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From December 22 through to noon on December 24, 2025, Apple is offering free two-hour delivery from its retail stores for qualifying devices, and in certain areas.

A new variant of the MacSync Stealer uses a code-signed Swift application to get around Apple's macOS Gatekeeper protections.

Apple is making it a little easier to use third-party devices with iPhones in order to comply with Europe's Digital Market Act (DMA).

Apple is going to allow iPhone users in Brazil to pay for apps and services outside of the App Store itself, all to settle an investigation into supposed anti-competitive practices in the country.

This could come in handy if you’re in Australia. Australia has granted approval for Apple to enable its Apple Watch hypertension notification feature within the…

"It's all fixed," says that Apple developer who was locked out of his Apple Account after redeeming a compromised Apple Gift Card. "A lovely man from Singapore, working for Apple Executive Relations, who has been calling me every so often for a couple of days, has let me know it's all fixed. It lo...

Lawyers for Apple, Google, and Microsoft have reportedly told staff to stay in the US, if they require a visa stamp to re-enter the country.

Online privacy protections could be demolished, advocates warn

Nvidia has told Chinese clients it aims to start shipping its second-most powerful AI chips to China before the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Italian antitrust agency says Apple abuses its dominant market position with the App Store and has fined it $115 million having apparently misunderstood App Tracking Transparency.

Mozilla is working on an AI kill switch for the Firefox open-source web browser to let users completely disable all AI features.

For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.

We’ve noted how Larry Ellison, as part of his attempt to control the entirety of media, had launched a $108 million hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers. Larry, as we’ve seen with C…

The bill, which lawmakers passed in June, will be modified to more closely match a similar law in California, at Big Tech’s urging.

2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

Technology influencer Lamarr Wilson has died at age 48. The content creator made his name reviewing and discussing the biggest tech brands and gadgets on the market.

An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

Online education platform Coursera said on Wednesday it would buy rival Udemy in an all-stock deal, valuing the combined company at $2.5 billion, as the industry consolidates after a post-pandemic slowdown and heightened investor scrutiny.

The world's highest-profile and most-watched awards show, which has aired on ABC since 1976, will be moving to a streaming-only platform starting as part of a deal that also includes red carpet coverage, the Oscar nominations announcement, the Governors Awards and more.

The new ChatGPT Images is powered by our flagship image generation model, delivering more precise edits, consistent details, and image generation up to 4× faster. The upgraded model is rolling out to all ChatGPT users today and is also available in the API as GPT-Image-1.5.

Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

MCS Cruises bans smart glasses in public spaces

The Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year In Review features interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet Worldwide throughout 2025.

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A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to minimize "revenue impact" caused by cracking down on the scams.

Some of the recruits to government service will be on leaves of absence from private sector companies while working for government — a setup that raises ethical questions about conflicts of interest.

In a lawsuit challenging an Australian law barring children under 16 from having social media accounts, Reddit argues it's not a social media company.

Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls