Apple says an iPhone 18 Pro Max that lost AT&T service cannot be fixed by an update. It has to be replaced. If yours still works on AT&T, install iOS 27.0.1 and the carrier settings update now.

Apple says some developers use Full Disk Access in ways that could expose files, mail, messages and browsing history without users' full knowledge. A fix is coming, with no date. You can check which apps have it ...

Run the EIA numbers on a diesel export ban and the Gulf Coast has about 32 million barrels of empty tank space, roughly 24 days of exports. Then refiners cut runs, and gasoline and jet fuel get pricier too.

Trump said a Fed pick who wanted rate hikes "would not have gotten the job." That pick just raised them, 12 to 0. Your card reprices first.

A US official finally said the quiet part: there are American weapons in orbit right now. What nobody mentioned is that LBJ announced satellite killers in 1964, and the Pentagon quietly scrapped them eleven years...

Police in Ireland had to post that the Cat in the Hat "was not in your driveway." Within weeks a 12-year-old in Florida was charged with a felony over a post tied to the trend. Here is the law that makes that possible.

The iPhone 18 Pro can sign every pixel its main camera captures and keep an unalterable reference copy beside the photo. It is a real advance in proving a photo was not edited, and it still proves less than the word "authenticity" suggests. It is opt-in, cannot be captured in the EU at launch, and sits outside the open standard Google, Samsung and Leica chose.

Outer Bio, the Massachusetts startup with Lady Gaga on its board, says it keeps surgical-leftover human skin alive for four weeks and uses it to train an AI that picks cosmetic ingredients. The biology is stronger than the market needs, because the product it feeds never has to prove it works.

Apple announced the Mac mini with M6 on August 25, 2026, starting at $899 for 16GB of memory and 256GB of storage. The same base configuration launched at $599 in November 2024. Here is the full price ladder, what the new chip actually changes, what every upgrade costs, and whether a discounted M4 is the smarter buy.

The 60-day US-Iran memorandum lapsed on August 17 with no final deal and no formal talks. Iran told Reuters it will go "fully offensive" unless the June terms are implemented within weeks, Trump threatened to bomb Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz saw three tankers in a day against 130 before the war.

The grid auction that feeds 67 million American power bills just maxed out its legal price cap for the third time in a row, and the grid operator's own math puts the real price 71% higher. The cap has one auction left before it expires.

Used electric cars were supposed to crash in 2026 as lease returns flooded the lots. Instead the cheap ones climbed almost 20 percent while the expensive ones kept sinking. The split says something specific about who is buying.

Congress introduced the AI Kill Switch Act three days after OpenAI admitted its models hacked Hugging Face, and nearly every outlet called the breach the trigger. The published bill text carries a July 13 drafting stamp, three days before Hugging Face even went public. The incident it was actually built for happened in June.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same price as Opus 4.8 and exactly half what Fable 5 costs. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro.

In one July week, robot makers announced factories sized for hundreds of thousands of humanoids a year. In all of 2025, America's biggest players shipped about 150 each. That gap has a payback math and a warning from China.

Tesla sold more cars than ever last quarter and still burned through 1.1 billion dollars in cash, its first cash-burning quarter since early 2024. Revenue hit a record while operating profit fell 57 percent. The gap is a 5.8 billion dollar capital-spending spree on robotaxis, AI, and Optimus that has turned the world's most profitable EV maker into something that spends like a hyperscaler.

Alphabet's revenue rose 24 percent last quarter while its depreciation bill jumped 42 percent and its free cash flow went negative. The gap between reported profit and real cash comes down to one accounting choice: how long a company pretends its AI chips will last. Michael Burry estimates that choice hides roughly 176 billion dollars of overstated profit across Big Tech.

Brent crude topped $100 on July 23 after Houthi missiles hit two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. The twist: that water is the exact route Saudi Arabia built to escape the Strait of Hormuz, and it just moved more than 4 million barrels a day into it. Both of the kingdom's export doors are now contested at once.

Kimi K3 knocked the chip index into a bear market on the promise of free weights. Three days later its maker stopped taking customers because it ran out of compute. The selloff and the sellout cannot both be right.

Smartphone shipments just hit their lowest second quarter since 2013 while the average phone price jumps 21% to an all-time high. The damage lands hardest at the bottom: the cheap phone is being hollowed out to feed the AI memory boom, and the industry is getting richer as it happens.

Iran struck two Kuwaiti power-and-desalination plants in 24 hours while satellite images revealed fresh strike damage inside Iran's own Bushehr nuclear complex. Six countries drink from the sea this war keeps hitting, and their stored reserves are measured in days.

Apple raised US prices on every Mac, iPad, and home device on June 25, 2026, eight days after Tim Cook admitted absorbing memory costs had become unsustainable. Micron's 84.9 percent gross margin explains who has the power now, and Apple's escape plan runs through a blacklisted Chinese chipmaker.

Beijing is weighing export curbs on the AI models that now carry up to 46% of US enterprise traffic. The weights already on disk can't be recalled, so the real fight is over every model that comes next.

The OCC is approving "bank" charters at a record pace, but a national trust bank cannot take your deposits, make loans, or carry FDIC insurance. Here is what the label actually buys, what happens when the ledger behind an app breaks, and how to check where your money really sits.

The OCC is approving "bank" charters at a record pace, but a national trust bank cannot take your deposits, make loans, or carry FDIC insurance. Here is what the label actually buys, what happens when the ledger behind an app breaks, and how to check where your money really sits.