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One text can break your phone: Android's 'SMS of Death' explained
A flaw in Android 12 and later lets a specially crafted SMS drop calls and even make a phone unusable. The fix is in October's security patch.

GTA VI lands November 19: prices, editions and what to know
Rockstar has locked the date: Thursday, November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Standard costs $79.99 and Ultimate $99.99.

Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro brings OLED and Dynamic Island
The new PROLED XDR display responds to touch, the notch is gone and Dynamic Island takes its place. Prices start at $2,899.

The $1,999 iPhone Duo Has a Black-Bar Problem, and Fixing It Is Harder Than It Looks
Apple's first foldable is a hardware flex. But unfold it and many of your apps shrink into a phone-shaped window floating in black. Here's why the app world wasn't ready, and why developers can't just hit "stretch".

John Ternus: Apple doesn't want to "ship AI for AI's sake"
Apple's new CEO says the company isn't behind on AI, and that the goal is for people not to wonder whether AI or ordinary software did the job, only whether they love the product.

Report: OpenAI lowers funding target to $20 billion
Per the Financial Times, OpenAI cut its new round's target from $30 billion to $20 billion, a sign investors are growing wary of massive AI spending.

Apple announces the M6 MacBook Pro, starting at $1,999
Apple says graphics are up to 30% faster and AI tasks up to 25% faster than M5. Battery life reaches up to 24 hours, while the familiar ports remain.

New iPad mini goes OLED and waterproof. Buyers in Iraq should check eSIM first
The biggest iPad mini update yet starts at $699, but the cellular model only takes an eSIM.

Google completes its June spam update: what should site owners check?
The rollout began on June 24 and finished on June 26. Changes in traffic need investigation rather than an assumption that every decline is a penalty.

IBM unveils 0.7nm nanostack chip technology as a research milestone
The approach builds transistors upward in three dimensions. The node name is not a literal measurement of every feature on the chip.

Samsung announces Galaxy A27 5G, emphasizing its display and long support
The new Galaxy A model raises a familiar buying question: how should specifications, years of support and the actual local price be weighed together?

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, a chip built for LLM inference
The accelerator targets the work of producing model responses, with initial deployment planned for the end of 2026.

Meta Glasses start at $299 as the companies target a wider audience
The June 23 launch introduces a lower-priced smart-glasses line, but fit, service availability and the final configuration still matter.

Instagram expands to Samsung TVs while exploring longer video
The June 22 expansion adds Samsung devices and raises practical questions for creators about viewing from across the room.

Google examines how to measure a coding assistant's usefulness before it writes code
Research connected to Jules focuses on finding the right problem and timing an intervention, rather than treating diagnosis and successful repairs as the same result.

NVIDIA explains how 45°C liquid can cool AI servers
A June 21 report describes warm-liquid cooling for Rubin. Coolant temperature should not be confused with room temperature or the chip's operating limit.

John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
The Nobel-winning AlphaFold researcher is moving to Anthropic after nearly nine years at Google DeepMind.

India's temporary Telegram ban sparks demand for VPNs and rival apps
Restrictions ahead of the NEET medical entrance examination coincided with higher VPN downloads and interest in competing messaging apps.

Tim Cook says Apple price rises are unavoidable as memory costs climb
Apple's chief executive warned about rising memory and storage costs without announcing a new price list or identifying all affected products.

Android 17 reaches Pixel with Bubble Bar and new Gemini features
Google began its stable Pixel rollout alongside updates covering multitasking, the Pixel ecosystem and Wear OS 7.

Snap unveils Specs AR glasses at $2,195
The glasses feature two Snapdragon processors, with autumn availability planned for the US, UK and France.

SpaceX agrees to buy Cursor developer in $60 billion stock deal
The agreement targets a larger role in AI coding tools, with completion expected in the third quarter according to the announcement.

Sensor Tower report puts ChatGPT audience share below 50% as rivals grow
End-of-May estimates put ChatGPT at 46.4%, ahead of Gemini and Claude; the shares measure audience rather than revenue.

Facebook adds AI Mode answers based on public posts
Meta's search and creative updates combine summaries of public discussions with new photo and video tools.

State attorneys general open investigation into OpenAI
New York's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI over ads, health data and protections for minors.

US government orders Anthropic to shut off Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Following a US government order, Anthropic switched off its two most powerful models for all users worldwide.

Google sues Chinese scam network that used AI
Google says the "Outsider" network tricked hundreds of thousands of people with fake SMS messages.

SpaceX prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever
SpaceX raised $75 billion from its share sale and will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX.

Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2026
Siri powered by Gemini, iOS 27 for iPhone 11 and newer, new AI tools for photos and writing, and Tim Cook's last WWDC.

Claude Fable 5 arrives: the first Mythos-class model for everyone
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a public version of Mythos that falls back to Opus 4.8 in high-risk areas.