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Mac RumorsApr 25, 2025
The MacRumors Show: Latest iPadOS 19 and iPhone 17 Air Rumors
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the rumored look of the iPhone 17 "Air" and iPadOS 19's major productivity update.


PC World Latest NewsApr 25, 2025
Intel's older CPUs are being snapped up. Well, duh

For years, the mantra in the tech world has been, buy the latest and greatest. The newer, the better. And for some companies, like AMD and Qualcomm, that's been true.

Not anymore. Intel told Wall Street analysts Thursday that it's selling out of its "Raptor Lake" processors and that the process technology they're built upon, Intel 7, is constrained. Put another way, Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner told analysts that Intel is selling more of its years-old 12th- and 13th-gen Raptor Lake (and Raptor Lake Refresh) chips than Lunar Lake.

That's embarrassing, to be sure. But it caps off years of struggles, which some might say date back to Intel's inability to move off of the 14nm node for several generations. Is it any surprise that Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, believes that Intel's organizational structure is bloated?

Maybe, but to most people in technology, the answer is simple: if you deliver processors that don't improve over their predecessors, why should you expect customers to buy your newest and most expensive chips? Instead, they'll turn to your older, cheaper processors. And that's what Intel says is happening — especially with the tariff typhoon blowing hard.



EngadgetApr 24, 2025
Meta finally acknowledges that Facebook has a major spam problem
Meta is finally acknowledging that Facebook's feed is filled with too many spammy posts. In an update, the company says it plans to start "cracking down" on some of the worst offenders. "Facebook Feed doesn't always serve up fresh, engaging posts that you consistently enjoy," the company writes. "We're working on it."

Specifically, Meta says it will lower the reach of creators that share posts with "long, distracting captions" as well as posts with captions that are irrelevant or unrelated to the shared content. These accounts will also no longer be eligible for monetization. Likewise, the company says it's taking "more aggressive" steps to combat "spam networks that coordinate fake engagement." This includes making comments from these accounts less visible, and removing Facebook pages meant to "inflate reach." Meta is also testing a feature that allows users to anonymously downvote comments in order to flag them as not "useful."

The update comes as Meta is trying to revamp Facebook to make it more appealing to "young adults." The company recently brought back a tab for friends content, in an update Mark Zuckerberg described as making the platform more like "OG Facebook." Notably though, Meta's update doesn't mention one of the more persistent forms of engagement bait that's emerged on Facebook over the last year: AI slop.

The phenomenon, which has been


PC World Latest NewsApr 24, 2025
Intel customers are buying up all its older CPUs to beat tariffs

Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner told analysts on Thursday that Intel sold more volume in its Raptor Lake chips than Lunar Lake, suggesting that customers preferred the higher-performance Raptor Lake chips that debuted in 2023 versus the latest Lunar Lake chip that launched last September.

Meanwhile, Zinsner suggested that Intel's future is extremely uncertain, due to the Trump administration's varying economic policy. "The very fluid trade policies in the U.S. and beyond, as well as regulatory risks, have increased the chance of an economic slowdown with the probability of a recession growing," Zinsner said. "This makes it more difficult to forecast how we will perform for the quarter and for the year, even as the underlying fundamentals supporting growth I discussed earlier remain intact."

Zinsner also gave an enormous range for the company's spending plans of between $8 billion and $11 billion, because Intel doesn't know what the future of the CHIPS Act might be.

Older, cheaper, higher-performance Intel CPUs are the favorite The surprise, however, was how Intel's customers are dealing with tariffs — simply buying older products instead. Intel executives said that the Intel 7 process — the foundation of the Raptor Lake chips — was constrained, and so was production of the chip itself. That's because customers

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