Every long relationship needs a renewal talk eventually. Apple and Broadcom just had theirs, and instead of "it's complicated," the answer was "let's do this through 2031." The Chip Deal Nobody Was Sweating Got Bigger Broadcom and Apple di…

Somewhere in a spare bedroom, a router has been secretly moonlighting as a getaway car for cybercriminals since who-knows-when. This week, Google and the FBI finally repossessed the fleet. Two Million Devices, One Very Awkward Unmasking Th…

Meta has spent years asking to see your camera roll for "memories" purposes. Now it wants to remix that camera roll into whatever surreal, product-shot, or freshly-restyled version of reality you can describe in a sentence. Say hello to Mus…

Most cities get a trial run before the robots take the wheel completely — a chaperone in the front seat, a few months of "just in case." Miami got none of that. Tesla rolled straight to the deep end, and the deep end this week came with act…

Ransomware gangs used to need a whole org chart: a hacker for initial access, another for lateral movement, a "big game hunter" to find the juicy database, and someone to write the ransom note in passable English. JadePuffer skipped all of …

Quantum computers are famously fragile, temperamental things — brilliant at math, terrible at patience. Turns out one of their biggest problems wasn't the exotic physics everyone loves to talk about. It was something far more mundane:…

Forget gold rushes — the real 2026 fortune is being made in the unglamorous business of memory chips, and SK Hynix just decided Wall Street should get a piece of the action. The South Korean chipmaker is heading to Nasdaq with a listi…

Remember when making a video game required, like, actual programming? Meta apparently doesn't, and it just shipped an app that lets you describe a game idea in plain English and watch an AI slap it together while you wait. No semicolons wer…

Just when Silicon Valley thought it had recovered from its last "DeepSeek moment," here comes the sequel nobody asked for. A Beijing startup has built an AI model that Western executives are quietly benchmarking against their own flagship p…

Somewhere in the criminal underworld, a ransomware crew's HR department just got very, very small. Turns out you don't need a team of hackers to pull off a full-blown extortion attack anymore — you just need one very motivated AI agen…