Amid rising consumer electronics prices and sluggish demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to close its operations in the United States and Europe this week, according to a Bloomberg report. The report cited a source as saying that OnePlus closing its stores in the US and Europe is part of a corporate
On Tuesday, Microsoft fixed an all-time high number of security bugs across its product lines, largely due to using AI to help the company and outside researchers discover bugs. Among the vulnerabilities fixed was one for the remastered version of the classic 25-year-old war strategy video game Age of Empires II. According to security researchers,
Neko Health, the health assessment and body scanning startup founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek (pictured above, right) and his co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (above, left), has raised a $700 million Series C. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and OG Venture Partners. This follows the company’s $260 million Series B raised in January 2025.
Reflection AI, a US startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion computing deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will provide Reflection with access to Nvidia’s latest chips. The deal comes just weeks after the startup signed a similar agreement to
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in global telecommunications infrastructure to locate US military personnel in the run-up to the Iran war, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to the Financial Times. The Iranian government leveraged Signaling System 7, or SS7, a set of protocols for 2G and 3G networks
X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to increase the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” — the people they follow and who follow them, product manager Nikita Bier said Monday. “We noticed that this data was missing from the algorithm and caused your friends to appear less in your answers. This resulted in
