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China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hotels into exclusive deals and controlling their prices

China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration...

People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal...

Cricut Explore 5 vs. Siser Romeo: Choosing the Right Smart Cutting Machine (2026)

Friendly hobby machine or serious production tool? Here’s how to know which one is for you.

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”

Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web

Bots now outnumber humans on the internet for the first time in the web’s history. Cloudflare, the security firm that sits in front of millions of websites, says automated traffic crossed the 50...

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth...

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver

Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the second quarter, the largest single-quarter gain on record. CFO Vaibhav Taneja told...

SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears

SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts, SAP announced. Its cloud backlog, a...

AI Browsers Are Backward Because Agents Never Needed The Visual Layer via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

OpenAI killed Atlas because AI browsers were always a workaround. The real fix is a website machines can actually read. The post AI Browsers Are Backward Because Agents Never Needed The Visual Layer...

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic

Here are the best delivery services and meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s meal service, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.

Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming. Amazon is folding Luna into Prime Video. Both admit cloud gaming has not worked yet.

Microsoft and Amazon announced new cloud gaming strategies on the same day, each acknowledging in different ways that the category has not reached the audience they expected. Xbox will test...

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

The EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Services in Search

The European Commission claims that Google boosted its own apps and products to the top of search rankings to the detriment of its competitors.

Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT

Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight,...

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo...

Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval

"The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.

SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut down. The deal brings Nina’s artists, editorial archive, and music discovery tools...

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party...

Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code

More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.

When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?

Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended.

Intel Foundry lands its first named outside customer: Fortinet

The two companies announced a strategic collaboration to build the Fortinet Security Processor 6, the custom silicon inside its FortiGate firewalls. Intel will handle the chip design, advanced...

Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.

Google Is Bringing Local Services Ads Into Google Ads via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

Google is moving Local Services Ads into Google Ads as Performance Max pay-per-lead campaigns, with bidding, reporting, and management changes beginning August 2026. The post Google Is Bringing Local...

Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.

Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software

Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company,...

AI Answers About Your Locations Are Often Wrong – Check Before Customers Do via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Wrong postcodes, closed-business claims, invented services: what vendor tests reveal about AI answers, and how to audit yours across five platforms. The post AI Answers About Your Locations Are Often...

F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport

Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.

The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy

Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive...

Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot

Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, deployed, and secured. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expanded the number of internet-facing assets...

Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is...

France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software

France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed...

Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs, Bail Bonds via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

Apple Maps ads ban home services, crypto ATMs, and bail bonds. Learn which businesses qualify and how advertisers can prepare for the rollout. The post Apple Maps Ads Ban Home Services, Crypto ATMs,...

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like

"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."

A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

Nice PlayStation you got. Bet it could probably run Linux too.

Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console

Great for indie darlings, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo remain kings of TV gaming.

Apple and Google ordered to purge ‘nudify’ apps from App Stores

In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.

AWS Billing Glitch Hits Customers With Billion-Dollar Fees

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars

Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees.

Do The Answer Engines Keep Your Fingerprint, Or Do They Start Fresh Every Time? via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

The fingerprint you pressed into Google's ranking systems now feeds the AI answers on top of them. Here's where it persists and goes dark. The post Do The Answer Engines Keep Your Fingerprint, Or Do...

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines

T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.

Roblox launches Build, a mobile tab that turns text prompts into playable games

Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of...

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google is starting to roll out connected apps in AI Mode, so you can send tasks to services like Canva from a search. The post Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search appeared...

Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion

The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.

Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best

“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab,...

Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services

Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s...

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

Apple bans home services from its upcoming Maps ads

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers,...

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps

A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions

JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on...

Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs

Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken...

Grok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI’s cloud, including committed secrets

A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI’s Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers’ entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed...

Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process

Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. That assumption is fundamental to modern software development, where open...

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and...

6 Best Bidets of 2026: Toto, Brondell, More, All Tested in My Bathroom

These butt-cleaning machines also offer luxe features like custom seat warming and adjustable water flows.

Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it

A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it...

The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that

For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are...

The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them

The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with...

Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.

