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A chip industry association has urged the White House not to make major changes to the way the memory market is regulated. The group, SEMI, represents most of the world’s major semiconductor equipment and materials companies as well as chipmakers. Bloomberg reported late Thursday that the association had outlined its concerns about the memory market in a letter to the Trump administration. The document was addressed to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Memory prices have increased sharply over the past year because of surging demand from artificial…

To get the most out of an AI chatbot these days, you have to pay up. The free tiers of the most popular chatbot options are decent, but those looking to take advantage of all the features will be forced to pay a premium. A couple of years ago, the idea of actually paying for AI seemed absurd, but that’s not the case now. A recent CNET survey revealed that US adults pay an average of $111 on subscriptions per month and lose up to $252 annually on unused subscriptions annually, with millennials and Gen Z wasting the most. The AI…

Apple’s “Hide My Email” is leaking real addresses. Since Apple hasn’t fixed the flaw after a year, treat the feature as totally broken and unsafe. Apple sold “Hide My Email” as a digital vault. It promised total anonymity; instead, it delivers a leaky bucket. A critical vulnerability allows anyone to trace your random alias back to your personal email address in minutes. The most damning detail? Apple knew. Security researcher Tyler Murphy reported this flaw to Cupertino in June 2025. And the company still refuses to fix the core exploit over a year later. Apple even falsely claimed a resolution…

TikTok Singapore has laid off employees on Jul 1 as part of a global reorganisation. According to a report from Mothership, a TikTok spokesperson said the changes are meant to strengthen the company’s global operating model for its Trust & Safety team, which oversees content moderation. An affected employee told the publication that around 20 people from their team were impacted. Employees reportedly received an email on the morning of Jul 1, and the office atmosphere was described as “hectic.” TikTok did not disclose the total number of employees affected. The company said it is providing support consistent with local…

Apple is expected to debut the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max this fall, possibly alongside its first foldable iPhone. The standard iPhone 18, however, is said to arrive later in spring 2027 with the iPhone 18e. While the lineup is expected to get more RAM, the upgrade may still fall short of what the standard and 18e models need for two advanced Siri AI features. The issue is Apple’s AFM Core Advanced model. It powers Advanced Dictation Preview in iOS 27, along with Apple’s new expressive Siri voices. The model runs locally on supported devices, but it…

A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang at all. Krishnan found no sign that it ever locked a single machine: no encryptor, no locker, no demand for a decryption key. The threat was simpler. Steal the files, then charge the victim not to publish them. Krishnan does not name…

For our very first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers, Carlos Barragán.Barragán, a journalist and researcher at The New York Times, flew to Lagos to embed himself with a group of young, desperate grifters. The account he brings back is a funny, sad, enraging read about how the internet can fuel heartbreak.On the PanelKate Knibbs: senior writer at WIRED, covering prediction markets, the future of media, and how AI is changing the internet. She also leads WIRED Book Club.Carlos Barragán:…

Xbox at a gamescom briefing in 2014. Microsoft is pressing its games division to turn a profit. (Microsoft Photo) In 2007, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 consoles started dying — overheating until three lights on the front blinked red, a defect gamers came to call the “red ring of death.” Microsoft’s response was to extend the warranty on every machine and take a charge of more than $1 billion to fix the problem, making it one of the costliest product failures in the company’s history. Microsoft could afford it financially, but the bigger factor was strategy. Xbox was a bet on the…

Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a $3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at $30 billion. That’s about three times what Crusoe was worth last year. The report didn’t name the investors that may participate in the new raise, but late-stage rounds often draw contributions from existing backers. Crusoe’s last funding round included the participation of Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Ventures and more than a dozen others. The company has raised a total of $2.77 billion to date. Crusoe builds data centers for major…

Defining Network Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Network Data Loss Prevention (DLP) software monitors, detects, and potentially blocks sensitive data exfiltration while the data is in motion. Network DLP prevents the transfer of critical information outside of a corporate network and is mandated as a compliance requirement in some regulated industries to ensure that measures taken by organizations are able to demonstrate due care in avoiding loss or theft of confidential/sensitive data. What Is Network DLP and How Does It Work? Network DLP solutions are designed to monitor, detect, and prevent unauthorized data transfers across a network. It acts like a digital security scanner, but with more advanced capabilities. Here’s a…