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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.
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".
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.
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.
John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
The Nobel-winning AlphaFold researcher is moving to Anthropic after nearly nine years at Google DeepMind.
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.
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.
iOS 27 code hints a foldable iPhone is close
Foldable-related code was found in the iOS 27 beta, and Bloomberg says the device may be on track for a fall release.
ChatGPT adds Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data
OpenAI's new setting disables some features so prompt injection attacks can't steal sensitive data.
Android will detect fake AI deepfake calls
Google is rolling out Fake Call Detection to warn you when a scammer impersonates a trusted contact with an AI voice.
Microsoft criticized for threatening a security researcher
A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse published unpatched Defender and BitLocker bugs; Microsoft threatened a criminal investigation and the researcher's accounts were banned.
Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with Dynamic Workflows
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 at the same price, plus a research-preview tool that runs hundreds of parallel subagents.
DuckDuckGo installs jump 30% after Google's AI search overhaul
After Google pushed AI deeper into Search, more US users switched to DuckDuckGo, especially on iPhone.
Gemini 3.5 Flash arrives: 4x faster and built for agents
Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, now the default model in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
Threads brings messaging to the web
Threads now supports one-on-one and group chats on the web, plus Live Chats for up to 150 active participants.
GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant, with search that can reference past chats, files and Gmail.
Harvard study: AI beat two doctors at emergency room diagnoses
OpenAI's o1 gave the exact or near diagnosis in 67% of ER cases at triage, versus 55% and 50% for two physicians, in a study published in Science.
Meta buys humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence
Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), whose team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs to work on humanoid robots.
Spotify adds "Verified" badges to separate human artists from AI
A green checkmark for real artists, and profiles for AI-generated music aren't eligible.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 gets text right, in many languages
The new image model can search the web, make several images from one prompt and render text accurately in many scripts.
Anthropic launches Claude Design for creating quick visuals
Type a prompt to build prototypes, slides and one-pagers, then export to PDF, PPTX or Canva.
Adobe patches Acrobat zero-day that hackers exploited for months
Opening a malicious PDF could give attackers full control of a computer. Update Acrobat and Reader now.
Meta debuts Muse Spark, the start of a ground-up AI overhaul
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs is live on the web and in the Meta AI app, with a Contemplating mode for hard questions.
Google unveils TurboQuant, shrinking AI working memory by at least 6x
A new compression algorithm cuts the memory AI models use while running. The internet is already calling it "Pied Piper."
Google's Personal Intelligence becomes free for all U.S. users
With your permission, Gemini and AI Mode can read Gmail and Google Photos to give more personal answers.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Thinking and Pro versions
OpenAI's new model for professional work offers up to 1 million tokens of context and fewer errors than GPT-5.2.
Samsung unveils Galaxy S26 Ultra with Privacy Display
At Galaxy Unpacked in San Francisco, Samsung showed three S26 phones, Galaxy Buds4 and new AI features.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 with agent teams that work together
Opus 4.6 has a 1 million token context window and a new "agent teams" feature. Claude now also works inside PowerPoint.