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A new study is asking an uncomfortable question — are parents more attached to their phones than their children? Research published in Frontiers in Psychology found that kids are noticing, and the emotional toll is real. It's a quiet data point about what we're actually optimizing for in the age of constant connectivity.
Shifting gears, if you've been tracking your AI subscriptions, two thousand twenty six has not been kind to your wallet. A recent analysis documents a wave of quota cuts and price increases across major platforms, including Claude. The pattern suggests the era of loss-leader AI pricing may be quietly closing, and users are absorbing the cost of that correction.
And on the enterprise side, Red Hat is betting that some customers never want to let go of legacy infrastructure. Their new Long-Life Add-On promises RHEL support with, quote, no pre-determined end date. It's a pragmatic acknowledgment that for critical systems, stability often matters more than staying current — and someone will always pay for that peace of mind.
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