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Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway: HTTP 402 Finally Gets a Job
Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway lets sites charge AI agents per request for pages, APIs, and MCP tools — settled in stablecoins over x402.
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Encrypted RCS Isn't as Easy as Expected
iOS 26.5 ships encrypted RCS, but actually seeing the lock icon in a conversation requires three things to line up — and only one of them is on the iPhone side. Most Android contacts won't get there without being asked.
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Fitbit Air Hits WHOOP's Form Factor at a Fraction of the Cost
Google unveiled a screenless $99 Fitbit Air on May 7, with shipments starting May 26. The form factor mirrors WHOOP. The pricing does not: the Fitbit Air sells the hardware once for $99 with the subscription optional, while WHOOP sells only annual memberships starting at $199 that bundle the hardware in.
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iOS 26.5 Ships Encrypted RCS to All Big Three US Carriers
Apple released iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 on May 11, 2026. The headline change is a beta of end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging — and AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon are all signed on day one. The download is also unusually large: roughly 11 GB on an iPhone 16 Pro.
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Crown Castle Fiber Sale Closes: What Customers Should Do
Crown Castle closed the $8.5B sale of its Fiber Solutions and Small Cells businesses on May 1. Zayo gets the fiber, EQT's Arium Networks gets the small cells. Bundled customers now have two counterparties. Practical guidance for IT teams with active Crown Castle MSAs.
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Cloudflare 1,100, Meta 8,000: Tech's AI Layoff Week
Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs the same week its Q1 revenue grew 34% and beat estimates. Meta confirmed 8,000 cuts on $201B in 2025 revenue. The layoffs are real; 'AI did it' is part of the answer, not the whole one.
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Hormuz's Three-Month Clock: Helium, Fertilizer, and Chips
Steve Keen told the Diary of a CEO audience the world was three months from a famine because Iran had blocked the Strait of Hormuz. The headline is overstated. The underlying supply-chain math — for helium, fertilizer, memory chips, and the AI build-out that depends on all of them — is more interesting and runs on a longer clock than three months.
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Amazon Plans $42 Billion Bond Sale to Fund AI Buildout
Amazon is marketing up to $42 billion in bonds across dollar and euro markets — the largest corporate bond offering in recent memory — to fund its AI infrastructure expansion.
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Accenture Buys Speedtest and Downdetector for $1.2 Billion
Accenture is acquiring Ookla — the company behind Speedtest and Downdetector — from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion in cash. Ziff Davis paid $15 million for Ookla in 2014.
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The $1,079 PC Is Now $3,223
A radiologist asked me to price out the same compact workstation he bought last May. The price had tripled. Even the best alternative I could find was 59% more than what he paid ten months ago.