A federal appeals court just made it official. Border agents can pick up any traveler’s cellphone at an airport or land crossing, scroll through messages, photos and browsing history, and do so for no reason at all. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit delivered that holding on September 17, 2026, in a

Victor Ciura dropped the news in a guest post on the Rust Foundation site last week. Rust now holds tier-1 language status inside Microsoft. It stands equal with C++, C# and TypeScript as one of the company’s most supported options for internal development. The designation signals far more than a label. Teams gain a complete,

Apple has quietly raised the bar for its most advanced artificial intelligence features. Owners of the newest iPhones now face a stark choice. Free up significant space on their devices or miss out on key capabilities in the latest software update. iOS 27 rolled out this week. With it came a major expansion of Apple

European banks hold their own against American rivals in everyday lending and deposit gathering. Yet when it comes to trading, investment banking and the sophisticated machinery of modern finance, they fall short. That gap, senior EU officials declared Friday, stems from a simple problem of size and structure. “If European banks want to compete directly

Security teams at Google have spent years hardening Android against cellular threats. One persistent vector stands out. The decades-old 2G standard still exposes millions of devices to interception and fraud. And the fix sits in plain sight. Researchers and operators continue to document attacks that exploit 2G’s one-way authentication. A phone must identify itself to

One junior employee’s resignation post on X set off a chain reaction. Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher at Anthropic, wrote on September 8 that his former employer and other frontier labs were “racing straight to self-improving intelligence and gambling with our lives.” A senior engineer quickly backed him up. Many inside the company, the post

Thirty years have passed since a handful of developers in Germany set out to build a desktop for Linux. What started as a personal project now powers devices at NASA, in Mercedes vehicles and on the Steam Deck. This weekend, as KDE marks its anniversary at Akademy in Graz, Austria, two longtime contributors plan to

The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a lopsided rebuke to the unchecked expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure last week. Lawmakers voted 417-3 to advance the Ratepayer Protection Act. The measure aims to stop ordinary families and small businesses from subsidizing the massive electricity demands of tech giants’ server farms. But. This isn’t some sweeping federal

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday that pushes the state to move faster on independent audits of powerful artificial intelligence systems and explore an emergency shutoff mechanism for the most advanced models. The directive comes hours after his office highlighted recent alarming episodes at AI labs. It positions California as the de

Austin Larsen stood before security researchers at LABScon on Sept. 18, 2026, and dropped a revelation. While the loose collective known as TeamPCP tore through open-source repositories and corporate networks earlier this year, Google had eyes inside their most private discussions. The disclosure, reported first by WIRED, exposed more than just another success for Google’s