'Encrypt it already' campaign challenges big tech to keep your data secure
appleinsider - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new advocacy initiative directly targeting Apple, Google, and other tech giants to demand broader adoption of data encryption and more transparent privacy controls.Encrypt it AlreadyThe campaign is known a…
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Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
BeauHD / slashdot - Comcast's attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn't stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and oth…
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Apple Concedes It Entered The New Year With “Depleted Inventories” And “Less Flexibility” As Memory And Advanced Node Supply Constraints Begin To Bite
Rohail Saleem / wccftech - Apple is beginning to feel the pinch from the oncoming constraints around memory products and TSMC's choked advanced node supply lines, albeit in a managed fashion. This is the biggest takeaway from Apple's just-concluded Q1 2026 earnings call. Apple is f…
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What’s Actually New in the ‘AirTag 2’?
Jesse Hollington / idropnews - Apple's 2026 "AirTag 2" is here. We dive into the teardown, new Precision Finding range, louder speaker, and why the original model might still be a better deal.Read More...
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Bitcoin drops below $84,000 as tech-led stock selloff pulls metals off record highs
Kyle Baird / theblock - Crypto liquidations topped $1 billion as leveraged long positions were flushed during the slide and the market cap dropped below $3 trillion.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone Demand Was 'Simply Staggering' Towards End of 2025
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today reported earnings results for the fourth quarter of the 2025 calendar year, including record-breaking $143.8 billion revenue that was up 16% year-over-year. These results were driven in part by exceptionally strong iPhone sales.iPhone revenue …
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Waymo will start offering rides to San Francisco airport
cnbc - Alphabet's Waymo division said it will begin taking some passengers to San Francisco's airport and will expand in the coming months.
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Apple buys Israeli startup Q.AI as the AI race heats up
Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Apple announced its acquisition of Q.AI for a reported nearly $2 billion, making it the company's second-largest acquisition to date.
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iPhone 16 Named World's Best-Selling Smartphone of 2025, Apple Takes 7 of Top 10 Spots [Report]
iclarified - The iPhone 16 finished 2025 as the world's best-selling smartphone. Apple didn't just take the top spot. It placed seven models in the global Top 10, according to new data from Counterpoint Research. Apple and Samsung were once again the only two brands r…
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Nothing says no to flagship phones in 2026, but confirms the 4a series is coming
digitaltrends - Nothing won't launch a new flagship in 2026, but Carl Pei confirms the Phone 4a series is coming, and it's aiming closer to flagship territory than ever.The post Nothing says no to flagship phones in 2026, but confirms the 4a series is coming appeared fir…
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If you hate AI clutter in browsers, Vivaldi’s new tab controls are for you
digitaltrends - Vivaldi 7.8 skips AI flash and focuses on faster tab tiling, letting you drag tabs into split views and open links straight into a tile, so your main page stays anchored while you compare.The post If you hate AI clutter in browsers, Vivaldi’s new tab cont…
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Google rolls out Gemini sidebar and Nano Banana in Chrome
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Google has begun rolling out Gemini-powered tools to the Chrome browser starting today, including a sidebar for multitasking chats, an image generator, and previews of task automation, following its recent AI updates to Gmail. The initial feature introduc…
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OpenAI is about to raise $60 billion
Berry Zwets / techzine - Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are in talks to invest up to $60 billion in OpenAI. Nvidia is negotiating for up to $30 billion, Microsoft for less than $10 billion, and newcomer Amazon for possibly more than $20 billion. This is according to The Informatio…
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Pasqal backer daphni closes €260M Blue fund to transform lab breakthroughs into startups
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Europe is packed with scientific talent, with 2.2 million researchers. France alone pours €60B a year into labs.…
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