Lyft Enters Robotaxis Through Waymo
Lyft riders in Nashville can now summon a car with no one in the driver’s seat. On September 13, Waymo’s driverless taxis became available through the Lyft app, the first…
Porsche Exits Rimac, Booking About a Billion Euros
Porsche has sold its stakes in Bugatti Rimac and the Rimac Group, closing the book on an experiment that paired a century-old sports-car maker with a young electric-supercar company. The…
Nvidia Extends CUDA-Q Into Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
The wait used to run about five months. Researchers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory who write fault-tolerant quantum algorithms spent roughly that long developing and validating code before it could…
Boeing Reaches a Tentative Deal With Its Engineers, Easing a Strike Threat
The engineers and technical workers who design and certify Boeing’s planes voted down a contract offer in August and authorized a strike. On the other side of that standoff, the…
SpaceX’s Starship Is Set to Carry Its First Commercial Payload
The world’s largest rocket has flown thirteen times, and every one of those flights carried test hardware or nothing at all. The fourteenth, according to a Federal Aviation Administration airspace…
Revolut Hands Over Customer Data in a Phishing That Passed Every Check
A fraudster who wanted the personal records of Revolut customers did not hack a server or crack a password. They sent a request that looked like it came from a…
Broadcom’s VMware Licensing Overhaul Draws Another Round of EU Questions
A European cloud provider renewed its VMware contract this year and opened a bill that was roughly eight times what it had paid the year before. Some customers report increases…
Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic CEO Seat After Board Revolt
The board voted, and Matt Mullenweg refused to leave. The Automattic founder, who built the company behind WordPress, was placed on forced paid leave by his own directors last week,…
Tesla Sets October 1 for the Roadster Reveal
Tesla’s official account posted two words on X on September 12: “Go for launch.” The image beneath them carried a date, “10.01.” Elon Musk made it explicit a short time…
Apple Keeps Qualcomm in the U.S. iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple updated its technical specifications page this week, and the change was smaller than the headlines that followed it. The U.S. version of the iPhone 18 Pro Max will keep…
