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Apple claims two former employees leaked hardware trade secrets after moving to OpenAI, pulling Jony Ive's io Products into the lawsuit.
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A New .self Domain Wants to Make Self-Hosting Official
The HCCF is proposing a .self top-level domain aimed at giving self-hosters a dedicated corner of the internet's namespace.
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O2 Will Switch Off Its 2G Network Starting 2029
Virgin Media O2 joins EE in planning a 2G shutdown, with IoT devices and smart meters facing the biggest disruption.
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India's Extreme Heat Is Costing It More Than Comfort
When temperatures make outdoor work dangerous, the economic toll compounds faster than standard GDP forecasts account for.
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Google Departure Letter Cites Management's Moral Failures
A departing Google employee's public farewell essay frames the exit as a principled stand against what they call management's ethical drift.
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Drone Boat Pulls Two Apache Crew from the Sea in a Military First
A US Navy uncrewed surface vessel rescued two Army helicopter crew members near the Strait of Hormuz, the first time such a vessel has saved lives at sea.
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Hybrid Meetings Are Leaving Remote Workers Behind
A new survey finds in-room participants routinely forget remote colleagues exist, and aging hardware is only making things worse.
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Amazon Reveals Data Center Water Use Just After Seattle Crackdown
The disclosure, Amazon's first on data center water consumption, follows a one-year moratorium on new data centers enacted in its hometown.
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Amazon Defends Its 2.5 Billion Gallon Water Use
The company disclosed annual data center water consumption of 2.5 billion gallons, then invited you to think about lawn irrigation.
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Mexico's World Cup Stadiums Are Certified Green, but Very Thirsty
FIFA requires 2026 World Cup venues to earn environmental certifications and mandates natural grass, a water-intensive surface the criteria mostly ignore.
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A website puts Scott Pelley's 37,000 minutes on the record
The Pelley Minutes catalogs 37 years of 60 Minutes reporting, arriving just as its namesake accuses CBS of editorial meddling.
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Waymo Buys Apple's Abandoned Self-Driving Test Site for $220M
Waymo acquires 5,500 acres of Arizona proving ground from Apple's shuttered car program, recovering a sliver of the estimated $10 billion Apple spent.
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Apple TV+ Lines Up Zoë Kravitz for an Untitled Film
The actress returns to the platform after The Studio, though Apple has yet to share a title, genre, or release window for the new project.
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Wikipedia Volunteer Editors Weigh Strike After Wikimedia Layoffs
Unpaid editors who actually write Wikipedia are discussing a work-to-rule slowdown after the Wikimedia Foundation cut paid staff.
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Silicon Valley Finds a Business Model at the Enhanced Games
A sporting competition built around performance-enhancing drugs is giving tech's peptide obsession a stage — and possibly a revenue model.
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Steve Yegge Says the Technical Interview Is Finally Over
The longtime Amazon and Google veteran published an essay arguing AI has made the industry's most debated hiring ritual meaningless.
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F1's Long Reliability Streak Ends in 2026
Formula 1 spent years making mechanical retirements an afterthought, but the 2026 regulation overhaul is reversing that trend.
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Care Homes, Hotels Shut in Japan as Expansion Falls Apart
A company’s strategy to expand into Japanese care homes and hotels appears to have collapsed, though details remain scarce.
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Ask.com dies quietly, two decades after Ask Jeeves peaked
The once-dominant search engine that let you type questions in plain English is finally being turned off by parent company IAC.
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Netflix Pushes Narnia Movie to 2027 for Theatrical Push
Netflix is giving Greta Gerwig's Narnia adaptation a theatrical release before streaming — a notable shift for a company that once dismissed cinemas.
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A stranger's photo has been on Snap CEO's Wikipedia page for a week
A tech worker discovered their face mistakenly on Evan Spiegel's Wikipedia page — and neither Wikipedia nor Spiegel seem to care.
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AWS pauses billing after drone strikes damage Middle East data centers
Amazon stopped billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to infrastructure damaged in drone strikes could take months.
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New Claims Emerge About Bitcoin's Mysterious Creator
Two projects say they've identified Satoshi Nakamoto, but the cryptocurrency world has heard this before.
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Nissan abandons plan for US EV factory
The Japanese automaker joins a growing list of carmakers pulling back on electric vehicle investments in the US.
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Gift Guides Aren't News
This Wired article is a product roundup, not news—gift guides lack the 'what changed' and 'why it matters' that define Switchboard stories.
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Netflix Orders The Crown Prequel, Spanning 1901 to 1947
The streaming giant is extending its most expensive original series into nearly five decades of earlier royal history.
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The Chef Who Treats His Kitchen Like a Engineering Lab
Jon Kung’s knife-sharpening and rice-washing advice sounds suspiciously like a tech manifesto.
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Home Depot promo codes surface on tech site, just like every other month
Wired published a roundup of Home Depot discounts, continuing the long tradition of tech publications hosting retail promo code articles.
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Amazon streams three Duke games in first college team deal
Prime Video's three-game deal tests the college sports waters without the massive rights fees of major conferences.