UK regulator proposes letting developers steer users off Apple and Google payments

Britain’s competition regulator has decided that the cheapest place to buy a digital subscription should not be the one place an app is forbidden from mentioning. On Tuesday the Competition and Mark [...]

iPhone 18 Pro supplier list and parts exposed in Tata data leak

The most tightly held document in consumer electronics is the bill of materials, and a chunk of Apple’s appears to be sitting on the dark web. Files posted by the ransomware group World Leaks contai [...]

Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space

The space industry can build rockets. Moving money around them is the hard part. A new startup called Nebex wants to fix that, and Google’s venture arm is backing it with $30mn. GV, formerly Google [...]

Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company

AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in [...]

China’s Nexchip seeks up to $890m in Hong Kong share sale

Nexchip Semiconductor is China’s third-largest pure-play foundry, a sentence that until recently would not have led to a Hong Kong listing. It does now. The Hefei-based, state-backed chipmaker is se [...]

Australia sues Amazon over Prime Video ads, citing unfair contract terms

The ACCC alleges Amazon buried unfair terms in Prime contracts, then used them to add ads to Prime Video for more than a million subscribers without offering refunds. The complaint Australia’s consu [...]

Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no

Marc Andreessen has a bold new claim about your health. The billionaire investor says “Doctor ChatGPT” is already a better doctor than 99% of human ones. Doctors, and the peer-reviewed evidence, s [...]

Apple says it is shipping security updates early as AI speeds up hacking

For years Apple released most of its security fixes the way it releases everything else, on a schedule, bundled into the next big version of iOS and delivered when the company was ready rather than wh [...]

US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a Senate fight

After years in which children’s online safety bills passed the Senate and then died quietly in the House, the House moved first this time, and immediately reopened the argument that has stalled the [...]