The Eastern Herald’s Technology Desk covers technology companies, consumer electronics, digital products, emerging technologies and major developments shaping the global technology industry.
Google Wallet home keys are rolling out in Google Home Public Preview, enabling NFC door unlocking and hands-free access with compatible Aliro hardware.
Security researcher Ian Carroll found a SQL injection bug in Front Gate Tickets, the Live Nation subsidiary behind Bonnaroo and other major festivals. When a firewall blocked him, he asked Claude for
A vulnerability that lets attackers unmask the real address behind any Hide My Email alias has gone unfixed for more than a year, researchers say. Apple has twice claimed to have patched
Vint Cerf, who co-invented the internet's core protocols, is retiring from Google next week after 21 years. At his own send-off, he warned that AI agents talking to each other in plain
SpaceX reportedly showed investors a phone-like AI device prototype ahead of its IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk called the report ‘utterly false,’ the same two-word denial pattern he
Sony will stop manufacturing physical discs for new PlayStation games starting January 2028, citing a shift to digital sales. The announcement leaves unanswered what becomes of PS5 disc drives and the used-game
Samsung will require non-commercial developers to pay $4.99 a month for SmartThings API access starting in October 2026. The company has not published rate limits, call caps, or a clear definition of
Meta is building a cloud computing business to monetize surplus AI infrastructure, a move that sent its stock surging 8% while hammering shares of CoreWeave and Nebius — two firms that had
A viral Reddit post titled "My Boss Has AI Psychosis" gave a name to a phenomenon surveys now confirm is widespread: managers outsourcing decisions to chatbots and holding employees accountable to the
Netflix began requiring every adult profile on a shared account to link a unique email address on June 15, 2026. The stated benefits are real but limited. The actual data architecture it
KDDI disclosed a June 17 breach of its shared email backend that exposed up to 14.22 million credentials across six Japanese ISPs. The company has not named the vulnerable software or identified
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