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Fifth Person Dies in Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak
An unvaccinated Lancaster County resident is the fifth death in a Pennsylvania measles outbreak that has now sickened 943 people since April.
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Walmart Promises Digital Price Tags Wont Mean Surge Pricing
Walmart's CEO says digital shelf labels are for saving staff time, not for charging shoppers more based on income, urgency, or the time of day.
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Jury Hits Apple With $5.7 Billion Patent Verdict
A federal jury ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion in a patent infringement case, and the company says it will appeal.
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Tesla Semi Finally Enters Mass Production, Nine Years Late
Tesla starts building its Semi truck at scale, but the real bottleneck is the charging infrastructure fleets will need to actually use it.
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Tesla Semi Hits Volume Production, Signs Up Big Freight Names
Tesla's electric semi truck is now in volume production, and the company used a factory event to tout a growing roster of freight customers.
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Microsoft Moves PR Team Into Legal and Policy Division
Brad Smith, Microsoft's top lawyer and lobbyist, now oversees communications too, as the company searches for a new comms chief to replace Frank Shaw.
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Toyota Is Turning Its Corolla Into an EV
Toyota is putting its most mainstream, highest-volume nameplate on an EV platform, a bigger signal about its electric ambitions than any concept car.
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One Cut Cable Disrupted Hundreds of US Flights
A construction crew's cut fiber cable knocked out FAA systems, grounding flights at New York's three major airports and beyond.
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Pentagon Undercounted US Iran War Deaths, Report Finds
A new investigation found the Pentagon undercounted US troop deaths from the Iran war by at least four service members.
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One Wiki Operator Alleges Google Is Burying Small Sites
A small wiki operator says Google search is quietly demoting independent sites into a low-visibility jail, a claim Google has not confirmed.
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Amazon-Branded Freighter Overruns Runway in Miami, Kills 5
A cargo jet flying for Amazon overran the runway landing in Miami, hit parked cars, caught fire, and killed five, prompting an FAA investigation.
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Wikimedia Foundation Staff Vote to Unionize With CWA
Wikimedia Foundation employees voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the Communications Workers of America.
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Dutch Central Bank Pulls Gold From US Amid Unrest Fears
The Netherlands is repatriating gold held in the US and Canada, citing fears of geopolitical unrest rather than any specific incident.
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Coroner Confirms Measles Killed Six-Week-Old Pennsylvania Baby
A Pennsylvania coroner confirmed measles caused the death of a six-week-old girl with a rare genetic condition, amid disputes over outbreak fatality counts.
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Chemical Giant BASF Takes Apple to Court Over Face ID
BASF, better known for chemicals than chips, claims iPhone and iPad face authentication infringes patents it owns, and wants Apple to pay in a Texas court.
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Uber Cuts About 3,000 Jobs and Ends Its Remote-Work Era
The ride-hailing giant is cutting roughly 3,000 jobs and telling most remote employees to move back to an office, citing efficiency.
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John Ternus Becomes Apple's New CEO, Succeeding Tim Cook
Tim Cook hands the CEO role to hardware chief John Ternus, with Johny Srouji now chief hardware officer ahead of a September 9th iPhone event.
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Russia's new tank drone shield falls to Ukrainian swarms
Russia's new Arena-M system intercepted some drones near Donetsk, but Ukrainian swarms still destroyed at least seven tanks.
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A Hobby Project Turns Railways Into a Giant Flatbed Scanner
Linecam treats the rail network as a giant flatbed scanner, capturing one continuous strip image per train journey.
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Nine PBS Sues Iron Mountain Over Archive Access
A PBS member station has taken storage giant Iron Mountain to court, claiming it can't get at archival material the company was supposed to protect.
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eBay Settles Journalist Harassment Case for 55.7 Million
eBay and three ex-executives will pay 55.7 million to settle a lawsuit from journalists the company's security team harassed and stalked in 2019.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Hardware Trade Secrets
Apple claims two former employees leaked hardware trade secrets after moving to OpenAI, pulling Jony Ive's io Products into the lawsuit.
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A New .self Domain Wants to Make Self-Hosting Official
The HCCF is proposing a .self top-level domain aimed at giving self-hosters a dedicated corner of the internet's namespace.
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O2 Will Switch Off Its 2G Network Starting 2029
Virgin Media O2 joins EE in planning a 2G shutdown, with IoT devices and smart meters facing the biggest disruption.
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India's Extreme Heat Is Costing It More Than Comfort
When temperatures make outdoor work dangerous, the economic toll compounds faster than standard GDP forecasts account for.
