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Apple's biggest developer event of the year is nearly here. WWDC two thousand twenty six kicks off this week, and all eyes are on what the company will do with Siri, iOS twenty seven, and its broader Apple Intelligence push. The question isn't whether AI features are coming — it's whether they'll feel meaningfully different from what rivals already offer.
From Cupertino to Capitol Hill, the UK's Prime Minister is drawing a hard line with tech platforms. Keir Starmer has given companies an ultimatum to block explicit images from reaching children's phones, raising immediate questions about how that's technically enforced, who defines the rules, and whether encryption becomes collateral damage in the process.
And for anyone who's followed the open-source world for a while, there's a fascinating long read out this week on the origins of CentOS. Founder Gregory Kurtzer tells the story of how a small group of Linux fans, frustrated with Red Hat's direction back in two thousand three, quietly built what became enterprise computing's most trusted free operating system. It's a reminder that the infrastructure the world runs on often starts as somebody's side project.
Stay curious, keep asking the harder questions. Tech Beat out.
