Google Cloud’s Quiet Cuts Reach Its Elite Threat Hunters
The notice arrived after dark. Andrew Kopcienski, a principal threat intelligence analyst at Google, wrote on LinkedIn that he had been laid off “alongside a lot of other great folks…
Honor Launches Magic V6 Folding Phone With Waterproofing First
The most durable folding phone yet is going on sale outside China. Honor has begun shipping the Magic V6, its latest foldable, in Singapore and Malaysia at a price of…
Oura Ring 5 Gets Thinner, Lighter, Smarter
The computer on your finger is getting an upgrade. Oura, the company that made the smart ring a category, has released the fifth generation of its namesake device, and the…
Amazon Faces Class Action Over Ring’s Facial Recognition Feature
RICHMOND, Va. — The plaintiffs are neighbors who never agreed to be in the system. Virginia residents filed a class action against Amazon this week over Ring’s Familiar Faces feature,…
Microsoft Ships Seven In-House AI Models, Testing Its Ties to OpenAI
SEATTLE — On the Build 2026 stage, a Microsoft engineer handed a new reasoning model a 40,000-line codebase and asked it to find a memory leak, explain the cause in…
Apple’s Rejection of a Dictation App Reopens an Accessibility API Fight
The developer behind Whisper Pad, an offline dictation app for the Mac, built the software in part because of a hand injury that made typing painful. The app worked by…
Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT’s Role in Violent Incidents
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stood before reporters on June 1 and announced what his office described as the first-in-the-nation state lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman.…
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Over the weekend, the Instagram accounts of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force briefly displayed pro-Iranian images and messages. The defacements were…
AI Agents Are Outgrowing the Permissions Their Employers Gave Them
The scenario plays out in enterprise security teams with growing frequency. A company deploys an AI agent to help employees draft emails, update customer records and summarize documents. The agent…
Nvidia Puts an AI Agent on Every Desktop
The pitch from Jensen Huang was characteristically grand. “For forty years, you launched apps. Click. Type. With RTX Spark and Microsoft Windows, you ask, and the PC does the work,”…
