Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn
Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn

Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to Prime Day 2026, which begins on 23 June. Check Point Research tracked 6,843 new domains created between December 2025 and…

The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes
The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes

The AI-driven memory shortage has now reached the oldest DRAM standard still in production. DDR2 contract prices rose 55 to 60 percent in the second quarter of 2026, according to Taiwanese market intelligence firm TrendForce, with a further 35 to 40 pe…

A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom
A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom

Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia and the Caucasus, marking the fund-of-funds manager’s first publicly disclosed investment in the region’s startup ecosyste…

Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock
Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock

Robinhood Markets is raising two billion dollars through a sale of convertible senior notes due October 2029, joining a surge of zero-coupon convertible issuance from technology companies betting that investors will accept no interest in exchange for e…

Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung
Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung

Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs across the United States, making the app available on the majority of connected TV devices in the country. Meta announced Monday that the expansion comes alongside several new features, including inter…

Lucid Motors cuts 18% of workforce as new CEO dismantles second production shift
Lucid Motors cuts 18% of workforce as new CEO dismantles second production shift

Lucid Motors is cutting 18 percent of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker laid off 12 percent of its staff. The company said Monday that it has also eliminated the second production shift at its factory in Casa G…

Germany tells Trump: you cannot get to the moon without us
Germany tells Trump: you cannot get to the moon without us

Germany’s space minister has a message for Washington: the dependence runs both ways. In an interview with Politico at the VivaTech trade show in Paris this week, Dorothee Bär said Europe provides “critical key technologies” for American space missions…

Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill
Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill

Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from…

Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued
Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued

For most of the generative-AI era, Getty Images has been the industry’s most determined courtroom opponent, the stock-photo giant that sued the people building image generators rather than licensing to them. On Monday it changed sides, and the market r…

SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding
SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding

SpaceX shares looked poised to fall again as US markets reopened after the long weekend, extending a slide that has already erased much of the euphoria from the largest stock-market debut in history. The stock closed last week around $185, down roughly…