Tech

The argument over whether artificial intelligence destroys or creates jobs has produced a new data point that complicates both sides. A study by finance platform Ramp and workforce analytics firm Revelio Labs found that companies spending heavily on AI are expanding their workforces, including at the entry level. The report analyzed nearly 22,000 companies using […]

OpenClaw, the open-source self-hosted AI agent platform, has released native iOS and Android companion apps, allowing users to control their AI agents from a phone for the first time. But initial reviews suggest the mobile experience needs significant refinement. OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that runs on a Mac, Linux machine or Windows PC […]

The marketing push to frame AI agents as digital employees rather than software tools is producing a measurable and dangerous effect: people become less careful when they think an AI is a coworker, according to new research published in Harvard Business Review. Emma Wiles of Boston University conducted a study in which managers evaluated work […]

A growing number of software developers and startup founders report that AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex and OpenClaw are triggering patterns that look a lot like addiction, with sleepless nights, cognitive overload and burnout becoming widespread. The phenomenon, sometimes called “AI brain fry,” has drawn attention from researchers at Boston Consulting Group […]

Hotmail turned 30 years old this month, and the estimated 400 million @hotmail.com addresses created over its lifetime still work, even if most of them have not been logged into in years. The service launched on July 4, 1996, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. The name was a play on the acronym HTML […]

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday announced an 800 trillion won ($520 billion) public-private investment plan alongside Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, aiming to cement the country’s dominance in memory chip manufacturing as AI-driven demand continues to outpace supply. The plan calls for each company to commit approximately 400 trillion won ($260 billion) […]

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI has disclosed a major data breach potentially affecting up to 14.22 million email accounts across six internet service providers, making it one of the largest cybersecurity incidents in Japan this year. KDDI said it detected unauthorized access to its managed email system on June 17, 2026, and contained the intrusion the […]

WhatsApp has started letting users reserve usernames, ahead of a broader rollout planned for later this year that will allow people to message and call each other without sharing phone numbers. Users can now secure their preferred username through the Profile section in WhatsApp settings. The reservation system is designed to prevent username squatting and […]

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that geofence search warrants are subject to the Fourth Amendment, requiring law enforcement to establish probable cause before demanding location data from technology companies. The decision in Chatrie v. United States marks the first time the Supreme Court has addressed the constitutionality of geofence warrants, a law […]

Loongson Technology has announced the Loongson 3C3000, a 16-core server processor built on the company’s homegrown LoongArch instruction set architecture, targeting low-cost small and medium business servers for file storage, databases, and web hosting. The 3C3000 uses Loongson’s LA364E core design running at 1.5 GHz to 1.8 GHz with 16 physical cores and 16 threads. […]