A Sydney Startup Sends 350,000 Bots to Waste Scammers’ Time
The voice that answers the phone is patient, a little confused, and happy to read out a card number that does not exist. It asks the caller to repeat himself.…
SK Hynix Weighs Returning $12 Billion of Its Kioxia Winnings
Eight years after SK Hynix committed money to a Japanese memory maker through a fund run by Bain Capital, the Korean company is weighing whether to hand most of the…
Meta Asks Shareholders, and Its Chip Suppliers, for $95 Billion
The unusual part of Meta Platforms’ financing announcement on Monday was not the size of the number. It was the list of intended buyers. The company filed to raise about…
Apple Files for iPhone Duo as Its First Foldable Sells
A trademark application is a thin document to hang a product cycle on. This one arrived with the product. Reports on Oct. 23 said Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone…
Canva Trains Its Own Image Model, Aimed at Layouts Rather Than Photographs
Canva’s users rarely ask for a photograph. They ask for a banner that fits a template, a product shot that matches a brand palette, an illustration that leaves room for…
Arc’s Shutdown Date Turns a Browser Into a Migration Project
Arc arrived with a simple argument: the tab bar was a relic, and a browser should organize work the way people actually think about it. Spaces, profiles, a sidebar, a…
Apple’s Ad Business Gets a Lift From Formula 1
For most of its life Apple’s advertising operation was an afterthought attached to the services division: a search slot in the App Store, a promotional placement on the Music tab,…
TSMC Moves Its Rare-Earth Exposure From the Mine to the Machine
The parts list runs to thousands of items, and until recently almost nobody near the top of the supply chain read it for chemistry. Now a team at Taiwan Semiconductor…
SpaceX in Talks for 80,000 U.S. Ground Sites to Build a Mobile Network
The three national wireless carriers have spent years telling investors that a fourth network in the United States is close to economically impossible. This week the market started pricing the…
Gene-Edited Working Dogs Draw $200 Million and a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The dogs themselves are not the asset yet. The asset is a set of frozen cell lines, drawn from Belgian Malinois and German shepherds, catalogued in a biobank and waiting…
