Top Tech Stories of the Week – September 28th, 2025

September 29th, 2025 No comments
  • UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5B loan after hack disrupts vehicle production for weeks – TechCrunch | Link
  • Google’s gradient ‘G’ logo is rolling out everywhere – The Verge | Link
  • Ground testing anomaly destroys Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha booster intended for next flight – Spaceflight Now | Link
  • Amazon’s 2025 hardware event: the 8 biggest announcements – The Verge | Link
  • Eight Sleep’s first water-chilled pillow cover costs a cool $1,049 – The Verge | Link
  • Google reveals its Gemini-powered smart home lineup and AI strategy – TechCrunch | Link
Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – September 14th, 2025

September 16th, 2025 No comments
  • Framework deal reached over future of TikTok – AP News | Link
  • Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM – Ars Technica | Link
  • Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display – The Verge | Link
  • YouTube just announced a bunch of AI tools for creators – Engadget | Link
  • China reportedly bans tech companies from buying NVIDIA’s AI chips – Engadget | Link
  • Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal – Ars Technica | Link
  • Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome and letting it do stuff for you – The Verge | Link
  • Microsoft is turning Foxconn’s empty buildings into the ‘world’s most powerful’ AI data center – The Verge | Link
  • Amazon is closing all Fresh grocery stores in the UK – Engadget | Link
  • Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year – The Verge | Link
  • Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its data centers for mass surveillance of Palestinians – Engadget | Link
  • Amazon will debut the Fire TV’s new Vega OS next week – Android Police | Link
  • $14 billion deal keeps TikTok alive in U.S. – Search Engine Land | Link
Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – August 24th, 2025

August 27th, 2025 No comments
  • YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators – Ars Technica | Link
  • Microsoft hosts emergency press conference after protesters ‘storm a building’ – The Verge | Link
  • Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models – Engadget | Link
  • Dolby announces Dolby Vision 2, expanding picture quality ‘beyond HDR’ – Engadget | Link
  • Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors – The New York Times | Link
  • Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse – The Verge | Link
  • Trump Threatens Trade Actions After EU Fines Google Over Ads – Bloomberg | Link
  • Google finally details Gemini usage limits – The Verge | Link
  • An ‘iPhone Air,’ price hikes and AI: What to watch at Apple’s biggest event of the year – CNN Business | Link

 

Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – August 10th, 2025

August 11th, 2025 No comments
  • Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – Engadget | Link
  • Microsoft Sued For Killing Windows 10—All Users Must Act Now – Forbes | Link
  • Amazon is ready to launch its Starlink competitor – The Verge | Link
  • Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature – The Verge | Link
  • HTC takes on Meta with the Vive Eagle smart glasses – Engadget | Link
  • The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess – Ars Technica | Link
  • Steam can’t escape the fallout from Visa and Mastercard’s censorship – Polygon | Link
  • Google launches its own ‘MagSafe’ with PixelSnap – TechCrunch | Link
  • Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder – Engadget | Link
  • AI browsers may be the best thing that ever happened to scammers – Engadget | Link
  • Google Pixel Watch 4 is the first with satellite communication support – GSMArena | Link

Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – July 20th, 2025

July 24th, 2025 No comments
  • Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day – TechCrunch | Link
  • OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity – Engadget | Link
  • Google’s NotebookLM can now make narrated slideshows with AI – The Verge | Link
  • China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market – Ars Technica | Link
  • Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor – The Verge | Link

Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – June 29th, 2025

July 3rd, 2025 No comments
  • Microsoft mass layoffs: Thousands of jobs cut, Xbox division hit hard – Mashable | Link
  • Qantas cyberattack: Data breach impacts 6 million customer accounts – Mashable | Link
  • Defense department cuts weather satellite data – NPR | Link
  • EU says it will continue rolling out AI legislation on schedule – TechCrunch | Link
  • Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing – Bleeping Computer | Link
  • UAE’s deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold – TechCrunch | Link
  • Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets – The Verge | Link
Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – June 8th, 2025

June 9th, 2025 No comments
  • China’s Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious ‘quasi-moon’ asteroid – Space | Link
  • Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies – The Verge | Link
  • Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice – PC Mag | Link
  • Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket – The Verge | Link
  • Why Iran Is Telling Residents to Delete WhatsApp Now – TIME | Link
  • The Exploration Company claims partial success of Mission Possible reentry spacecraft – SpaceNews | Link
Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – May 18th, 2025

May 21st, 2025 No comments
  • Google introduces the Deep Think reasoning model for Gemini 2.5 Pro and a better 2.5 Flash – Engadget | Link
  • Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025 – WIRED | Link
  • France Endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles. Here’s How It’s Leading the Open Source Initiative – Tech Report | Link
  • Claude Blackmailed an Engineer Having an Affair to Survive in Test Run – Business Insider | Link
  • Shein’s ‘fake discounts’ break the law, EU says – The Verge | Link
  • SES’s Intelsat acquisition nears EU approval to counter Starlink: report – Capacity Media | Link
  • Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’ – CNBC | Link

 

Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – April 27th, 2025

April 29th, 2025 No comments
  • Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX’s Starlinks – AP News | Link
  • Ireland fines TikTok 530 million euros for sending EU user data to China – CNBC | Link
  • Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets – TechCrunch | Link
  • Soviet-era spacecraft crashes back to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit – France24 | Link
  • Google is bringing Gemini to Wear OS, Android Auto and more – Engadget | Link
  • Eight Sleep adds a pricey blanket and speakers to its Pod 5 sleep system – The Verge | Link
  • OpenAI may build data centers in the UAE –  TechCrunch | Link
Categories: Tech News Tags:

Top Tech Stories of the Week – April 20th, 2025

April 20th, 2025 No comments
  • Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives – Ars Technica | Link
  • FTC Sues Uber, Alleging Deceptive Billing, Cancellation Practices – WSJ | Link
  • Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram – Drop Site News | Link
  • NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures images of peanut-shaped asteroid during 30,000 mph flyby – CBS News | Link
  • EU whacks Apple and Meta with $800 million in antitrust fines. Meta calls its penalty a ‘tariff’ – CNN Business | Link
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut

Categories: Tech News Tags: