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The U.K. energy company said a redirected payment meant for a contractor instead landed in a hacker's bank account.

Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.

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The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.
Instagram first debuted its movie rating inspired content settings in limited countries in 2025.

Two Alphabet-owned businesses are teaming up to find potholes and share that information with cities.

Radify Metals is developing a new way to process a variety of metals that promises to be pollution free.

Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II.

The company's novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military.

Pronto's autonomous haulage trucks are about to start operating at Mariana Minerals's Utah copper mine -- the first such deal since Pronto got acquired by Travis Kalanick's Atoms Inc.

The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and is blocking their ability to send software updates to users.

An Avride autonomous vehicle near Austin hit the duck, facing backlash from the community. "It didn't slow down or hesitate at all, just steamrolled right through," according to a witness.

Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.

Canva says the acquisitions add strengths in agentic AI, data infrastructure, marketing automation, and customer engagement.

AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.

Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to load any new content.

This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.

Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.

Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America still has a long and winding regulatory road before it can launch a commercial robotaxi service.



