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In defense of Apple’s $230 iPhone sock

Apple halves commissions for mini app makers

Police take down three cybercrime operations in latest round of ‘whack-a-mole’

The 10 companies that just launched from Betaworks’ latest startup camp

Tesla might finally bring CarPlay to its EVs

Google’s NotebookLM adds ‘Deep Research’ tool, support for more file types

Facebook Marketplace gets new collaborative and social features, Meta AI integrations

CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government

TikTok launches its own version of Instagram’s broadcast channels

Firefighters received chemical burns at Elon Musk’s Boring Company construction site

Google takes on Pinterest with a dedicated ‘inspirational’ images tab in its mobile app

Tesla Powerwall 2 recall expands to US after reports of fires

Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

LinkedIn adds AI-powered search to help users find people

Sam Altman-backed Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

EU launches antitrust probe into how Google’s anti-spam policy affects publishers’ search rankings

Harbinger raises $160M, will build trucks for FedEx

Spotify introduces a Premium Platinum plan with lossless access in five markets

Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3bn five months after its previous round

Spotify adds a new, less repetitive shuffle, plus audiobook recaps

Microsoft’s plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Cash App debuts a new AI assistant that answers questions about your finances

Willow’s voice keyboard lets you type across all your iOS apps — and actually edit what you said

Kering-backed fund Mirova pours $30.5M into India’s Varaha for regenerative farming

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive

‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake

Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch lays off dozens, citing move to ‘accelerate’ AI investment

ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio

Elon Musk’s X botched its security key switchover, locking users out

Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages

iOS 26.2 beta adds new Liquid Glass customization, alarms in the Reminders app, and more

YouTube TV’s Disney blackout is ruining my life (I can’t watch ‘Jeopardy!’)

Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats

Productivity app Hero announces an SDK that will complete your AI prompts for you

Radio streamer TuneIn acquired for $175M

Data centers now attract more investment than than finding new oil supplies

Data centers now attract more investment than finding new oil supplies

Lawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers’ data with ICE

Apple launches Digital ID, a way to carry your passport on your phone for use at TSA checkpoints

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia

Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan

Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch again due to solar storms

Airbnb’s testing a ‘kitchen stocking’ service that lets guests place Instacart orders before their stay

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product

Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers

Australian spy chief warns Chinese hackers are ‘probing’ critical networks for espionage and sabotage