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Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.

The console was subject to added fees under the Trump administration’s original (and illegal) tariff regime.

Apple just confirmed the timing of its annual iPhone event on Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. PT in Cupertino. The tech giant is rumored to unveil a foldable iPhone that could rival its Android competitors, namely the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold.

Apple announced a surprising update to the Mac mini this week. That cute little Mac that doesn’t come with a keyboard or monitor now has an M6 chip inside. It’s a brand-new Apple Silicon chip debuting in the Mac mini and, as you might expect, it’s faster and more efficient than the last generation. The thing is,…

Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” Google means that as a promise — that the updated Gemini app can handle a variety of taskss given every…

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident.

Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open social web — the umbrella term for social platforms that let users, not one company, control their own data and audience — is making another big bet on that ecosystem. The company on Wednesday announced it’s acquiring the Portland-based feed-building startup…

A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations, according to a federal regulatory filing on Wednesday, the latest healthtech giant to face a cyberattack in recent weeks.

Sometimes, AI-driven restructuring goes about as well as an AI-assisted legal brief. Reutersreports that Meta spent much of this year testing a plan in which AI would take over many of the workforce’s daily tasks. Dubbed Project OT, the plan appears to connect two stories from earlier this year: Meta’s 10 percent workforce reduction and…

The FBI has seized a series of domains that were used by a large-scale botnet to coordinate and launch China-backed cyberattacks against American targets.