While Neuralink drills into skulls, China’s BrainCo is betting brain tech will be something you wear

The most visible race in brain-computer interfaces involves surgery. But one of China’s most valuable neurotech firms is deliberately not competing in it, CNBC reports. BrainCo, based in Hangzhou,...

28 Best STEM Toys for Kids (2026): Learning Made Fun

We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.

OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader, Wired reported on...

This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave

Last weekend’s brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I...

Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta

Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.

Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor

Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.

Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience

Artificial intelligence seems to be creating increasingly interconnected enterprise ecosystems, expanding the complexity of how organizations govern technology across their operations. As AI becomes...

EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram

The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European...

Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says

The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.

Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building

Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, making it easier than ever to transform ideas into working products. According to Stanford’s recent report, AI performance...

Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters

Dozens of titles too taxing for Steam Deck are still unrated for the new hardware.

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits

The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

Thousands of ‘Pokémon Go’ Players Descend on Times Square to Defeat Mewtwo

A surprise 10th-anniversary event saw Niantic fulfilling a promise teased in the original 2016 launch trailer for its popular mobile game.

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Source bias, retrieval collapse, model collapse: three documented mechanisms that explain AI search's strangest behavior, and where to place your bet. The post The Web Is Eating Itself And Your...

Come to Our WIRED@NIGHT02 Film Screening!

See the documentary The Oldest Person in the World before it’s in theaters.

Zuckerberg confirms Meta is eyeing an AI cloud business to rent out its compute

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly confirmed that Meta is exploring an AI cloud business. Selling access to computing power “makes sense”, he said, according to Bloomberg. The confirmation puts the CEO’s...

FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem

The video call highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.

NHTSA demands autonomous vehicle companies fix first responder interference by end of July

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering...

NATO is building an AI ‘Kill Web’ to stop a Russian attack before it starts

NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents...

Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it

Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will...

HubSpot tried to feed its AI with customer data. The revolt took four days

HubSpot has scrapped a plan to use its customers’ data for a new AI feature, just four days after announcing it. The CRM firm changed its terms on 1 July to pool customer data, including contact and...

Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.

People Used to Control Machines. They Don’t Anymore

In a world regulated by devices, humanity has become disconnected from the physical world—from stick-shift cars to postcards.

Best Indoor Garden Systems: I've Been Testing All Year (2026)

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps

Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft’s in-house MAI models where cost or...

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed. 

How crypto payment processors can help businesses accept cryptocurrency

Businesses looking to modernize their payment systems may want to learn what a crypto payment processor is, how it works, and why it matters. Cryptocurrency and the crypto industry at large often...

An AI agent just ran a full ransomware attack with no human at the keyboard

Security firm Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent, first reported by Business Insider. A large language model planned, executed, and adapted the...

UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.

F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations

Sometimes races finish behind a safety car, but it's not always satisfying.

You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.

Review: TCL RM9L RGB-Mini LED (2026)

This massive 85-inch model is highly customizable but jaw-droppingly expensive.

Minions & Monsters wins July 4 box office with a franchise-low $64M debut

[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the...

Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future

Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once, she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue...

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before...

China is rewriting e-commerce law to tighten platform rules at home and shield its companies abroad

China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law’s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in...

Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech...

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin

Germany’s cooperative banks and savings banks, the local institutions that handle mortgages, current accounts, and small business loans for tens of millions of customers, are rolling out their own...

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the...

The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more

The gadget has three buttons, and it changes context based on what app you are looking at. For instance, in meeting apps and sites, it could be toggle mic, toggle video, and bring window to the front.

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.

Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Cloudflare now lets all sites manage AI crawlers as Search, Agent, or Training, with Sept. 15 defaults that can block Googlebot for sites blocking training. The post Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can...

Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.

Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked

Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site’s owner...

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, far exceeding the 406,000 Wall Street expected

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, far exceeding the Wall Street consensus of approximately 406,000. Production came in at 451,758 units. The delivery figure represents a...

Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing

A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the...

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet...

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing, and a payload hidden inside an image to steal credentials without...

Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges

Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars. The round also drew Vista Equity Partners, General...

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation

The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.

T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video

A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.

Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using...

Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick sideloading

New Fire Stick OS helps Amazon block third-party homepage launchers, ad blockers.

The 2 Best Slushie Machines of 2026: Now With Soft Serve

The original Ninja Slushi has been replaced! The new best slushie machines chill faster and make soft serve.

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have...

What Is an SEO Consultant & What Services Do They Offer?

Key Takeaways Need a little help improving your rankings? An SEO consultant could be the answer. Chances are you already know the basics of SEO, but getting your desired results can be...

Microsoft’s three-year .NET support window is too short for enterprises, developers say

A developer has reopened a long-standing complaint about Microsoft’s support policy for its .NET development platform, arguing in a new GitHub issue that the three-year window for long-term support...

Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

Germany wants Helsing to build the brain of its next air war

Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link...

What Is an SEO Consultant & What Services Do They Offer?

Key Takeaways Need a little help improving your rankings? An SEO consultant could be the answer. Chances are you already know the basics of SEO, but getting your desired results can be tough with...

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

Auto repair is one of the least digitised industries in America. AI is changing the economics of why.

North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s small business owner would recognise: phone-based scheduling, paper repair orders, manual parts...

Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth

Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model

China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.

Instagram wants to make algorithm customisation a core part of the app, not a buried setting

Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets users specify which topics they want to see more or less of. In an Instagram post this week, Mosseri...

California will tax downloaded software for the first time as part of a $351.7 billion budget deal

California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion state budget that will extend sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web. The tax is expected...

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs and then grew its engineering team by 45 percent, and its CEO says the pattern will repeat everywhere

Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by...

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.

Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product

Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.

Google Gemini Can Now Control Your Computer. Hackers Are Already Targeting AI Agents via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google warns that websites can expose AI agents to hidden traps for agentic AI navigating the open web. The post Google Gemini Can Now Control Your Computer. Hackers Are Already Targeting AI Agents...

SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US

Move would test whether group can turn ambition into a mass-market phone business.

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

Russian citizens told "switch to Android" after Apple blocks key Russian apps

Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.

Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California

Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.

Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand

Coinspaid Dev (stylized as {coinspaid.dev}), the engineering team behind the infrastructure powering Coinspaid Solutions, has separated from Coinspaid as an independent engineering brand after more...

Google Desktop CTR Climbs While Mobile Dips, Report Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Desktop and mobile clickthrough rates are splitting, according to new benchmark data. Clicks are growing on desktop while declining on mobile. The post Google Desktop CTR Climbs While Mobile Dips,...

Forget Peloton. Race to This 25% Off Deal on Hydrow’s Rowing Machine (2026)

This Peloton-adjacent rowing machine gamifies your workout to a satisfying effect, and it’s up to 25 percent off right now for Prime Day.

Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats

Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH...

Gemini 3.5 Flash can now see and control your screen, and Google wants enterprises to trust it

Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI model. The capability, which lets AI agents see screens, click, type,...

New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

Qualcomm lands Meta as first named customer for its Dragonfly data centre chips

Qualcomm has signed Meta as the first named customer for its new Dragonfly C1000 data centre processor, the strongest signal yet that the mobile chipmaker is serious about competing in the AI...

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate that lives in your Slack channels

Anthropic is launching Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives inside Slack and acts as a persistent AI teammate. The feature lets users tag @Claude to get insights in...

India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents

The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.

Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach

This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager's tech partners was recently breached.

Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and...

Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches

It's unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers' data.

OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs

OpenAI is attempting to tackle the security issues of the open source software community.

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.

Google And Shopify Back Cloudflare’s AI Bot Gatekeeping Initiative via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google, Shopify, and browser makers are backing new PACT protocol "on Cloudflare's network" for gatekeeping AI agents. The post Google And Shopify Back Cloudflare’s AI Bot Gatekeeping Initiative...

Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet

Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."

Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking...

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

The cryptographic keys that secure your computer’s boot sequence will start to expire on June 24. Here’s what that means for you.

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of...

Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Windows. KB5094126, released on June 9, patched a record 208 security vulnerabilities, but the update...

Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least...

ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment after the company missed a June 15 ransom deadline. The dump includes facial...

