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17 Jun

iFixit’s Trump T1 Teardown Exposes Made-in-USA Marketing Myth

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iFixit's Trump T1 Teardown Is the Real Made-in-USA Audit A gold-painted smartphone that boots up with a competitor's motherboard inside is not a hardware failure—it's a marketing one. iFixit's teardown of the Trump T1 didn't just confirm what skeptics suspected; it documented, with CT scans and a successful motherboard swap test, that Trump Mobile sold 590,000 pre-orders on a promise the supply chain never delivered. The only components original to the T1 are cosmetic: a paint job, a logo, and a battery with worse charging specs than its donor device. Everything else—processor, display, camera array, antenna design—came from an HTC…

13 Jun

The Government Kill Switch in Every AI Contract

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The Government Kill Switch Hidden in Every AI Contract On a Tuesday that will matter far more than most in tech, Anthropic suspended all customer access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 following a directive from the U.S. government. No warning. No gradual deprecation. No migration period. Just: these models are gone, effective immediately, to comply with national security concerns. This wasn't a product recall. It was a kill switch—and it's the moment enterprise AI deployment stopped being a straightforward product decision and became a geopolitical liability. Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash The Real Story Isn't About These Two…

30 May

Apple’s Foldable iPhone Manufacturing Wall

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Apple's Foldable iPhone Hits Manufacturing Wall—Three Months to Prove Samsung Wrong Apple's September 2026 foldable iPhone launch is now a race against the calendar. The company faces serious surface mount technology (SMT) yield problems in pre-assembly that it has exactly three months to solve before mass production kicks off in July. Meanwhile, Samsung—which has spent six years refining folding screens, hinges, and manufacturing workflows—is watching from a position of competitive luxury that Apple itself enabled by waiting this long. This isn't a story about whether Apple can make a foldable phone. It's about whether Apple can ship millions of them…