Apple Restores Services After Outage Hits App Store and Music
The green dots returned to Apple’s system status page late on July 27, one by one, as engineers confirmed what users had been waiting hours to hear: the App Store…
Elon Musk Loses $130 Billion in Five Days, Calls Himself a ‘Former Trillionaire’
The post went up on his social platform late in the week, in the jokey register he uses when the news is bad: a reference to himself as a “trillionaire,”…
SK Hynix Denies Intel Ohio Talks Even as Korean Media Report Them
The statement was categorical: SK Hynix denied that it is in talks to acquire Intel’s semiconductor campus in Ohio, responding to an exclusive report from Korea JoongAng Daily. The denial…
ASML and US Chip Stocks Slip on Report of China’s Homegrown DUV Tools
The report, carried by TechPowerUp and Investing.com, described small-batch production of a Chinese immersion DUV lithography machine — the equipment used to print circuits at the 28-nanometer node and above,…
Circle Buys IBM’s Blockchain Patents, Becomes Top Patent Holder in the Field
The transaction was announced without a price. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, said it has acquired IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio — nearly 1,000 patents — making it the…
Xbox Live Goes Dark, and Even Single-Player Games Stop Working
The error message appeared on millions of screens on July 27: a failed sign-in, a license check that would not complete, a game that refused to launch. Xbox Live, Microsoft’s…
Waymo Weighs Exit From Uber Partnership
The notice arrived in late July, and it was polite but unambiguous: Waymo told Uber it intends to operate independently in Austin and Atlanta starting in January 2028, when the…
SpaceX Deploys First V3 Starlinks, Booster Recovery Fails Again
The booster was supposed to slow down, hover over the Gulf of Mexico and splash down under control. Instead, on July 24, the Super Heavy stage of SpaceX’s Starship came…
Apple’s Foldable iPhone Nears Production as Samsung Readies a Counter
The panels are already in production. According to supply chain reports carried by Yahoo Finance, Apple’s first foldable iPhone is close to mass production, with a launch possible within months.…
Two Former VW Engineers Charged Over Rivian Insider Trading
The trades were placed quietly, in accounts that did not attract immediate attention, but their timing was too precise to be coincidence. The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two…
