Former top national security officials side with Apple in app store antitrust case

Former senior national security officials, including two ex-CIA directors and a past NSA director, are backing Apple's app store practices as the iPhone maker fights a critical antitrust case.

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Samsung will now let Galaxy users repair their own devices

The right-to-repair movement has scored another win.

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Amazon union vote counts are underway for two warehouses

Amazon has gone 27 years without a union in the United States. Now it's about to find out whether workers at two warehouses have voted to unionize.

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Blue Origin launch today: Six people to join supersonic, suborbital space tourism flight

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is slated to launch its fourth space tourism mission today as the company continues its mission to make high-speed flights to the edge of space a mainstay of pop culture.

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China's tech layoffs could become a self-inflicted headache for Xi

China's huge tech sector may be staring at its worst jobs crisis ever.

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Senate votes to advance Alvaro Bedoya's FTC confirmation

One of President Joe Biden's key administrative nominees is a step closer to confirmation after Alvaro Bedoya, Biden's pick for Federal Trade Commissioner, narrowly cleared a key procedural vote in the Senate on Wednesday.

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Facebook advertisers can pursue class action over ad rates

A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday that a lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook of deceiving advertisers about its "potential reach" tool can proceed as a class action.

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Hackers steal over $600 million from video game Axie Infinity's Ronin network

The latest crypto hack has targeted a gaming-focused blockchain network that supports the popular video game Axie Infinity. Hackers made off with about $625 million worth of Ethereum and USDC, two cryptocurrencies, in one of the largest crypto hacks of all time.

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How Europe's bold new rules for Big Tech could change the services you use

Apple users could soon install apps outside the App Store. WhatsApp users could message or video call friends using Telegram, and vice versa. And the search results users see on Google could change, with potentially major repercussions for smaller online businesses.

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Here's who's flying on tomorrow's Blue Origin space launch

Pete Davidson was initially slated to be the next headline-grabbing name to take flight aboard the suborbital space tourism rocket developed by Jeff Bezos' company, Blue Origin, after the commercial space-faring company launched several other famous faces on its previous flights.

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