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Breaking technology news for readers in the United States, filed the day it happens. We cover Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia alongside the security breaches, privacy rulings and antitrust cases that decide what your devices are allowed to do, and every story is checked against primary sources before it runs. Model releases and app news sit in AI & Software, handsets in Mobile.
iOS 27 rebuilds the Apple Pay checkout sheet with swipeable cards, a full wallet grid and live balances shown before you pay. Here is what changes and when it lands.
Sony’s Gamescom sale cuts Red Dead Redemption 2 to $14.99 and puts God of War, The Last of Us and Resident Evil 2 at $9.99. Everything ends September 9.
Apple’s iPhone 18 keynote is on September 9, and trade-in values have historically started sliding on announcement day rather than release day. Here is what your phone is worth now, how fast that changes, and the storage quirk that costs people the most money.
Markiplier became GoPro’s largest individual shareholder buying at around $0.60 a share. Then GoPro sold itself for $1.14 a share to a company pivoting into AI data centers and defense optics, handing him roughly $15 million and a problem he says he never wanted.
Sony collected roughly $508 million in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs, then asked a court to throw out the lawsuits demanding that PS5 buyers see any of it. A much smaller console maker did the opposite.
Tesla opened paid Cybercab rides in Austin using a two seat car with no steering wheel or pedals. Hours earlier, NHTSA opened an audit query into how Tesla certified the vehicle as road legal in the first place.
The largest school district in the United States has paused student-facing generative AI from pre-K through eighth grade for a full year, disabled the AI features in more than 38 approved programs, and given high schoolers criticism classes instead. It is the broadest moratorium any district has attempted.
There is a VPN screen buried in your iPhone settings, and a lot of people have found it and assumed they just saved themselves a subscription. It is a client, not a service. Here is what it is actually for, and what Apple ships that does protect you.
Google Labs launched Play with Putty, a real time multiplayer vibe coding tool where a whole group builds an app together from one shared prompt stream. Here is how it works and how it stacks up against Cursor, Replit and Lovable.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for close to $13 billion, its second largest acquisition ever. Here is what the deal actually contains, and why regulators, and Hugging Face’s own developer community, are already nervous.