Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months
The buzzy startup raised another $600 million in a Series C extension round, bringing the total of the round to $900 million.
Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features
Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts.
China's AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market
Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).
Apple Watch Series 12 hands-on: New sensing system, health features and audio intelligence
There was a lot more new stuff than expected.
Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled
Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation
European founders and VCs urge lawmakers ‘to get EU Inc right’
Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that 'EU Inc.' shouldn’t be watered down.
Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can't break America's monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chipmaking components, but Spruce Pine still holds the crucible monopoly
Pacific Quartz gets its high-purity quartz qualified for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing.
List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642531 Points: 350 # Comments: 117
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Accord...
iOS 27 brings GymKit to iPhone and AirPods, but what does it actually do?
GymKit is a great idea that has never been fully realized. Now, it doesn't require an Apple Watch to take advantage of.
NASA and IBM made an AI model for exploring the Moon
NASA and IBM's latest collaboration is an AI model of the moon made for the Artemis era.
The state of ABF substrates in data center silicon in 2026 — solving the supply crunch and material wall beneath every AI accelerator
ABF substrates underpin today’s most advanced AI chips, but soaring demand and expanding accelerator packages are creating new supply and technical bottlenecks that the industry is currently racing to resolve
US Army places $11M bet on Austin-based GPS alternative Tern
Tern has described its tech as "Google Maps for the battlefield."
Modded RTX 5090 ditches 16-pin power for triple 8-pin connectors — draws up to 900W and hits 3,400 MHz
TecLab’s experiment puts the humble 8-pin connector to an extreme test, with the modified RTX 5090 pulling more than 120A while avoiding the newer 12V-2x6 design altogether.
The iPhone Duo is Apple at its absolute best (and a little bit at its worst)
Wow. After Samsung had a seven-year head start on Apple in the foldables market, the company really had to live up to its ethos of waiting until it could do a far better job than everyone else, and boy did it deliver with the iPhone Duo! It was abundantly clear that Apple had thought through ever...
Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA's first astronaut emeriti
"Artemis II is done."
Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree
Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups
TSMC, Samsung, and Intel shore up support with ASML to deploy larger High-NA EUV photomasks — 6×12-inch photomask transition may take years despite unified effort
ASML, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC back development of 6×12-inch to build large processors using High-NA EUV lithography systems without stitching.
Microsoft says September updates fix mouse settings reset issues
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that wiped mouse settings on some Windows 11 systems after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update. [...]
Trump Mobile's T1 Phone now costs $250 more
Trump Mobile's T1 Phone, which an iFixit teardown revealed to be pretty much identical to an HTC handset, got a $250 price hike.