Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world's biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million more on film and TV ...
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If you've had some songs in your Apple Music app turn gray and become unavailable, there are some things you can try.
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
The company blames technical errors and a difference of opinion on how wages should be calculated for pay irregularities.
Apple today announced that Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available in eight additional Latin American countries, with support from six payment platforms across the region. Here are the details. more…
Security researchers developed an attack that lets hackers with privileged access register a rogue external MFA provider that steals users' passwords during legitimate login attempts. [...]
There is no single definitive test for these worms, but the tail is fairly convincing.
Sweden's data privacy regulator, IMY, has imposed a $183,000 (SEK 1.8 million) fine on IT systems provider Miljödata for inadequate security measures leading to a breach in August 2025 affecting 2.2 million people. [...]
'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
Apple today updated its official list of digital camera RAW formats supported across its platforms, adding support for 11 models from several manufacturers. Here are the details. more…
Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime ...
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices...
Not that there's anything wrong with it
Keeping with Apple’s pledge that Tim Cook would remain involved in Apple’s government relations around the world after stepping down as CEO, he met this week with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Here are the details. more…
Cities defend permit requirements, say ISPs aren't building networks fast enough.
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. [...]
It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.
Earlier this summer, Apple closed a portion of the Apple Park Visitor Center as it worked to “improve our store.” That space has now reopened, and the big change is that Apple has removed the augmented reality experience that let visitors use custom iPads to view Apple Park. more…