Apple Just Made Texting Between iPhone and Android Secure

With iOS 26.5, RCS is no longer insecure on the iPhone.

Crew Relaxes Before Busy Week of Science, Dragon Arrival, and Spacewalk Preps

The next cargo mission to resupply the International Space Station, SpaceX CRS-34, is slated for launch at 7:16 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, weather pending.

?? Claude AI Just Moved Into Excel, PowerPoint, and Word!

PLUS: OpenAI Codex now runs natively inside Chrome…

Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon Valley. Contrary to what Big Tech…

Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering

Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting with customer needs and working backward to technology solutions. Not prioritizing the customer can create fragmented solutions; disjointed…

Why Does Your Compliance Strategy Pass Audits But Still Leave You Exposed?

If you have ever walked out of an audit feeling relieved, then uneasy a week later, you are not imagining it. Compliance vs risk management is the gap most teams live in. Your controls can look tidy. Evidence can be complete. Your enterprise compliance effectiveness score can be strong. Yet your real regulatory risk exposure […]

Why Do More Meetings Lead to Fewer Decisions in Enterprise Teams?

More meetings produce fewer decisions when responsibility is spread rather than assigned. When too many people share ownership of a topic, no one truly owns the outcome, leading to meeting inefficiency that becomes a daily operational drag in large organisations. The result is a familiar pattern: decision-making bottlenecks, rising delays in workplace collaboration, and a […]

Is Meta really dying?

The New York Times recently published an opinion piece suggesting that the company is at the beginning of the end, but it’s more complicated than that.

Instagram eyes long-form content on CTV

Tessa Lyons, Instagram’s vice president of product, told audiences at Scalable Summit that short-form videos may not “be enough to succeed on TV,” per ICYMI.

FNaF: Secret of the Mimic Went Flatscreen Before VR Due To Poor Help Wanted 2 Sales

Five Nights At Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic’s VR support was initially put off due to poor sales of Help Wanted 2.

Downtown Club Races Into Full Release Next Month

Simcade VR racer Downtown Club is leaving Early Access and releasing in full on both Quest and Pico on June 11.

The XR Week Peek (2026.05.11): We may know more about Android glasses soon, Valve prepares to ship its hardware, and more!

Today it’s travel day! I’m departing to go to China to be a speaker at the VR AR Expo China in Shanghai and then travel around Southern China to meet interesting people! I’m super-hyped… get ready to read a lot on my blog about my adventures in Asia!  But now, let’s get back to the usual […]

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Meta’s New AI-Powered VR Toolkit Lets Anyone Build WebXR Experiences Without Coding

Meta announced a major update to its open-source Immersive Web SDK (IWSDK) framework, which lets developers build VR experiences on the web using WebXR—now including an “agentic workflow” powered by AI coding assistants which aims to reduce Originally launched at Meta Connect last year, IWSDK aimed to simplify VR development tasks like physics, hand-tracking, movement, […]

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Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain…

One Day in 2030 — Part 10: The Day You Turn It Off

I don’t make the decision suddenly. That would be easier to explain. It happens slowly. Quietly. Like most things in 2030. The Silence Between Prompts The office is almost empty again. The system hums softly around me. Invisible workflows. Silent conversations between agents. Recommendations moving through the building like electricity. My assistant waits beside the […]

You Can Get $35 in Google Store Credit If You Preorder the Fitbit Air

This screen-free fitness tracker from Google is similar to Whoop—but better.

These Are The Best Ways to Rid Your Gmail Inbox of Spam

Banish offenders once and for all.

??Tutorial: How To Cut Claude Code Costs by 50% (Token-Saving Tricks That Actually Work)

PLUS: everything you need + all prompts inside…

Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship have contracted a type of hantavirus, a rare virus transmitted by rats. Three of them have died. As the ship…

The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’ve entered the era of AI malaise AI is spreading everywhere, and it is not going away. But what will it do? What effect will it have on our society? Will…

More details on the new Hue Sports Live

On Wednesday, Philips Hue announced a brand-new feature that will be used for the first time during the upcoming World Cup. During each match, you’ll be able to make your Hue lights in the living room (or any other room in your home) light up in sync with the game. Today, I’d like to share…

Der Beitrag More details on the new Hue Sports Live erschien zuerst auf Hueblog.com.

Your Workplace Hardware Strategy Is Invisible, Until It Quietly Becomes Your Biggest Productivity Risk

It’s starting to feel like a lot of companies are missing some pretty obvious blind spots when they talk about productivity these days. Everyone’s spending all their time arguing about AI tools, office attendance, and workflow automation, while their device estate sits there untouched. It’s the same problem we’ve had for years now, really. Everyone […]

The Visibility Layer: How AI Agents Are Finally Solving the Manager’s Blind Spot

Every week, managers at organisations across the world make consequential decisions based on incomplete, delayed, and quietly unreliable information. AI agents are now targeting this problem directly, and according to Gartner, the infrastructure to do so is arriving fast. The analyst firm predicts that 40% of enterprise applications will feature embedded, task-specific AI agents by […]

Threads adds new posting options and animated mini stickers

The platform will automatically separate longer text blocks into multiple posts and offer a limited release of animated stickers.

Meta announces AI support for SMBs and rural companies

Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief of global affairs, said the initiatives were part of a broader push to help U.S. entrepreneurs use artificial intelligence tools.