Aura’s impressive e-ink photo frame doesn’t even look digital

All of Aura's frames connect to the Aura app, which is where you can upload photos from your phone, web, email, iCloud, or Google Photos.

The Best Art TVs

Even after your movies end, these art televisions look stunning on any wall.

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a rover prototype that covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving, making it roughly 10 times faster than any rover the agency currently operates on Mars. The...

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China, but how?

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): Netgear, Asus, Amazon, and More

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

Google Tightens Requirements For Domain Migrations via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google's updated documentation for domain migrations requires broader compliance demands for site owners. The post Google Tightens Requirements For Domain Migrations appeared first on Search Engine...

Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time

Notably, unlike other apps that might just try to pull you away from your phone, Mivo lets the user decide if they want to continue, encouraging users to become more aware of how and why they’re...

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.

Ford pivots its Kentucky battery plant from EVs to AI data centre storage in a $2 billion bet

Ford has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture large-scale battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centres, and industrial customers. The company has...

FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells

A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight...

China pitches free AI for the developing world as the G7 debates who gets access to American models

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi announced on Wednesday that Beijing is “accelerating the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization” and invited all countries to join. The comments came as...

Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.

The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance,...

PsiQuantum breaks ground in Australia on what it says will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer

PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will...

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.

Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local

Designers are finding sustainable building solves close to home—in ancient practices and cutting-edge innovations alike.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

A new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds

Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and carries 137 remote commands, giving an operator...

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the...

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and...

Google Cloud Announces The Open Knowledge Format via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google Open Knowledge Format turns organizational knowledge into a shared format for AI agents, tools, and teams. The post Google Cloud Announces The Open Knowledge Format appeared first on Search...

Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

Stripe Projects Opens Cloud Infrastructure Buying To AI Agents via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Your pricing page was built for humans. An agent buying infrastructure needs a structured catalog, a programmatic signup endpoint, and a delegated billing surface. The post Stripe Projects Opens...

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.

China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs

China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips as a strategic route around Washington’s tightening grip on...

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but those issues have resolved.

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and...

Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level

Cloud Architect Nodir Safarov, who leads migration and infrastructure automation for thousands of global clients at SOTI Inc., identifies the architectural failures behind the most common cloud...

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.

ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day

Oracle warned customers on Thursday of a critical vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software that hackers have already exploited to breach more than 100 organisations. The flaw, CVE-2026-35273, carries...

AI Search Runs On Two Memory Systems. The Platforms Don’t Use Them The Same Way via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

Parametric memory and retrieval are two different problems with two different fixes. Most teams are solving the wrong one without knowing it. The post AI Search Runs On Two Memory Systems. The...

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Using AI to Support and Defend Your Brand

Key Takeaways Brand management has a new problem. Everything you have built, your positioning, your messaging, your reputation, can now be summarized by an AI system before a customer ever visits...

Paramount is merging Pluto TV, BET+, and Paramount+ onto one tech stack to prepare for HBO Max

Paramount is unifying the tech stacks behind Paramount+, Pluto TV, and BET+ onto a single backend infrastructure by mid-2026. CEO David Ellison announced the consolidation earlier this year. It is...

The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on...

Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded...

How memory tools can make AI models worse

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate

In 2019, Alex Vindman testified during President Trump’s first impeachment trial–a decision that ended his military career. Now he wants to challenge the president from the halls of Congress.

Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television

The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro.

FCC filings suggest Valve’s Steam Machine could launch before June 29

Valve’s Steam Machine, the compact gaming PC announced in November 2025, could launch on or before June 29 based on a pattern in the company’s FCC regulatory filings. The theory, first spotted by...

Supermicro plans to raise $7 billion to fulfill $39 billion in AI server orders

Super Micro Computer plans to raise $7 billion through a package of equity offerings to purchase components for its AI servers. The company said Tuesday it has received approximately $39 billion in...

Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.

Apple plays catch-up at WWDC

Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to...

China just approved the world’s first commercial brain implant. The race with Neuralink is no longer theoretical.

Controlling a machine with your mind used to be science fiction. Now it is a regulated medical product, at least in China. Earlier this year, China’s National Medical Products Administration approved...

Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together

Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing cross-developer subscription bundles, group purchasing, enterprise volume licensing, and an AI-powered...

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.

Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools, And AEO/GEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google positions itself as the ground truth for SEO and AEO/GEO advice and questions third-party SEO tools, data and services. The post Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools,...

China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday....

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

Google’s Updated Guidance Urges FTC Complaints Against Shady SEOs via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google now encourages FTC complaints in its SEO hiring guidance, while cautioning about AI SEO services, SEO tools, and misleading claims. The post Google’s Updated Guidance Urges FTC...

The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing Top Models

I tried all the top models to find the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, pads, and more. Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.

Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It

Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.

Beyond Instagram: Introducing the next generation of social apps

These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.

Google Analytics Is Adding Google Business Profile Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has documented a native link between Google Business Profile and Google Analytics, bringing local metrics like calls and directions into GA reports. The post Google Analytics Is Adding Google...

The DOGE Boys Get VC Funding to Support Their Latest Enterprise

Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply “learnings” from DOGE to the private sector.

Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO...

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup...

Google Launches Search Profiles, Here’s How You Can Get One via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google launches Search profiles, giving eligible creators a customizable page for articles, social posts, and followers. U.S.-only at launch. The post Google Launches Search Profiles, Here’s...

The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok

A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.

Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation,...

Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage

The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.

Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of...

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app

This popular ad blocker app for iPhones, iPads, and Macs can now block ads from loading inside apps, including web browsers, thanks to a new feature in the latest Apple software.

Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.

Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure...

Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside

Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its...

Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool

The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.

Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps

Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is...

Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a...

Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and...

The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself

A rally that carried space-related stocks to extraordinary gains this year is showing serious cracks. The Procure Space ETF, which trades under the ticker UFO, has dropped almost 11% in just two...

EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI Systems A Structured View Of Your Business via @sejournal, @Dixon_Jones

What if a single file could tell AI systems exactly what your organization knows and where the evidence lives? That's the EntityMap proposal. The post EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI...

From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM's development

From CFD and FEA to digital twins, carmaking now involves a lot of virtualization.

IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse

IBM stock surged 10% on Monday after Barclays initiated coverage with an overweight rating and a $350 price target, roughly 11% above the opening price. The jump extends a run that has seen IBM gain...

Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its...

Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo

Dell, Microsoft, and others are unveiling new laptops to compete directly with the Neo, but not all are learning the right lessons from Apple.

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community...

LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs

LG Electronics shares surged as much as 23.95% after the company announced a range of automotive solutions built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system. The stock last traded at 279,500 won....

How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry

From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.

Best Unlimited Phone Plan: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Compared

I sifted through the fine print and figured out how to score the best deal right now on all the major carriers.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in...

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out...

Tello Mobile Plan Review (2026): Low Cost, Reliable Service

With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone plan, and for me, it turns out prepaid can be just as good.

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?

I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.

HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system...

CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire

CoStar Group has agreed to acquire Zonda, the leading provider of new-home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 million in cash. The...

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Autodesk has spent four decades selling the software that engineers and architects use to design buildings, factories and machines. With its latest acquisition, it is buying its way into what happens...

Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G

Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base...

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and...

A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses

Pay Tel secured the publicly exposed data after security researchers discovered the leak containing callers' sensitive ID documents and inmate communications.

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.

How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your Customers’ ChatGPT Answers via @sejournal, @trendos_com

Learn the manual process to track who is advertising in ChatGPT answers. Understand your competitors' strategies in real-time. The post How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your...

Anthropic’s Milan office lands with Generali, Pirelli and Enel as named Italian customers

The formal opening of Anthropic’s sixth European office lands the same week as Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, with the company naming a roster of Italian enterprise deployments. nthropic formally opened...

The internet is being rebuilt for machines

As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.

Rivian will deliver the first R2 SUVs on June 9

The company has finally set a date for the first customer deliveries of what CEO RJ Scaringe has said is "maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date."

Daylight expands MDR into Claude Enterprise to address emerging AI security risks

As enterprises race to embed generative AI into daily operations, security teams are confronting a new category of threats that traditional monitoring systems were never designed to handle. From...

