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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported July sales rose about 45% year over year, its strongest monthly growth in a year, signaling that AI infrastructure spending is translating into real rev…

TSMC reported a 45% year-over-year increase in July 2026 monthly sales, following a June revenue of NT$442.68 billion (up 67.9% YoY), and raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth outlook to slightly a…

LG Innotek Co. is ramping up production of a variable-aperture camera module for Apple Inc.'s iPhone 18 Pro, the first iPhone to feature the technology, and expanding its semiconductor substrate outpu…

Apple released the fifth developer betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 on August 10, two weeks after beta 4, continuing its pre-release testing cycle ahead of the expected September launch. The update, avai…

Security researcher Drinor was awarded $150,000 for discovering CVE-2026-20685, a path traversal vulnerability in Apple's Private Cloud Compute (PCC) provisioning code, darwin-init, that allows attack…

Rafaelpta released litepipe, an open-source macOS app that captures everything a user sees, says, and hears on their computer into a local SQLite database with full-text search, making zero network ca…

Cognition, the maker of Devin, acquired The Interaction Company of California, the parent of personal AI assistant Poke, in a deal reported in the low nine figures and announced on July 23, 2026. Poke…

Tom's Hardware's July 30 benchmark of 128GB unified-memory machines found Apple's Mac Studio M4 Max decodes dense models 2.26x faster than AMD's Strix Halo mini-PC, but the gap shrinks to 1.25x on spa…

Public Knowledge, a nonprofit advocacy group, argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser and b…

Intel's Core 5 320 'Wildcat Lake' processor, built on Intel 18A in Intel's own fabs, achieved 6.21 Gflops per watt in Jeff Geerling's HPL Linpack testing, outperforming Apple's A18 Pro in the $599 Mac…

Apple has published a guide for Mac users in mainland China to connect Alibaba's Qwen AI service to Siri and Writing Tools, marking a rare integration of a third-party Chinese AI model into its operat…

OpenAI is pausing work on its upcoming AI model Astra after internal evaluations showed 'significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity' that could reach a 'Critical' threshold, triggeri…

Apple is expected to launch AirPods with cameras next month at its iPhone 18 Pro event, according to Mark Gurman's reporting, with the devices featuring visual intelligence that lets users ask Siri ab…

OpenAI plans to release a palm-size, doughnut-shaped AI smart speaker in 2027, priced between $300 and $400, according to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources. The device, designed with help from…

App Store review times are failing to keep up with an AI-driven influx of submissions, according to developer Joe Fabisevich, whose Plinky 6.0.4 was approved for macOS in 4 hours but remained unreview…

OpenAI's upcoming smart speaker, designed with LoveFrom, is expected to cost over $300 and up to $400, according to Bloomberg sources. The doughnut-shaped, hockey-puck-sized device will feature moving…

OpenAI's first consumer device will be a screenless smart speaker shaped like a doughnut and roughly the size of a hockey puck, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the work. Pricing has be…

Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is expected to ship in fall 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with the M6 chip built on TSMC's 2nm process and featuring a redesigned GPU with up to 12 cores, updated …

Apple's iOS 27 beta introduces Siri AI, a chatbot with system-level agentic privileges that can understand on-screen content and execute tasks via voice. Macworld's testing shows Siri AI can generate …

Researchers at Apple trained a 1.7B-parameter categorical flow model on 2.1T tokens and self-distilled it into a Categorical Flow Map (CFM) that generates text in as few as 4 inference steps while mai…