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Chinese man extradited for role in $36 million cryptocurrency scam
A Chinese national was arraigned in California after being extradited from the Netherlands for his alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency investment scam that stole nearly $37 mi…
How to declutter your phone's address book and remove unnecessary contacts
Clean up your contacts list to prioritize the people you actually want to talk to.
Anthropic files to go public
The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion.
Anthropic’s IPO filing lays out a plan to ‘revolutionize every area of human endeavor’ with AI
Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO. In a filing with t…
Amazon pledges 30,000 entry-level UK jobs to young people by 2030
Amazon has pledged 30,000 entry-level jobs in the UK by 2030 for young people from the areas with the fewest opportunities. The roles start at £15.10 an hour, more than £31,000 a …
Apple updates the iPad mini with an A20 processor and OLED display
The new tablet stats at $699.
Apple will reportedly run diagnostics on returned iPhones without opening the packaging
Apple soon won't need to physically access iPhones like the new Duo before updating them or checking returns.
How do Starlink speeds compare to 5G?
Starlink and 5G providers advertise high speeds, but there is more to consider when deciding between the two. Think about location, and coverage as well.
Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?
What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dar…
Apple updates the iPad Mini with a larger OLED display
Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger, 8.5-inch OLED display. The company revealed the new device just days before its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It starts at $699…
American Express cuts 5% of staff and won’t let AI agents ‘run rogue’
American Express is cutting about 5% of its global workforce and taking a $336M restructuring charge. Chief executive Stephen Squeri told analysts about the cuts on Friday, CNBC’s…
Google Beam is being deployed at 20 USO locations
This is the company's impressive 3D video conferencing tech.
Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.
Verizon raises 2026 forecast and signs $2bn AI deal with AWS
Verizon raised its forecasts for 2026 on Monday after a strong quarter for new phone customers. It also announced a deal worth more than $2bn with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to sup…
Goldman Sachs puts $500M into small-business AI with four AI labs
Goldman Sachs is putting $500M into the next phase of its 10,000 Small Businesses programme, including a new AI institute built with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. At the lau…
The built-in Android phone app most users never bother to use (but should)
Your phone's most honest app doesn't even have a home screen icon.
Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs
Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Busin…
What happens when your PC's CMOS battery dies?
The CMOS battery isn't something you'll need to change often. But when it goes, it's time for a quick swap.
Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers
San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with sim…
Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes
Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain i…
Mistral’s Mensch warns Europe of ‘leftovers’ if it quits frontier AI
Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also …
Meta launches $35bn share sale to fund its AI spending
Meta launched two share offerings worth about $35bn on Monday, as it looks for new ways to pay for its growing spending on AI. The larger offering is $22.5bn of Class A common sto…
EU lawmakers split over bringing back AI liability rules
The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Soc…
PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix
PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix…