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Ahead of Apple's expected September 9 unveiling of its first foldable iPhone, research firm IDC forecasts the device will ship more than 10 million units within its debut year despite a rumored price around $2,500. The estimate aligns with a separate Counterpoint Research forecast projecting Apple will capture 25% of foldable smartphone shipments in 2026, as Samsung's share slips from 40% to 32%.
Nvidia reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $59.69 billion, or $2.46 per share, for the May-July period, exceeding Wall Street forecasts. The results were driven by continued strong sales of the company's high-end AI chips, which remain central to the ongoing buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
CrowdStrike beat Wall Street expectations for its fiscal second quarter, posting adjusted earnings of 31 cents per share and revenue of $1.47 billion, up 26% year over year. Annual recurring revenue climbed 25% to $5.84 billion, and the company swung to net income of $5.3 million from a loss a year earlier. Shares rose more than 11% in after-hours trading following the results and raised guidance.
Meta reached a proposed settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general over lawsuits alleging harm to young users, avoiding a federal trial in Northern California. The deal, approved by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, includes payments of up to $16.7 billion over a decade and new teen-focused features like forced time limits, notification blocks, and a chronological feed option.
Salesforce and Anthropic expanded their partnership by unveiling Claudeforce, a plugin embedding 37 pre-built sales skills directly into Anthropic's Claude chatbot, letting users draft emails, update records and perform other CRM tasks. It's the first time Salesforce has attached its 'force' branding to another company's product, with more integrations across Claude, Salesforce and Slack planned. The news came alongside Salesforce's fiscal second-quarter earnings, which beat Wall Street estimates.
Ring has introduced a new encryption system that deletes the company's copy of users' video decryption keys after 24 hours. This means that once that window closes, Ring itself no longer holds the keys needed to decrypt footage, restricting what it can hand over in response to law enforcement requests.
Multiple Pixel users are reporting on Reddit that apps like Google Photos, Spotify, and CapCut are randomly crashing or refusing to stay open, while music apps skip tracks. Reports span devices including the Pixel 9 and Pixel 11, suggesting the issue isn't limited to newer hardware. One user says joining Google's System Services beta and updating resolved the crashes on their device.
A new analysis pushes back on fears of AI-driven obsolescence, arguing that structural bottlenecks will keep humans central to research and development. It frames AI primarily as an augmentation tool rather than a replacement, predicting that human effort will move away from routine technical execution toward tasks that resist easy verification.
A new industry analysis argues that as AI coding agents rapidly improve and handle longer tasks asynchronously, the traditional sequential product development pipeline—idea, product, design, engineering, QA, production—is being restructured. Implementation, once the dominant time cost in this pipeline, is shrinking, shifting the bottleneck to verification and simulation instead.
A homeowner had an electrician install a dedicated 20A floor outlet, specifically for powering multiple raclette machines during gatherings, while the house was still under construction and wiring was accessible. The outlet was even labeled with a cheese icon on the official electrical diagram, filed alongside other living room circuits. A neighbor liked the idea so much he installed one too, but had to break three tiles since his home was already finished.
Apple's Mac mini lineup includes both the newer M6 chip and the older M5 Pro, but the M5 Pro model is priced higher because it targets a different performance tier. The M5 Pro offers more CPU and GPU cores, higher RAM ceilings up to 64GB, and storage options up to 8TB, compared to the M6's maximum 12-core CPU, 32GB RAM, and 2TB storage.
A scan of 623 European software vendor domains found that only 118 (24%) published a valid security.txt file with a working contact address, while 374 (76%) had none, according to a survey using RFC 9116 criteria. The check comes weeks before the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Article 14 takes effect, imposing a 24-hour reporting window once a vendor learns of an actively exploited vulnerability.