James Howells, a British IT worker, mined over 7,500 Bitcoins back in 2009, when they were worth next to nothing. Now a single Bitcoin is worth nearly $100,000, valuing his stash at well over $700 million. Unfortunately, Howells accidentally threw the hard drive he stored the key on in the trash. He has a scheme to get that money back, according to The Guardian. He wants to buy the landfill where it could be buried and dig it up.

Howells doesn’t exactly know where the hard drive is, but has a solid guess based on when he tossed it in the trash. He has it narrowed down to a particular section of a South Wales landfill that houses 15,000 metric tons of waste. The landfill is approaching maximum capacity, so Howells wants to buy it off the city. Officials have warned that the hard drive is “buried under 25,000 cubic meters of waste and earth” as it has been there for almost 12 years.

Apple’s about to launch its next iPhone SE, but later this year the flagship iPhone 17 lineup will arrive. A new rumor has just indicated the iPhone 17 Pro Max will come with a key display advantage: a Dynamic Island that may be substantially smaller.

Smaller Dynamic Island will be exclusive to 17 Pro Max

For a while now, analyst Jeff Pu has predicted that the iPhone 17 Pro Max would feature a substantially reduced Dynamic Island.

Recently though, Ming-Chi Kuo said he expected all iPhone 17 models to have the same size Dynamic Island.

South Korea has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of sharing user data with the owner of TikTok in China.

”We confirmed DeepSeek communicating with ByteDance,” the South Korean data protection regulator told Yonhap News Agency.

The country had already removed DeepSeek from app stores over the weekend over data protection concerns.

The Chinese app caused shockwaves in the AI world in January, wiping billions off global stock markets over claims its new model was trained at a much lower cost than US rivals such as ChatGPT.

New renders of an iPhone 17 Pro Max with a massive camera bar are going around, and not only are they an incredible departure from Apple design, they’re from unreliable sources.

Apple is out of space for its camera system, so a camera bar that reaches across the back of the device may help provide more needed space. The idea of a camera bar isn’t new, as Google Pixel employs one, and there’s no way of knowing if Apple will actually implement one.

That said, the current renders show an impractically large camera bar that is just an extended version of the camera bump. The latest hail from Jon Prosser and his current render artist Asher Dipprey.

On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a roadmap for how the company plans to release GPT-5, the long-awaited followup to 2023’s GPT-4 AI language model that made huge waves in both tech and policy circles around the world. In a reply to a question on X, Altman said GPT-5 would be coming in ”months,” suggesting a release later in 2025.

Initially, Altman explained in a long post on X, the company plans to ship GPT-4.5 (previously known as ”Orion” internally) in a matter of ”weeks” as OpenAI’s last non-simulated reasoning model. Simulated reasoning (SR) models like o3 use a special technique to iteratively process problems posed by users more deeply, but they are slower than conventional large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o and not ideal for every task.

WHEN THE CHINESE hacker group known as Salt Typhoon was revealed last fall to have deeply penetrated major US telecommunications companies—ultimately breaching no fewer than nine of the phone carriers and accessing Americans’ texts and calls in real time—that hacking campaign was treated as a four-alarm fire by the US government. Yet even after those hackers’ high-profile exposure, they’ve continued their spree of breaking into telecom networks worldwide, including more in the US.