Last winter, Anthropic announced Claude Code. Now, the AI company is making it easier for developers to use Claude Code in more places by putting up a new web interface to access the agent. Engadget.com reports that Anthropic is also releasing a preview of the agent inside its iOS app. The company has given users a warning that the mobile version is an early integration, which will be quickly refined based on user feedback. Pro and Max users can start using Claude Code on the web today. Anthropic notes any cloud sessions share the same rate limits with all other Claude Code usage.

The new iPhone 17 models are a hit for Apple. This year’s models around outselling last year’s iPhone 16 series by 14% in the first 10 days of availability in both the US and China. According to macrumors.com, this is new sell-through data from Counterpoint Research. The firm said the overall uplift is being led by stronger upgrades to the standard ‌iPhone 17‌, particularly in China, and by higher uptake of the iPhone 17 Pro Max among U.S. carrier customers based on enhanced subsidy plans. In China, the base iPhone 17 nearly doubled compared to the iPhone 16 based on the same initial period. The 17 Pro Max is ahead of the 16 for the initial period, in no small measure due to the big three carriers increasing maximum subsidies by about $100. 

SpaceX has notched a major milestone. They have launched the 10,000th Starlink satellite. Arstechnica.com notes that the benchmark came when two Falcon 9 rockets took off from spaceports in Florida and California Sunday afternoon, adding 56 more satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. Actually, now there are 10,006 in orbit…including a few dozen demo satellites. Starlink passed 7 million global subscribers in August.

There was a huge outage early this morning for Amazon Web Services. Geekwire.com says the outage took down several major sits and services. Thankfully it was not due to a cyberattack, but an internal issue within the cloud giant’s infrastructure. Facebook, Coinbase, Amazon, and even check-in kiosks at LaGuardia airport were affected. Amazon pinned the outage on a failure of an “underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers.” Tech experts say that this outage indicates that many sites have not adequately implemented the redundancy needed to fall back to other regions or other providers in the event of AWS outages. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.