Most of us blow an unexpected windfall on something sensible, like a slightly nicer couch. SpaceX got its windfall on a Monday and had spent $60 billion of it by Friday. The ink on the IPO prospectus wasn't just wet — it was still actively …

Tell an engineer they can't have the fancy new tools, and they'll either give up or get dangerously creative. Huawei, it seems, chose violence. Locked out of the cutting-edge machines that print the world's best chips, the company decided t…

Here's a plot twist nobody saw coming: the AI boom might make your phone more expensive without adding a single chatbot to it. The culprit isn't Siri — it's the memory chips inside, which data centers are now hoarding like the last rolls of…

Quantum computers powerful enough to crack today's encryption don't quite exist yet. But the encrypted secrets you send today? Someone could be hoarding them, waiting. It's called "harvest now, decrypt later," and one startup just convinced…

You know that pop-up screaming "Your browser is dangerously out of date! Update now!"? For nearly a decade, clicking it was a great way to hand criminals the keys to your machine. This week, law enforcement finally clicked "decline" on the …

For years, the joke was that SpaceX could do anything except ship software without a launch delay. Well, the rocket company just bought itself a very expensive shortcut. Turns out the fastest way to close the AI gap isn't training a model f…

For decades, Xcode was Apple's IDE — one product, one ecosystem, one extremely long compile time. At WWDC 2026, Apple essentially conceded that building the next generation of software requires calling in reinforcements from Anthropic, Goog…

OpenAI's old memory system worked like a notebook you had to write in yourself. Dreaming V3 works like a roommate who reads your journal while you sleep, learns everything about you, and promises to only use it to be more helpful. Totally n…

Every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft drops its security patches and IT departments everywhere reach for a strong beverage. In June 2026, they needed an IV drip. 200 Vulnerabilities. In One Day. A New Record. Microsoft's June 2026 P…

Elon Musk has spent years telling anyone who would listen that SpaceX would be worth trillions someday. Last Friday, Wall Street officially agreed — and wrote a $75 billion check to prove it. Rockets, Records, and a 19% First-Day Pop Space…