Americas News
SpaceX is poised for blastoff with an IPO likely to break records
- Business
- John Ruwitch
- Jun 11, 2026
- US
Elon Musk's rocket company, recently merged with xAI, is aiming to raise $75 billion in its initial public stock offering. It's the first of a trio of mega-IPOs from AI companies expected this year.
Ryanair is under investigation over charging parents to sit with their kids
- Technology
- Jess Weatherbed
- Jun 11, 2026
European economy airline Ryanair is under investigation in the UK for charging parents mandatory fees to sit with their children. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was looking into w...
Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services
- Technology
- Terrence O’Brien
- Jun 11, 2026
Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start labeling AI-generated music. It even offered...
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Jun 11, 2026
Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" sometime this year, according to head of p...
Framework delays its first Laptop 13 Pro shipments by a month
- Technology
- Antonio G. Di Benedetto
- Jun 10, 2026
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is delayed. The new 13-inch Framework flagship was set to launch in June, but shipments from the first batch are now expected in July - and there's still a chance some ship...
FBI seizing evidence at California plant where chemical tank overheated
- Business
- The Associated Press
- Jun 10, 2026
- US
Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authoriti...
Apple’s new Siri AI knows when to shut up
- Technology
- Jay Peters
- Jun 10, 2026
Apple's new Siri AI is finally here, and so far, it seems like it works. I have access and have been messing around with it, and my biggest impression so far is that Siri AI is quite curt - which I me...
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
- Technology
- Sean Hollister
- Jun 10, 2026
Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strangers. The passport of a young woman from Germany. The passport of a man from Spain...
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
- Technology
- Tom Warren
- Jun 10, 2026
Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's plans. The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks, wit...
Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4
- Technology
- Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
- Jun 10, 2026
Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to5 Google, the latest spec has arrived on compatible Apple TVs in the tvOS 27 dev...
Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets
- Technology
- Stevie Bonifield
- Jun 10, 2026
The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything from military operations to Google Search data continue to stack up. As CoinDesk re...
Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
- Technology
- Robert Hart
- Jun 10, 2026
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biolo...