Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that law enforcement must obtain a narrowly tailored warrant before using geofence data to identify cellphone users near a crime scene, marking a major Fourth Amendment victory for digital privacy.
Japanese telecom giant KDDI disclosed that a cyberattack on its shared email infrastructure exposed up to 14.22 million account credentials spanning six internet service providers, including Nifty, JCOM, and Biglobe.
Rocket Lab will purchase Iridium Communications for $8 billion, combining its launch capabilities with Iridium's 66-satellite LEO network and 2.55 million subscribers to create a vertically integrated space infrastructure provider.
The EU Council has formally adopted the Digital Omnibus package, the most significant set of amendments to the EU AI Act since it entered force in 2024. High-risk AI compliance deadlines are extended by up to 16 months, and a new ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery takes effect by December 2026.
Google told Meta it was unable to supply all the Gemini computing capacity the social media giant wanted, delaying several of Meta's AI initiatives and exposing the depth of the current compute crunch.
Facing a global memory shortage that has already forced price hikes, Apple is asking the White House to approve sourcing RAM from CXMT, a Chinese supplier on the Pentagon military blacklist.
SpaceX has filed for a million-satellite orbital data center constellation. SoftBank's CEO argues electricity is the wrong cost to optimize — hardware and chips dominate data center economics, and no satellite changes that.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signed off on a named-entity authorization that restores Mythos 5 access for vetted US organizations — while Fable 5 remains blocked.
The startup, backed by Khosla Ventures and Jeff Bezos, uses Medal gameplay footage with explicit action labels to train a single AI model capable of controlling both virtual agents and real-world robots.
Samsung Group announced a 10-year, 1,000 trillion won ($648 billion) investment in semiconductors, AI data centers, batteries, and displays in South Korea — the biggest single corporate investment commitment the country has ever seen.
IBM unveiled the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip, packing 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-sized die using a stacked 3D design called nanostack — promising 50% more performance and 70% better efficiency than today's 2nm chips.
Sam Altman called any valuation below $1 trillion a 'nonstarter' when bankers presented him with options. SoftBank — which holds roughly $65 billion in OpenAI — saw its shares fall 13% on the news. The delay would push what was expected to be one of the largest IPOs in history into a second year of waiting.