Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
A US federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1
Document #65 Ryan Mac / New York Times : Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Anthony Kimery / Biometric Update : Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law as unconstitutiona...
OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert...
Sources: Apple delays the next iPhone Air, originally set for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations and a portion of inventory remains unsold
So It Can Get Better Juli Clover / MacRumors : iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Apple's iPhone Air might already be out of bre...
Microsoft unveils Mico, a new character for Copilot's voice mode that responds with real-time expressions and is enabled by default, available in the US
Today, we're dropping the Copilot Fall Release, a big step forward … Sean Lyndersay / Windows Blog : Meet Copilot Mode in Edge: Your AI browser Microsoft Copilot on YouTube : Copilot Sessions: Fall Up...
OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match employers to candidates with AI skills, and a certification program for teaching AI in the coming months
here's what CEO Sam Altman revealed at the White House tech dinner Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : OpenAI to launch jobs platform linking employers and AI experts Shubhangi Chowdhury / The American ...
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, several owned by companies outside the US, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law
8.5.2025—Florida Sues Czech-Owned Porn Sites—Gimenez, Miami Mayor—Much More... Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Florida cracks down on porn sites over child protection law Stephany Matat / Tallahassee Dem...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features demoed in 2024 using Siri's “V1 architecture” and its work on a V2
and What's Coming Next Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Siri snubbed at Apple's WWDC 2025 as AI takes center stage Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overam...
Apple is unlikely to move iPhone production to the US anytime soon due to a lack of facilities, skilled labor, and established supply chains like Asia's
President Trump's tariffs aim to bring manufacturing … Kara Sherrer / TechRepublic : iPhone Price Could Triple Due to Escalating US-China Tariff War Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post : Apple's supp...