TSMC Tells Customers of a 3% to 6% Wafer Price Increase for 2027
Price increases at the world’s largest chipmaker are communicated quietly, to individual customers, and reported afterward by the supply chain. That is roughly how the latest one became public. According…
Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic’s Board After a 33-Hour Revolt
The reversal took thirty-three hours and twenty minutes. The consolidation that followed took two weeks. On September 25, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees over the company’s Slack that a new…
Kalshi Loses Again as Appeals Court Backs State Gambling Law
The ruling arrived in two parts, and Kalshi lost both of them. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held on September 25 that the…
Zoox Grounds Atlanta Test Fleet After Drivers Report Gas Exposure
In August, safety drivers guiding Zoox’s autonomous test vehicles through the streets of Atlanta began reporting dizziness, vomiting and strange odors inside the modified SUVs. The Amazon-owned robotaxi company has…
Tesla’s Self-Driving System Misreads Speed Limits in Belgium
On a road in Brussels where the limit is 30 kilometers an hour, a Tesla’s dashboard told the driver the limit was 50. The car had seen the sign. It…
Waymo Puts Its Robotaxis Within Reach of Teenagers
Nashville teenager Asher Huffman left a concert recently and did something that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: he opened an app and summoned a car with no driver…
ShinyHunters Claims It Broke Into the FBI
The group behind some of the largest data thefts of the decade says it has a new target. On September 22, the hacking collective ShinyHunters claimed it broke into the…
Microsoft Puts Quantum Hardware Within Washington’s Reach
Microsoft’s quantum ambitions have been described in decades, not quarters. On September 23, the company gave them a street address, opening a quantum research center in Maryland, minutes from Washington,…
Waymo Opens Las Vegas Robotaxi Service as Minneapolis Weighs Limits
A driverless car pulled away from the curb on the Las Vegas Strip this week with no one in the driver’s seat, part of the fleet Waymo is now running…
Tesla Faces Trial Over Racial Harassment at Its Fremont Plant
As the state of California opened its case against Tesla on Tuesday, its lawyers described a factory where, they said, racial slurs were part of the working day. Black employees…
