“Credit card balances continue to rise. A lot of people don’t realize how much they’re really paying when they buy something with a credit card. We created this calculator to help consumers see all the interest and fees they’re paying over time when they use credit cards.” — Casey Yontz, bankruptcy attorney and founder of
More than half of Foxconn’s revenue now comes from the servers and networking gear behind the AI buildout, a bigger share than the iPhones and other consumer devices that made it famous. Hon Hai Precision Industry, as the company is formally known, said on Thursday that cloud and networking products made up 54% of third-quarter
Elon Musk said Wednesday night it would be “an honor” to hire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, answering a one-line suggestion on X. The markets site ZeroHedge posted “Elon please hire Jensen” at 6:22 p.m. ET. Musk replied two hours later: “That would be an honor.” It is a two-post exchange, not an announcement, and neither
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Small Web BusinessZoom has notified users of two major flaws impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows, both of which allow remote privilege escalation. Zoom has issued an update to fix two serious flaws in its Windows version, flaws that were described on the company’s website. The first is CVE-2026-108186, carrying a 9.6 out of 10 severity rating. The
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Small Web BusinessUnited Airlines has said it will not allow AI agents to book flights on behalf of customers, taking steps to restrict their access. As AI agents gain in popularity, people are using them for all kinds of tasks, such as managing finances, shopping, making appointments, and booking travel plans. In a post on the company’s
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Small Web BusinessSpaceXSI took Grok Bot out of beta on Wednesday, Nov. 11, recasting its AI agents from personal assistants into shared teammates that work inside a team’s Slack channels, Microsoft Teams chats and video calls. Shared Team Bots and Slack support arrived in September. Version 1.0 adds Microsoft Teams and meetings, and it casts Bots that
Elon Musk has made a strikingly honest admission, saying that his own Grok 4.8 AI model is “not as good” as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5. Not as good. Opus 5.5 is a masterpiece. But Grok 5 should exceed Opus 5.5 and maybe that happens in 2 or 3 months, with continued acceleration thereafter. — Elon
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Small Web BusinessToyota surprised the industry with an announcement that it is bringing an ultra-compact kei truck to the US, in the form of the Scion KEI-01. For those who remember, the Scion was a Toyota brand aimed primarily at millennials. While the brand was discontinued in 2016, Toyota is bringing it back as a “freedom lab”
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Small Web BusinessFive months after Meta pledged free Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America, demand has outrun the program: the Blinded Veterans Association now puts all new requests on a waitlist. Meta announced the donation on June 12 with the association, saying more than 130,000 American veterans are legally blind and will be
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Microsoft released fixes for 1,093 security flaws on Tuesday, its second straight monthly update above 1,000. Only one was already under attack, an Outlook bug that hands attackers a user’s NTLMv2 password hash, and Microsoft’s advisory credits its discovery in part to a researcher working with Anthropic’s Claude. The size of these releases has changed