Apple’s Head Engineer for Home Devices Quits Apple Amid Siri

Apple’s Head Engineer for Home Devices Quits Apple Amid Siri

Brian Lynch, the hardware engineer overseeing home devices at Apple, has left Apple for Oura, maker of fitness-tracking rings. No reason has been given for Lynch’s departure, but Apple’s long-awaited, still-non-existent-but-definitely-not-vaporware Siri revamp is the...
Engineer used welding shop air hose to ‘clean’ PCs –

Engineer used welding shop air hose to ‘clean’ PCs –

On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register’s Friday column in which we take great delight in telling your tech support stories – mostly the ones involving bizarre behavior and heroic fixes. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as...
Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot

Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot

Thank heavens for former OpenAI engineers inspired to blog about their time at the famously secretive firm, for without them we would have no idea what a wild mess it is in there.  Calvin French-Owen, who spent a year at OpenAI working on Codex until leaving in June,...