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A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak

LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that opens the door for hackers to unlock and break into older iPhones.

Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet

RYAN WHITWAM

Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."

Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach

JAGMEET SINGH

The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

TIM DE CHANT

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal

JULIE BORT

What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and hiring new execs.

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

PARESH DAVE, LAUREN GOODE

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.

Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US

TIM DE CHANT

Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.

The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

RUSSELL BRANDOM

The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs

DAN GOODIN

Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.

Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake

JON BRODKIN

"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

PARESH DAVE

The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.

A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified

RITSUKO KAWAI

Researchers say the discovery could be a “Rosetta Stone” for cosmic signals.

Man used massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went as well as you'd expect.

BETH MOLE

He had retinal tears and bruises from squishing his eyeballs with the gun.

GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers

JEREMY HSU

US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.

Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets

ERIC BERGER

SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.