Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds
Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds

Nearly six out of every ten videos TikTok serves to a brand-new account are AI-generated junk. That is the central finding of a report published by video editing platform Kapwing, which analysed 10,742 TikTok videos across 20 popular categories and sep…

Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony Ive-era designer. Incoming CEO John Ternus says he’ll fix it.
Apple’s design studio has lost nearly every Jony Ive-era designer. Incoming CEO John Ternus says he’ll fix it.

Apple’s industrial design studio, once the most influential product design operation in the technology industry, has been gutted. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the team no longer has a true seat at the executive table, has less influence and cre…

Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions
Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Windows. KB5094126, released on June 9, patched a record 208 security vulnerabilities, but the update has introduced a string of bugs that range from cosme…

New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason
New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason

Waymo delivers more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 10 US cities, raised $16 billion in February, and is expanding internationally to Tokyo and London. It cannot operate in New York City. The reason is not technical, it is political. As the New…

Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones
Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least seven states. The Civil Defense Alert platform was taken …

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule

Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule in western France. He was 69. Guillemot and a flight instructor from Rennes were both killed when their twin-engine Cessn…

Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites
Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites

Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin that exposes API keys, OAuth tokens, and detailed system configuration data to anyone who sends a single unauthenticated HTTP request. Wordfence, the WordPress secur…

Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside
Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside

Companies that pushed hardest to adopt generative AI are now contending with a problem the technology was supposed to prevent: their work is getting worse. Two articles published by Harvard Business Review this month describe a feedback loop in which A…

Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor
Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phrases, and routes all stolen data through a portable To…

AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test
AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test

Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor averaged 1.67% error compared to a medical-grade Polar H10 chest strap in testing by CNET Labs, making the earbuds the second most accurate consumer heart rate device the publication has measured. Only the Apple …