8 Best Computer Speakers (2026) After Testing 25+ Pairs

These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget.

CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers

Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that software.

Talkdesk wants its AI agents to call your customers before they call you

Talkdesk has launched proactive AI agents designed specifically for retail and financial services, moving the company from a platform that handles inbound customer queries to one that initiates...

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company's boosters and its...

UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

The third-party website exposed applicants' sensitive documents as part of the U.K. visa application process. Instead of fixing the issue, the company sent attorneys.

Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites Machines Can Identify, Read, Cite & Use via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Designing for the most constrained consumer, a machine, produces a better foundation for every visitor. Here's the full build sequence. The post Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites...

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The...

Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms

The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission...

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By...

Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video...

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10

If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers.

These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr

As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.

The Gulf was supposed to power the AI boom. Then the war started.

Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed....

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature...

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.

HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs...

All You Need To Know About Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness Score via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Most of the checks that tanked your agent-readiness score don't apply to your website type. Here's what the number actually means. The post All You Need To Know About Cloudflare’s Agent...

SEO teams are tracking keywords. But are they tracking what ChatGPT says about their brand?

When someone searches Google, you can see exactly where you rank. When someone asks ChatGPT for a software recommendation, you have no idea whether your brand comes up at all. That gap is widening,...

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. The patches can’t keep up.

Anthropic disclosed on Friday that Project Glasswing, its restricted cybersecurity initiative, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerability candidates across some of the...

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running...

The Best Smart Sprinklers and Irrigation Systems: In-Ground Sprinklers, Hose Timers (2026)

We’ve tested almost a dozen options that handle everything from scheduling and weather changes to water conservation, so you don’t have to.

Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods. The software patch didn’t work. Five cities are now shut down.

Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five US cities on 21 May after a software patch it pushed to its entire 3,791-vehicle fleet less than two weeks earlier failed to prevent another autonomous...

Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit

The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether...

The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching...

Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

Valve Steam Controller Review (2026): Wait for the Steam Machine

Without the context of Valve’s Steam Machine (which is still MIA), this controller can’t fully dazzle players yet.

Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses

President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers.

HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human...

SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion...

IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app

"The move to AcuRite NOW has not been as smooth as some customers expected ..."

11 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic

Here are the best meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s delivery box, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.

GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing...

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in...

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

Access to TV OS's source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the...

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant...

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build...

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building...

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses at IO 2026

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach

  New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including...

Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.

SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode

SpaceX has raised the price of every consumer Starlink plan in the United States, adding $5 to $10 per month across its residential and mobile tiers while doubling the cost of its budget Standby Mode...

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

"I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries...

If You’re a Serious Bowler, You Need to Know About Bowling Lane Oil

Bowling centers apply oil to their lanes using a machine that works like a giant inkjet printer. The pattern in which it’s applied can change everything about how the ball travels.

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering...

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read

  ArXiv, the open-access repository that has served as the primary distribution channel for preprint research in computer science, mathematics, and physics for more than three decades, will ban...

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon...

Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle school addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta to face trial alone

Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted learning and...

$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month

Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.

Best Indoor Garden Systems: I've Been Testing All Year (2026)

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an...

Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.

Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.

  Revolut’s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them £1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo...

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.

Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac

Osaurus combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps users’ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.

Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app

Newer AcuRite Now app lacks some features but has a subscription option.

Why Your AI Ad Strategy Is Only As Good As Your Data via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

AI magnifies what you give it. Weak inputs produce accelerated inefficiency. Here's what feeding the machine better signals actually looks like in 2026. The post Why Your AI Ad Strategy Is Only As...

What is Connected TV Advertising?

Key Takeaways According to Pew Research, 83 percent of U.S. adults watch streaming services, while only 36 percent subscribe to cable or satellite TV at home. In Q4 2025, 74.2 percent of all TV...

Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.

The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

OpenAI says hackers stole some data after latest code security issue

OpenAI said the damage was limited to the employees’ devices and did not affect user data nor its production systems, and none of its intellectual property was stolen.

YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite popular on the big screen.

Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.

On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by...

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund....

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice