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April 2026

Apple Names John Ternus as Next CEO

John Ternus

Apple names John Ternus as next Apple CEO

Ternus joined in 2001 on the Product Design team. Rose through hardware engineering roles: VP of Hardware Engineering (2013), Senior VP (2021), now leading hardware for iPhone, Mac (including Apple Silicon transition), iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, Vision Pro, and more. Expecting great changes at Apple on the path to become an AI innovator! He starts on September 1, 2026.

Good by Tim Apple!

Sources: tweet, tweet

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Strait of Hormuz Blockage & Rising Oil/Electricity Costs

Oil

Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe

The Strait of Hurmuz is still closed — this affects many sectors including fertilizers, aluminum, and of course oil prices, which directly affects electricity — and as a second or third order it affects AI as well. GPU fabs are energy hungry, and the rationing of oil might slow down the AI expansion. Also, training and inference costs might go higher. On the bright side, this will push to accelerate renewable energy. Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam have 20–40 days of gas.

Hurmuz

Cost of electricity in 2026

Sources: tweet, electricity

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More Cybersecurity: Fed Attack, Vercel Hack, China Leak & Mythos Hack

  • 🏦 A Cyberattack on the Fed? Possible as we near real quantum computers and AGI tweet
  • ▲ Vercel Was Hacked tweet
  • 🇨🇳 Chinese Gov Secrets Leaked. A serious cyberattack leaks Chinese government secrets. Sources: tweet, tweet
  • Anthropic Mythos was hacked in the dumbest way possible: hackers, used the URL patterns to find its API (which was public) and then tried a few tokens from a third party eval company tweet
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