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Google Departure Letter Cites Management's Moral Failures
A departing Google employee's public farewell essay frames the exit as a principled stand against what they call management's ethical drift.
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Drone Boat Pulls Two Apache Crew from the Sea in a Military First
A US Navy uncrewed surface vessel rescued two Army helicopter crew members near the Strait of Hormuz, the first time such a vessel has saved lives at sea.
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Hybrid Meetings Are Leaving Remote Workers Behind
A new survey finds in-room participants routinely forget remote colleagues exist, and aging hardware is only making things worse.
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Amazon Reveals Data Center Water Use Just After Seattle Crackdown
The disclosure, Amazon's first on data center water consumption, follows a one-year moratorium on new data centers enacted in its hometown.
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Amazon Defends Its 2.5 Billion Gallon Water Use
The company disclosed annual data center water consumption of 2.5 billion gallons, then invited you to think about lawn irrigation.
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Mexico's World Cup Stadiums Are Certified Green, but Very Thirsty
FIFA requires 2026 World Cup venues to earn environmental certifications and mandates natural grass, a water-intensive surface the criteria mostly ignore.
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A website puts Scott Pelley's 37,000 minutes on the record
The Pelley Minutes catalogs 37 years of 60 Minutes reporting, arriving just as its namesake accuses CBS of editorial meddling.
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Waymo Buys Apple's Abandoned Self-Driving Test Site for $220M
Waymo acquires 5,500 acres of Arizona proving ground from Apple's shuttered car program, recovering a sliver of the estimated $10 billion Apple spent.
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Apple TV+ Lines Up Zoë Kravitz for an Untitled Film
The actress returns to the platform after The Studio, though Apple has yet to share a title, genre, or release window for the new project.
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Wikipedia Volunteer Editors Weigh Strike After Wikimedia Layoffs
Unpaid editors who actually write Wikipedia are discussing a work-to-rule slowdown after the Wikimedia Foundation cut paid staff.
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Silicon Valley Finds a Business Model at the Enhanced Games
A sporting competition built around performance-enhancing drugs is giving tech's peptide obsession a stage — and possibly a revenue model.
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Steve Yegge Says the Technical Interview Is Finally Over
The longtime Amazon and Google veteran published an essay arguing AI has made the industry's most debated hiring ritual meaningless.
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F1's Long Reliability Streak Ends in 2026
Formula 1 spent years making mechanical retirements an afterthought, but the 2026 regulation overhaul is reversing that trend.
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Care Homes, Hotels Shut in Japan as Expansion Falls Apart
A company’s strategy to expand into Japanese care homes and hotels appears to have collapsed, though details remain scarce.
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Ask.com dies quietly, two decades after Ask Jeeves peaked
The once-dominant search engine that let you type questions in plain English is finally being turned off by parent company IAC.
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Netflix Pushes Narnia Movie to 2027 for Theatrical Push
Netflix is giving Greta Gerwig's Narnia adaptation a theatrical release before streaming — a notable shift for a company that once dismissed cinemas.
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A stranger's photo has been on Snap CEO's Wikipedia page for a week
A tech worker discovered their face mistakenly on Evan Spiegel's Wikipedia page — and neither Wikipedia nor Spiegel seem to care.
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AWS pauses billing after drone strikes damage Middle East data centers
Amazon stopped billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to infrastructure damaged in drone strikes could take months.
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New Claims Emerge About Bitcoin's Mysterious Creator
Two projects say they've identified Satoshi Nakamoto, but the cryptocurrency world has heard this before.
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Nissan abandons plan for US EV factory
The Japanese automaker joins a growing list of carmakers pulling back on electric vehicle investments in the US.
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Gift Guides Aren't News
This Wired article is a product roundup, not news—gift guides lack the 'what changed' and 'why it matters' that define Switchboard stories.
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Netflix Orders The Crown Prequel, Spanning 1901 to 1947
The streaming giant is extending its most expensive original series into nearly five decades of earlier royal history.
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The Chef Who Treats His Kitchen Like a Engineering Lab
Jon Kung’s knife-sharpening and rice-washing advice sounds suspiciously like a tech manifesto.
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Home Depot promo codes surface on tech site, just like every other month
Wired published a roundup of Home Depot discounts, continuing the long tradition of tech publications hosting retail promo code articles.
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Amazon streams three Duke games in first college team deal
Prime Video's three-game deal tests the college sports waters without the massive rights fees of major conferences.