Intel cancelled planned fab projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its testing and assembly operations in Vietnam and Malaysia
Intel reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, as the company's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced significant cuts in chip factory construction.
Hands-on with macOS 26: the interface is a mess, like a poorly imported iOS design, but the power of Spotlight and Shortcuts will delight many longtime users
For many years, Apple's annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad.
Intel reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $12.9B, vs. $11.9B est., a $2.9B loss due to restructuring and impairment charges, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates
US chipmaker posts positive revenue and forecast as it cuts jobs — Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan pushed ahead …
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language
and they're nothing but trouble Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : iOS 26 public beta now available with new design and more Sean Captain / Fast Company : Is it safe to install iOS 26 on older iPhones like the...
Meta will no longer accept political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation
Meta on Friday said starting in October it will no longer accept political, election or social issue ads in the European Union …
Intel says it may exit cutting-edge manufacturing if it can't secure customers for its 14A process, a major shift for the long-time steward of Moore's Law
Intel (INTC.O) warned investors on Thursday that it may have to get out of the chip manufacturing business if it does not land external customers to make chips in its factories.
Hands-on with iOS 26: Liquid Glass is impressive but can also be distracting, Camera redesign is solid, Call Filtering feature in the Phone app is great, more
follow these steps Taras Buria / Neowin : Apple releases iOS 26 public beta with tweaked ‘Liquid Glass’ Zachary McAuliffe / CNET : I Tried iOS 26 for a Month. These 3 Features Stand Out Most Philip Mi...
A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups
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Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts, exposing selfies and drivers' licenses
Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google's mobile app development platform, Firebase …
Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada
Microsoft has a new Copilot Appearance virtual character that responds with real-time expressions.
Hands-on with iPadOS 26: new windowing system is great and other enhancements like smarter Shortcuts and Files app make the iPad better for professional use
the biggest upgrade in years Scott Stein / CNET : I've Tried Making My iPad an Almost Mac With iPadOS 26 Beta Nathan Ingraham / Engadget : iPadOS 26 preview: A long-awaited multi-tasking update pays o...
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels”
What Caused The Global Outage And Is It Back Up Yet? Abdullah Asim / PhoneArena : Starlink goes down mere hours after T-Mobile's service goes live Reuters : Musk's Starlink says it is experiencing maj...
Intel plans to cut its workforce from 96,400 that it reported at the end of June to 75,000, or about 15%, through attrition and “other means” by the end of 2025
The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers
Three senior North Korean officials involved in IT schemes have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs
AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own.
Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K+
Elon Musk says humanoid robots will be the future of Tesla. The company has a long way to go. — Tesla is well behind …
Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4
GPT-5 is almost here, and we're hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who's used the unreleased version was extremely positive.
Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user
One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection.
Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool
Brave and AdGuard are both following Signal's lead in blocking Microsoft's AI tool. … Microsoft's controversial Recall feature …
Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings
Apple is expanding its age-rating system for apps. The company on Thursday said it has updated its age-rating system to add 13+ …
Public companies are loading up on crypto tokens, including $TRUMP, HYPE, and litecoin, as they expand beyond bitcoin to boost their own share prices
Listed firms load up on ether, litecoin and $TRUMP as they bid to emulate Michael Saylor's Strategy — Public companies are loading …
In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the “enigma” of layoffs while “Microsoft is thriving”, saying the transition into the AI era “might feel messy at times”
Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO … Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun : Dear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, please prove that an AI didn't write your insulting, vacuous blog about why you're la...
Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical decisions, raised $150M led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, bringing its total funding to $370M
Advancing the Frontier of Clinical Intelligence — Table of contents Naomi Diaz / Becker's Hospital Review : 4 health systems join $150M funding round for AI company Fred Pennic / HIT Consultant : Ai...
Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four “super agents”, for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol
So Why Are You Still Treating It Like One? Aiko Gao Ishida / Tech in Asia : Walmart deploys AI agents to assist shoppers, boost ecommerce Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Google, Walmart Separately Set O...
Lyft partners with Austria-based Benteler to deploy autonomous shuttles in the US in late 2026, to be initially deployed in partnership with airports and cities
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Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation as of Q2 2025, backed 1:1 by a troy ounce of physical gold; the stablecoin was launched in Jan. 2020
Daniel Kuhn / The Block :
Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query
and Appease Critics Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : Google Search is learning how you think and results won't look the same anymore Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Google Expands AI Search So...
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations
www.ft.com/content/99b6... #ai #entryjobs Christopher Mims / @mims : Great piece, data do not support “AI is taking all the jobs” — “AI may be part of the picture but other factors, including econom...
Sources: repair demand in China for Nvidia's banned AI chips, including H100 and A100, surges as ~12 firms now repair chips that made their way into the country
companies resurrecting banned AI accelerators at a rate of up to ‘500 per month’ Chris Cooke / CMU : If China blocks TikTok deal app will “go dark” says US Commerce Secretary, but hints deal “coming s...
A UK court sentences a 21-year-old student who created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank, and charity websites, linked to £100M of fraud
Shane Hickey / The Guardian : Forums: Slashdot Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : UK Student Jailed For Selling Phishing Kits Linked To $135M of Fraud
Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
X is testing using visual callouts in the style of Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sources: Elad Gil is raising a fund of ~$1.5B that could grow to $2B based on investor interest, making it one of the largest fundraising hauls for a solo GP
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information : X: @nmasc_ X: Natasha Mascarenhas / @nmasc_ : Scoop: Elad Gil is raising a $1.5 billion fund, which if closed would be one of the largest hauls for a solo GP. ...
Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M
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