Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones
Line go up (bad version).
Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access'
There's an increasingly high cost to convenience.
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Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
Critics say workers are still owed far more.
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
This Shoe Company’s Instagram Ad With a Frat Is Pissing People Off
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyA popular national footwear brand recently p...
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
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Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents
Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta ...
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: Comparing their displays and batteries
Not much else differentiates them, which isn't a bad thing.
It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropi...
US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
A newer program has been operational since 2011, and the next generation could launch within 12 months.