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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.
The FBI’s new alert describes a phishing attack that never asks for your password. You approve a permission screen on a real Microsoft or Google page, and the attacker keeps reading your mail afterward. Resetting your password does nothing. Here is the setting that actually cuts them off.
The Department of War added tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, its secure AI portal, alongside Google’s Gemini. Of the 3 million eligible military and civilian personnel, 1.7 million had already signed up, though reporting found some staff learned about the rollout only after it went live.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, the first time an AI chatbot has been placed in that legal category. OpenAI now has until December to complete risk audits, algorithmic transparency and researcher data access, or face fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
A Taiwanese man opened his robot vacuum’s app to talk to his wife, found a live camera feed and another man, and hit record. The footage won him NT$500,000 in civil damages and a five month sentence for unlawful recording. Most robot vacuum owners have never checked who can still log in.
iPhone owners are reporting 21GB of storage freed by switching off Apple Intelligence, with the drop showing up under Photos. Apple’s own model requirement is about 7GB. Here is what the rest of that number is, and why some of it reappears.
Kickresume’s Will AI Take My Job scores 756 occupations using Anthropic’s Economic Index and Labor Department data. Customer service reps get 63 percent, hairdressers get 3. The number is real, and it does not measure what most people think it measures.
Google Maps renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users three days after Trump signed the order. Apple Maps has not moved, so the President called Apple directly. The mechanism behind all of it is one row in a federal database.
Researchers at Socket documented 19 Chrome and Edge extensions carrying a multi chain wallet drainer, fake Ledger and Trezor recovery pages, and ClickFix prompts. Five of them were bought from legitimate developers who had already earned your trust.
Brave 1.94 on desktop adds Email Aliases, disposable addresses you can generate inside any signup form. Five are free, mobile is coming, and a paid tier is planned. Here is what it actually fixes and what it does not.
Anthropic started contacting Claude users on August 30 after infostealer malware on their own computers lifted active login sessions. Because the attackers replay session cookies, two factor authentication never gets a chance to fire.