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Telegram is back on Apple's App Store after what appears to have been a brief removal. The messaging platform confirmed the restoration, though details around why the app was pulled in the first place remain thin. It's a reminder of just how much leverage Apple holds over any service that depends on its platform.
Shifting to the AI front, the competition between Chinese and American model makers is intensifying in ways that are hard to ignore. Alibaba has launched Qwen three point eight Max, a two point four trillion parameter model that independent benchmarks suggest can go head to head with offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI. Combined with DeepSeek's latest release just days prior, the pressure on American labs is mounting fast.
And on a lighter but genuinely fascinating note, someone has been wrestling with Windows XP for the Itanium processor, a platform so obscure and so temperamental that the write-up is titled, with considerable honesty, Unbridled Rage. It has drawn real attention on Hacker News, which says something about how many engineers share fond and deeply painful memories of that particular era in computing history.
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