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Intel buys back Apollo's stake in Irish chip plant for $14.2 billion

Intel and Apollo Global Management have reached a definitive agreement under which Intel will reacquire Apollo's 49% stake in a joint venture tied to Fab 34, the advanced semiconductor facility in Leixlip, Ireland, for $14.2 billion. The deal unwinds a partnership formed in 2024 when Apollo invested......

Google warns quantum computers could crack Bitcoin encryption within minutes

Google's Quantum AI team has published a white paper revealing that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography securing Bitcoin and Ethereum may require far fewer quantum computing resources than previously thought — and could theoretically be done fast enough to intercept a transaction before......

Microsoft closes its worst quarter since 2008 amid AI spending fears

Microsoft ended the first quarter of 2026 with its stock down roughly 25%, marking its steepest quarterly decline since the fourth quarter of 2008, when shares fell 27% during the global financial crisis. Although the stock rebounded on Tuesday, the final trading day of the quarter, the recovery did......

Starcloud hits $1.1 billion valuation as AI space infrastructure grows

Starcloud, a startup developing orbital computing infrastructure, has raised $170 million, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion as interest in space-based AI systems accelerates. The funding round, led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, highlights growing investor demand for off-planet data solutions to......

Gurman calls Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone its “most important transformation” ever

Apple is preparing what Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman calls the “most important transformation in iPhone history”: a foldable iPhone expected to be unveiled in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro family, though it may not reach customers for several weeks or even months after launch. In......

Tech CEOs increasingly cite AI to justify mass layoffs

An increasing number of technology executives are using artificial intelligence as a justification for sweeping job cuts, even as their companies report record revenues. In recent weeks, leaders at Google, Amazon, Meta, Pinterest, and Atlassian have announced or signaled workforce reductions, framing......

The Elder Scrolls: Blades shuts down permanently on June 30, Bethesda pulls it from all platforms

Bethesda has announced that The Elder Scrolls: Blades will shut down servers and become permanently unplayable on June 30, 2026. The free‑to‑play dungeon crawler, released in 2020 for iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch, has already been removed from all digital storefronts. Because the game......

Xbox's new CEO personally ended the "This is an Xbox" campaign to rebuild brand identity

Asha Sharma, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, personally decided to end the "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign shortly after taking charge of the company's gaming division, according to a report published this week by The Information. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to media that "Asha......

Sony halts memory card orders as global chip shortage squeezes consumer electronics

Sony Japan announced Friday it is temporarily suspending orders for nearly its entire lineup of SD and CFexpress memory cards, citing a worldwide semiconductor memory shortage that has been pressuring consumer electronics for months. The move makes Sony the first major photography industry company to......

Tesla gains fade amid delivery worries despite Europe rebound

Tesla shares rose 0.8% Wednesday to close at $385.95 after European registration data showed positive growth for the first time in over a year, only to shed those gains Thursday with a 1.4% drop to $380.66 as analysts cut 2026 delivery forecasts. ACEA data revealed February registrations up 11.8% year-over-year......

Rapid7 uncovers Chinese 'dormant cells' in telecom networks

Rapid7 detailed Thursday how a China-linked threat actor, Red Menshen, planted stealthy BPFdoor backdoors in global telecom networks using Linux kernel-level malware. First revealed in 2022, BPFdoor leverages Berkeley Packet Filter technology to passively monitor network packets without opening ports......

Nvidia shares drop amid TurboQuant fears and lawsuit pressure

Nvidia shares fell about 4% Thursday as investors reacted to competitive, legal and regulatory challenges facing the AI chip leader. Google unveiled TurboQuant this week, an algorithm that cuts AI memory use by up to six times and boosts H100 inference speed by eight times without accuracy loss. Set......

IBM quantum computer matches lab data in materials simulation

IBM announced Thursday its quantum computer accurately simulated a real magnetic material's behavior. Results matched neutron scattering experiments from national labs. Researchers once deemed this beyond current quantum hardware. The breakthrough advances quantum computing as a practical tool for......

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