.

Source: The Verge

💰 Skio Sells for $105M Cash

Subscription billing startup Skio just sold to competitor Recharge for a cool $105 million in cash. Not bad for a Y Combinator alum that only raised $8 million in its lifetime.

Source: TechCrunch

Deep Dives

🕵️‍♂️ Apple's Accidental AI Confession

Apple accidentally left internal CLAUDE.md files inside the latest Apple Support app update. The slip-up gives us a rare peek behind the curtain, revealing that Apple engineers are actively using Anthropic's Claude Code for development and hinting at an internal system dubbed "Juno AI."

Source: News9live

📝 Stop Repeating Yourself to AI

If you're tired of telling your AI coding assistant to "use the App Router" every single session, you need a CLAUDE.md file. A solo developer running 16 apps shares a masterclass on writing an internal wiki that actually saves you 30 minutes of context-setting per chat.

Source: DEV Community

🚗 Are Chinese EVs Actually That Good?

China's electric vehicles are packed with screens, AI, and aggressive pricing. Ars Technica takes a hard look at the hype to see if the underlying automotive engineering actually matches the flashy tech specs.

Source: Ars Technica

Engineering & Research

🔐 Cloudflare Quantum-Proofs Your VPN

Cloudflare has made post-quantum encryption for IPsec generally available using hybrid ML-KEM. It's a massive step forward in protecting wide-area networks against "harvest-now-decrypt-later" attacks from future quantum computers.

Source: Cloudflare Blog

🎹 Wireless MIDI on Windows That Doesn't Suck

A frustrated developer built an open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack. Finally, you can use your wireless keyboard with your DAW without wanting to throw your PC out the window.

Source: Hacker News

💻 Taming the Copilot CLI

GitHub dropped a handy guide on mastering the Copilot CLI, specifically breaking down the nuances between interactive and non-interactive modes. Perfect for when you can't remember that one obscure bash command.

Source: GitHub Blog

Odds & Ends

🌐 Check Your Ego at the Domain Name

A gentle, philosophical reminder that your personal or company website should be designed to serve your users, not to stroke your own ego.

Source: Hacker News

📸 India Loves ChatGPT Images

While the rest of the world is somewhat lukewarm on ChatGPT Images 2.0, users in India are absolutely devouring the feature to create cinematic portraits and personal avatars.

Source: TechCrunch

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