Apple’s iPhone revenue jumps to $57 billion despite chip shortages

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride. The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday evening. The bill didn't include the hotly debated warrant requirement, but it did feature a provision

One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary API costs, and degraded reasoning caused by environmental noise.  To overcome this challenge, researchers at Alibaba introduced Hierarchical Decoupled Policy Optimization (HDPO), a reinforcement learning framework that trains agent

Linux is having a very busy year.

This marks Amazon's first streaming deal with a college team.