The White House is summoning crypto and banking industry reps to try and salvage a stalled digital asset bill. The key fight? Whether crypto exchanges can offer rewards on customer token holdings, which banks say siphons deposits.
Amazon Game Studios is losing its boss, Christoph Hartmann, as part of a massive new round of 16,000 company-wide layoffs. This follows a previous cut of 14,000 jobs last October and signals a major retreat from Amazon’s original gaming ambitions.
A leaked Google bug report has given us a first look at Aluminium OS, a desktop-style interface running Android 16. The footage shows a ChromeOS-like taskbar and window controls, hinting at a major convergence. But will it actually ship?
Anthropic has turned its Claude AI into a workplace command center by letting users interact with apps like Slack, Asana, and Figma without leaving the chat. This major expansion, powered by open-source tech, is free for paid Claude users. It signals a fierce new phase in the battle for enterprise A
MITO AI has raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The startup is launching a platform to help filmmakers manage and generate AI assets for longer projects.
A new social engineering campaign is targeting major US companies. The group ShinyHunters is using “vishing” to steal credentials and access sensitive data, hitting Bumble, Panera Bread, Match, and CrunchBase.
A leaker on Weibo suggests Apple is developing a new, ultra-thin Face ID module, possibly for a future iPhone Air 2. This component could be the key to finally bringing Face ID to the MacBook, a feature fans have wanted for nearly a decade.
A research paper argues AI agents built on LLMs have a fundamental complexity ceiling. Beyond it, they will deliver incorrect answers, and even verification systems will fail. This casts a shadow on the rush to automate real-world tasks.
A major trial is underway, with a plaintiff claiming social media addiction caused her mental health disorders. It’s the first of thousands of similar lawsuits against Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube. The verdict could redefine platform liability.
The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is forking its own login manager, but it requires systemd-logind. This move explicitly drops support for FreeBSD and other non-Linux systems, highlighting a growing platform dependency for major open-source desktops.
