VK has sued Apple in Moscow, seeking restored apps and 58 million rubles in daily penalties for continued removals.

Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming "significant increases in memory and storage component costs." TechCrunch reports: The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that's been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon's cheapest smart speakers, the price of which jumped 60% overnight, from $49.99 to $79.99. Price-tracking sites like CamelCamelCamel show the stark uptick, which has previously hovered much ..

Google is now testing a "Device help" tool for the Pixel 11 series that is powered by Gemini. It will let you have a conversation with Gemini about things you need to troubleshoot about your phone. You can find "Device help" in the "plus" menu in Gemini. It's at the bottom of the list just above Personal Intelligence. The caveat, for now, is that this seems to be a limited test and not a mass rollout. Then again, even Google's mass rollouts take ages to reach everyone, so maybe it's the start ..

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday the data center trade isn't dead, but its next wave of winners could look very different.

Apple iPhone price hikes are reportedly coming soon, which isn't a surprise. Apple recently raised prices on MacBooks and other products.

The SEC is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details about the fund's trades, borrowing, and communications with lenders. The fund, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, managed over $30 billion and borrowed tens of billions more before leveraged bets unraveled, forcing it to sell most of its stock portfolio to Citadel at a discount. The New York Times reports: The subpoenas asked ..

According to strings accidentally left in a macOS Tahoe update, Apple's Home Hub will offer user profiles, with identity verification provided by ambient sensing and built-in cameras. Apple's Home Hub will seemingly support user accounts. With the macOS 26.7 release candidate build, Apple inadvertently revealed details about several of its upcoming products , including a camera- equipped model of AirPods . Also present was code related to the company's upcoming Home Hub, an AI-focused device ..

An unofficial project called Kindshare adds Quick Share to jailbroken Kindles, with a few key limitations.

Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'

A sensor that listens silently, then calls in a second one to ping the target, could be a key pairing that helps the US Navy track underwater drones before they reach the pier.

Upscaling software is getting better all the time, but there are still some caveats to be aware of.

Tim Cook has been CEO for 15 years and is about to step down on September 1, so Apple threw a little party in his honor on August 23 with 200 people in attendance. Apple CEO Tim Cook gets one last little celebration before stepping down September 1 Apple likes to throw a party on occasion, and the latest is a kind of going away/anniversary present for outgoing CEO Tim Cook. He's not really going anywhere though, as he's sticking around as Executive Chairman and acting as a kind of government ..

Apple is getting ready to release its first foldable phone, but the iPhone Ultra is reportedly missing two big features.

Take-Two Interactive has stepped up its efforts to unmask Cyberleek. The Grand Theft Auto maker has subpoenaed Google and X Corp.

Bitdefender VPN has an excellent starting price, even if it lacks the advanced features that privacy nerds may want.

Intel has pulled back the curtain on its next-gen Diamond Rapids Xeon CPUs, packing up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 TB of last-level cache.

After introducing a notable price hike to its Mac and iPad lineup back in June due to an unbearable memory chip price increase, the word on the street is that this year's iPhones will follow suit. In fact, a report from earlier this month says all iPhones from the 18 series will cost $100 more than their predecessors. The most recent report on the matter, however, comes from a more reputable source, and it confirms the earlier claims from other tipsters. The increasing RAM and NAND chip prices ..

Internxt is a secure cloud storage with a 5TB lifetime subscription on sale for $170

The Trump administration is proposing to make permanent a $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visas, dramatically increasing costs for employers that rely on highly skilled foreign workers in tech, education, and research. "A federal judge in June ruled that the fee was illegal and blocked the Trump administration from collecting it," reports Reuters. "A Boston-based appeals court is reviewing that decision while a different court considers whether a judge properly rejected a challenge to the fee ..

Several practical changes could soon make their way out.

Spotify not working for you on Android Auto? You're not alone.

Sandisk introduces NAS-focused SSDs spanning 500GB to 7.68TB, combining SATA and PCIe 5.0 interfaces with high endurance ratings.

With advice from infectious disease experts, I tested a low-effort way to pasteurize eggs at home.

Photographs showing the inside of an Apple Silicon AI server have surfaced online, giving a glimpse of how Apple designed its Private Cloud Compute hardware. Inside an Apple server - Image Credit: @hsuchingpo/X Apple's efforts to catch up in the field of AI have already led to the creation of Private Cloud Compute , namely Apple's own brand of secure AI cloud computing. While it has started to ship its own servers from its facility in Houston, Texas, there hasn't been much coverage about the ..

In future releases of macOS, Mac users will no longer be able to format or eject disk images using the very long-standing Terminal command, hdiutil . It won't affect many users directly, but it could well break disk repair utility apps. The new deprecation notice in Terminal for the command hdiutil. You may never have even heard of it, but since the earliest days of Mac OS X, the Terminal has included the command now called hdiutil. It's a tool for handling disk images, and AppleInsider forum ..

Zooming in on your kid's performance in the school play is about to get a whole lot easier. It's going to look better, too.

Apple says while Sign in with Apple addresses will still move to a new domain, Hide My Email will stay on iCloud.com after community pushback. Hide My Email will be sticking with the original iCloud domain Changing email domains can create chaos for website and email client administrators. After concerns were raised over Hide My Email changing to private.icloud.com, Apple has shifted course. According to a new developer document published Monday, Apple says it will no longer be moving Hide My ..

Salmonella outbreaks are seemingly everywhere right now. A good temperature probe is the last and best line of defense.

Meta's court battles are an overhang on the stock, but its business fundamentals make it one worth holding.

It's pricey, but at least you'll be able to hold onto it a few years.

Raspberry Pi has published an official guide for building a cyberdeck, leaning into a viral trend of homemade portable computers built from repurposed cases, purses, and other oddball hardware. The guide uses a Raspberry Pi 5, keyboard, battery, and Pelican-style case. The Verge reports: Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to get away from cyberdecks this year." Raspberry Pi has also increased its prices multiple ..

Netflix could soon open up its service to other streamers.

Internal tests of the Exynos 2700 have Samsung LSI buzzing the chipset outperformed Qualcomms Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (both of them, actually), according to anonymous insiders. The testing was pretty thorough and included CPU, GPU, NPU and power efficiency benchmarks. First, lets clear this up Qualcomm has officially confirmed that there will be two Elite chips in the next generation. They are tentatively being called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. This is separate from ..

AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by twenty-eight times.

Android Authority remembers the LG G Flex 2.

Apple is wasting little time following the recent record-breaking "Ted Lasso" season premiere, with production on a fifth season to begin in early 2027. Image credit: Apple TV "Ted Lasso" recently had its fourth season premiere, which drew nearly 300 million U.S. viewing minutes across its first two days. It has officially become the biggest launch for Apple TV to date. Now, it seems like Apple's ready to get the ball rolling on season five. According to Sigmund Judge, production is ..

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Taiwan has indicted nine people -- reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country -- who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. On Monday, Reuters reported that prosecutors in Keelung did not release any names but confirmed that the suspects were "charged with breach of trust and document forgery." One ..

Apple's rumored AI-powered Home lineup: a HomePod with a screen, a tabletop robot, new HomePo