Festivitas lets you decorate your Apple devices with holiday lights and snow

This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.

European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3B euros

Europol announced the seizure of Cryptomixer’s official website, as well as 25 million euros and 12 terabytes of data from the mixer’s service.

Construction workers are cashing in on the AI boom

“I pinch myself going to work every day,” one 51-year-old says of his new supervisor role overseeing 200 workers at a data center site.

Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035

New planned data centers promise to consume even more energy than expected. Meanwhile, a grid monitor is blaming such growth for high electricity prices.

AWS re:Invent 2025: How to watch and follow along live

Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas this week, and you can follow the keynotes live right here.

MKBHD’s wallpaper app Panels is shutting down

From the time Brownlee launched Panels in September 2024, the app struggled to find an audience of its own. “We knew it was niche … and ultimately, we weren’t able to turn it into the vision I had,” Marques Brownlee said.

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research

Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

Zillow drops climate risk scores after agents complained of lost sales

The move is a loss for homebuyers, who through Zillow had ready access to a property’s climate risk scores from First Street.

Shopify resolves outage disrupting merchants on Cyber Monday

Shopify was down for many merchants this morning, preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now.

Apple just named a new AI chief with Google and Microsoft expertise, as John Giannandrea steps down

His replacement is Amar Subramanya, a highly regarded Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google, most recently leading engineering for the Gemini Assistant. It’s a savvy hire, given that Subramanya knows the competition intimately.