Omdia says phone prices will stay high after the shortage ends

Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 mill [...]

Putting a number on a founder’s voice

Every few months another agency pitches me a personal-branding framework, and the pitches tend to land in the same place, with stages, arrows, and a trademark symbol above advice that circulated a dec [...]

Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine

Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendee’s device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June [...]

As AI Generates More Messages, Human Recognition Becomes More Valuable

As organizations embrace AI to communicate faster and at greater scale, the companies preserving trust aren’t sending more messages; they’re creating more meaningful human moments. Artificial inte [...]

eBay sent them a bloody pig mask. Now it owes $56m, and no NDA.

The most disturbing corporate harassment campaign in recent tech history has a price. eBay and three of its former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they set out to destroy for writing a c [...]

groundcover raises $100M to build observability for the AI era

groundcover, an observability startup that keeps customers’ monitoring data inside their own cloud, has raised $100 million in a Series C round. The financing was led by the growth investor One Pea [...]

NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world

NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a [...]

Hackers stole Estée Lauder staff’s bank and health data. The company took nearly a year to say so.

The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComputer first reported the disclosure. Nea [...]

UK businesses have tripled their AI adoption. Most are still barely scratching the surface.

Three years ago, roughly one in eight UK businesses with ten or more employees reported using artificial intelligence; today, the Office for National Statistics puts that figure at around one in thre [...]