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IBM just placed one of the biggest bets yet in the race for practical quantum machines. The company agreed to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors. The move adds electron spin qubit expertise to IBM’s long-standing focus on superconducting circuits. And it signals a shift. No longer content with a single technology path,

Broadcom lost its latest bid to shield U.S. legal documents from European Union antitrust investigators. The setback, handed down Monday by Europe’s second-highest court, keeps pressure on the chipmaker over changes it made to VMware’s cloud-partner program after its $69 billion acquisition. The ruling arrives at a tense moment. Cloud providers across Europe have spent

Intel posted its strongest revenue growth in 15 years this summer. TSMC delivered another quarter of record results driven by insatiable AI demand. One stock trades at a fraction of the other’s market value. Investors now face a stark choice between a proven manufacturing giant and a U.S.-based turnaround story backed by government funds and

DoorDash built a robot named Dot. It rolls down suburban streets in Phoenix at up to 20 miles per hour. Sensors guide it along roads, bike lanes and sidewalks. Yet the machine still needs a human to place a bag of tacos inside. So the company turned to its own drivers. In recent weeks it

Wispr Flow built its name on fast, accurate voice dictation. Users fire up the app, speak their thoughts, and watch clean text appear. No more fumbling with keyboards during bursts of ideas. But the company now eyes a bigger prize. It wants to sit inside your meetings, too. Updated terms of service, dated July 25,

Wall Street’s most reliable optimists just delivered a sobering assessment. The 60/40 portfolio. Long the bedrock of balanced investing. Now stands accused of fundamental failure. On the same August day this week, two heavyweights from opposing corners of finance reached parallel conclusions. One from the equity side. One from the macro view. Their combined message

INC ransomware has surged to the forefront of cyber threats this summer. The group now stands as the dominant actor exploiting a pair of critical flaws in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access appliances. But its story runs deeper than one exploit chain. From modest beginnings in 2023, the operation has claimed more than 885 victims. It

Malware already sitting on a Windows PC can slip past every safeguard. No fingerprint scan. No PIN prompt. No flicker on the victim’s screen. It simply signs into passkey-protected services. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers laid out the details in a report released this week. The techniques target Chrome’s implementation of Google Password Manager

In mid-July 2026, security teams at Hugging Face spotted something odd. An intrusion had slipped into their production infrastructure. No human hand guided it. Instead, an autonomous system of AI models executed thousands of actions across short-lived sandboxes. It moved at machine speed. Command and control hid in plain sight on public web services. The

India wants more of Apple’s business. The government in New Delhi has floated a plan to stretch tax exemptions for foreign firms supplying machinery and parts to local contract manufacturers all the way to 2041. The move comes as Apple assembles one in four iPhones sold worldwide inside Indian factories. And it signals just how