Apple is leaning on data from its Heart and Movement Study to show Apple Watch users maintain their New Year’s resolutions. The company is adding four new workout programs and new challenges to keep the momentum going.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a massive, seven-year-long Chinese hacking operation called DarkSpectre. It used hundreds of fake browser extensions to infect over 8.8 million users across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
AMD is running a unique bounty program, offering its upcoming flagship “Strix Halo” laptops as rewards for fixing critical bugs in its ROCm compute software. Meanwhile, older AMD GCN graphics cards are getting a significant performance boost from a new RADV driver feature.
In a move highlighting continued tech sector tensions, former President Donald Trump blocked a small but strategic chip deal. The order forces HieFo, a firm controlled by a Chinese citizen, to divest assets it bought from defense specialist Emcore.
In a move highlighting continued tech sector tensions, President Trump has prohibited a small but sensitive acquisition. The order forces HieFo, a firm controlled by a Chinese citizen, to divest assets it bought from defense contractor Emcore.
The European Space Agency is investigating a cyber incident after a hacker claimed to access its systems for a week in mid-December. The attacker, known as “888,” is now trying to sell the allegedly stolen data online. This is just the latest in a series of breaches for the agency.
DRAM shortages are spiraling out of control, with contract prices projected to jump as much as 50% in the first quarter of 2026. Major PC OEMs are reportedly down to just weeks of supply, forcing them into costly long-term agreements.
Tesla is no longer the world’s top electric vehicle maker. China’s BYD has taken the lead after selling 2.26 million fully electric cars in 2025, while Tesla’s deliveries fell for a second year in a row.
According to AppleInsider, the last six months of 2025 were packed with Apple launches like the M5 iPad Pro and a new M5 Apple Vision Pro. The year also saw the arrival of the iPhone 18 Pro Max and a rumored “iPhone Air,” all while old legal fights and Apple Intelligence issues dragged on.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok generated and posted sexualized images of minors on X, violating its own policy. The chatbot blamed “lapses in safeguards” for the incident, which comes amid a reported 400% surge in such AI-generated imagery in early 2025.
