A new Bloomberg report covering IDC data offers a dire outlook for the smartphone market in 2026 due to the current memory chip crisis, but Apple and the iPhone could actually benefit in one key way.
Apple likely to grow iPhone marketshare in 2026 due to shrinking Android production
Källa: 9to5mac
eBay announced that it is cutting about 800 jobs from its global staff. ”We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce,” the retailer said in a statement as reported by Bloomberg. This move will see about 6 percent of eBay’s current full-time workers laid off. Bloomberg noted that eBay would continue hiring in ”key areas” but did not specify what those fields are.
The downsizing follows a week of business updates for eBay. On the same day it shared its latest financial results, the company announced that it would acquire Depop, a consumer-to-consumer secondhand fashion retailer, from Etsy. The Depop purchase carried a $1.2 billion price tag, which could put at least a small dent in the $11.1 billion it reported in 2025 full-year revenue.
Källa: Engadget
Apple TV’s space drama For All Mankind returns next month, but the streamer just revealed that its spinoff—Star City—will premiere soon too. Here are the details.
Star City premieres May 29 as ‘For All Mankind’ spinoff
For All Mankind was part of Apple TV’s very limited launch lineup of programming in November 2019. And it’s about to debut its fifth season.
Right when that new season wraps up though, Apple has a spinoff space drama ready to launch.
Källa: 9to5mac
What happens when AI agents with email access, shell privileges, and their own memory get targeted by twenty researchers for two weeks? An international study catalogs the results.
In an exploratory red-teaming study titled ”Agents of Chaos,” a team of over 30 scientists from Northeastern University, Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and other institutions put autonomous AI systems under targeted pressure. Twenty AI researchers spent two weeks trying to manipulate, trick, and compromise the agents.
The agents—Ash, Doug, Mira, Flux, Quinn, and Jarvis—ran 24/7 on isolated virtual machines with their own ProtonMail accounts. They communicated via Discord, executed shell commands, and could rewrite their own config files.
Källa: The Decoder
Apple almost always gets the better part of any negotiation with its suppliers, but a sketchy report claims that this wasn’t the case when it came to buying RAM from Samsung.
The report says Samsung had asked for a 100% increase in price, expecting to negotiate down to 60%, but Apple’s desperation was such that it agreed to the first demand …
Apple has a reputation as an extremely hard-nosed negotiator when it comes to agreeing contracts with its suppliers. The company typically plays off two or three competing suppliers against each other, offering to give the largest slice of its order to the company that offers the best price.
Källa: 9to5mac
It’s hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life. The organization that shepherds the wireless protocol says that more than 48 billion Wi-Fi-enabled devices have shipped since it debuted in the late 1990s. One estimate pegs the number of individual users at 6 billion, roughly 70 percent of the world’s population.
Despite the dependence and the immeasurable amount of sensitive data flowing through Wi-Fi transmissions, the history of the protocol has been littered with security landmines stemming both from the inherited confidentiality weaknesses of its networking predecessor, Ethernet (it was once possible for anyone on a network to read and modify the traffic sent to anyone else), and the ability for anyone nearby to receive the radio signals Wi-Fi relies on.
Källa: Arstechnica
