Technology
Nothing’s eye-catching Ear 3A earbuds are matching their best price to date
If you want a decent pair of noise-canceling earbuds without spending a fortune, Nothing’s Ear 3A are worth considering. The wireless earbuds offer a lot of features for the price…
Pennsylvania will require labels on misleading AI ads, with $3,000 fines
Advertisers in Pennsylvania will have to label ads that use AI to mislead consumers about what they are selling. Governor Josh Shapiro approved the Artificial Intelligence Decepti…
Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push
The cabinet announced that it wants to get rid of 25,000 full-time jobs by 2035.
Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo hit by early reports of cracking screens
A growing number of iPhone Duo owners say the inner screen cracked along the crease soon after purchase, Bloomberg reported. It appears to affect a minority of units. iFixit suspe…
Microsoft reportedly offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as an attempt to trim costs
That's over a quarter of the company's global workforce.
Five weird details from Anthropic’s IPO filing
Anthropic has finally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, a document designed to give investors a look under the hood of its business, from how much its executives are making a…
Fitbit Edge review: Google strikes the right balance
Want a beautiful tracker with a screen but don't want AI on your wrist? The Fitbit Edge is perfect for you.
Everything old is new again with the Fitbit Edge
Last week, I sank into my living room couch and watched a bedraggled, nihilistic Matthew McConaughey take a drag of a cigarette in season 1 of True Detective. "You know, someone o…
Ciena CEO who survived the telecom bust tells WSJ the AI boom is different
Gary Smith has been Ciena CEO since May 2001, and led the company through the telecom crash that followed the fibre boom. He says today’s AI build-out is a different kind of cycle…
Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing
Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s m…
Instagram tests 90-minute horizontal videos called Features
Instagram has started testing a new format for long, horizontal videos called Features. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri and product chief Tessa Lyons announced the test on Monday. …
Anthropic tells IPO investors it could be targeted over its AI safety views
Anthropic has warned would-be investors that its views on AI safety could make it a political target. The warning is in the risk factors of its S-1 registration statement. The com…
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing …
Here's how much it would cost to build a PC similar to the Xbox Series X
An Xbox Series X isn't cutting-edge tech anymore, but it's still costly to build a similar PC due to high part prices.
The Sony WH-1000XM4C bring back a beloved headphone design
When Sony announced the WH-1000XM4C headphones, I was perplexed. A product revamp usually includes at least one or two significant improvements. Or if it's a nostalgia play, it's …
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its staff
Amy Coleman, Microsoft’s chief people officer, announced the Voluntary Exit Offer in a memo to employees on Monday. It is open to eligible staff in participating teams in Canada, …
Critical 'HTTP2Shell' Brotli vulnerability triggers emergency patches
A critical flaw dubbed 'HTTP2Shell' in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data. [...]
Freedom Holding is developing a $2bn sovereign AI hub in Kazakhstan
Freedom Holding Corp. is developing the $2bn hub under an agreement signed in November 2025 with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, the Nasd…
Bedrock Robotics raises $600M as its self-driving excavators win paid work
Bedrock Robotics has closed a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital. The round values the San Francisco startup at $4.1bn after the money, it said in a statement…
How do apps on the HomeView work, and what does CarPlay have to do with it?
The HomeView won't have its own App Store, but there's another method for using compatible third-party apps on the display.
Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos
Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on t…
Apple’s new iPad mini gets OLED, an A20 Pro chip and water resistance
Apple unveiled the eighth-generation iPad mini on Monday, two days before its Pro and Tell event in Los Angeles. The tablet keeps the footprint of the 2024 model but stretches the…
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman write…