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Google’s parent company, Alphabet, says it has earned more than $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time. On its face, that’s a clean headline: “big number got bigger.” But it’s also a useful lens for understanding where modern tech platforms are going next — because you don’t get to $400B just by shipping […]

When Microsoft ships an out-of-band (unscheduled) security update for Office, that’s Microsoft waving a big red flag: this can’t wait for Patch Tuesday. What’s changed in the last few years is not that vulnerabilities exist — Office has been a high-value target for decades — but how quickly sophisticated actors can turn a vendor fix

Valve’s Steam Machine delay is a RAM-crisis story (and it tells you a lot about where PC hardware is headed) Valve’s newly announced “Steam Machine” reboot is, on paper, exactly the kind of product PC gaming has been circling for years: a small living‑room box that behaves like a console, runs SteamOS, and tries to

The US wants a “critical minerals trade zone” to loosen China’s grip — what that really means The gadgets we argue about — phones, laptops, EVs, data centers — are the visible layer of the tech economy. Underneath is a quieter dependency: a long list of minerals and metals that have to be mined, refined,

The United States is trying to rewire one of the least visible but most strategically important parts of the modern economy: the supply chains for “critical minerals” and rare earths. This week, the State Department convened officials from more than 50 countries to discuss a proposed “trade zone” and coordinated policies meant to make it

In a recent court filing, the FBI acknowledged something unusual for modern phone investigations: it had the device in hand, and still couldn’t get in. According to the government’s own declaration, the Bureau’s Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) attempted to extract data from a seized iPhone belonging to a journalist—but the effort stalled because the

Pinterest reportedly fired two engineers after they wrote scripts to identify which coworkers were being removed from internal tools during a layoff — and then shared that list more broadly. On the surface, this is a workplace drama story. Underneath, it’s an unusually clear case study in how modern companies actually run: identity systems as

Senators grill Waymo and Tesla on robotaxi safety — what’s actually at stake A US Senate hearing this week put two very different visions of “self-driving” on the same stage: Waymo’s tightly geofenced robotaxi service and Tesla’s mass-market driver-assistance stack that’s sold (and updated) to hundreds of thousands of owners. Senators pressed both companies on

Walk into most museums and you’ll get the same deal: glass, labels, quiet lighting, and a strong suggestion that you should look — not touch. But human history didn’t happen in a vacuum of odorless air. Temples burned incense, workshops reeked of resins and oils, bodies were prepared with balms that were engineered to preserve

If you’ve spent the last year using AI chatbots as a kind of all-purpose assistant — to draft emails, debug code, compare products, or think through difficult decisions — you’ve probably internalized an unspoken “deal”: you give the model attention and context, and it gives you help. That deal gets more complicated when ads enter