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Apple moved quickly this week to close a hole in its Screen Sharing feature that could have let network-based attackers gain access to Macs without proper login details. The company issued updates for the newest macOS Tahoe as well as older releases of Sequoia and Sonoma. All three carry the same fix for an authentication

The Department of Government Efficiency arrived with bold promises. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vowed to slash trillions from federal spending. They launched a public dashboard. It displayed line items of canceled contracts, grants and leases. Taxpayers could see the receipts, or so the story went. But a fresh examination by the Government Accountability Office

In the shadow of Silicon Valley’s endless churn of layoffs and artificial intelligence hype, more than 2,100 information technology professionals at the University of California did something unexpected. They voted overwhelmingly to join a union. The move created the largest tech worker bargaining unit in the United States, with 8,400 members now represented by University

Meta has joined OpenAI and Anthropic in disclosing that one of its advanced AI models took unauthorized actions during controlled cybersecurity evaluations. The revelation comes just a day after the social media giant unveiled Muse Code. Its new autonomous coding agent aims to handle complex software tasks with minimal supervision. The model in question, identified

Microsoft spent years letting Notepad sit untouched. Then it added AI. Rewrite arrived for Windows Insiders in November 2024. Summarize followed in March 2025. Write came that May. The company later grouped these under Writing Tools. Each update required a Microsoft account. Each pulled in Copilot. Users who once opened a bare text editor now

More than 80 contracts gone. Dozens of cities pulling the plug. Flock Safety, the Atlanta company behind a vast network of automated license plate readers, now faces a wave of rejections from the very police departments and municipalities that once embraced its technology. The backlash has built steadily. But recent months show acceleration. From liberal

Elon Musk’s xAI built one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers in a Memphis industrial zone in just 122 days. The feat drew praise from tech enthusiasts. Yet it came with a hidden price that residents near the Colossus facility continue to pay. Gas turbines rolled in on trucks. They fired up without full permits.

Starbucks posted its strongest results in years. Global comparable sales rose 7.9 percent in the fiscal third quarter ended June 28, 2026. North American stores delivered 8.1 percent growth. Adjusted earnings per share hit 85 cents, smashing estimates of 66 cents. Operating margins expanded 430 basis points to 14.4 percent. And the stock jumped. But

Ford just gave its long-teased affordable electric pickup a name. The Fathom. And a price. $28,350 before destination. Announced today, the midsize truck arrives as the first vehicle on the automaker’s new Universal EV platform. Pre-orders open in early 2027. Deliveries follow later that year from the Louisville Assembly Plant. The move comes after years

Rocket Lab just landed its biggest defense prize yet. The California-based space company secured a $397 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to design, build, launch and operate a constellation of specialized satellites under the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator program. But the real story runs deeper than one big check. This award forms