<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Apps & Smartphones - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Apps & Smartphones news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:39:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[A UK MP’s lawsuit could decide whether xAI answers for what Grok makes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The case turns on a question of authorship. When a user types a prompt and Grok returns a sexualised image of a real woman, who made it, the person at the keyboard or the company that built the machine? On 3 June, Labour MP Jess Asato filed a claim at the High Court in England [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-uk-mps-lawsuit-could-decide-whether-xai-answers-for-what-grok-makes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-uk-mps-lawsuit-could-decide-whether-xai-answers-for-what-grok-makes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta accuses Australia of breaching trade pact over news bargaining tax]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meta has reached for a bigger weapon. The company accused the Australian government of breaching the US-Australia free trade agreement with its proposed News Bargaining Incentive, and pointed Washington towards the &ldquo;trade action&rdquo; it has taken against other countries that taxed American technology firms. The dispute over paying for news, now in its fifth year, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-accuses-australia-of-breaching-trade-pact-over-news-bargaining-tax/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-accuses-australia-of-breaching-trade-pact-over-news-bargaining-tax/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foxconn and Intel join SambaNova to build rackscale AI infrastructure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most consequential line in Intel&rsquo;s Computex announcement was not about a chip. It was about a ratio. As AI workloads move from training to inference, the company argued, the long-standing arrangement of four GPUs to every CPU collapses towards something closer to one to one, and the processor Intel actually sells well moves back [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foxconn-and-intel-join-sambanova-to-build-rackscale-ai-infrastructure/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/foxconn-and-intel-join-sambanova-to-build-rackscale-ai-infrastructure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix turns to generative AI to fix a problem it helped create]]></title><description><![CDATA[The streaming service that taught a generation to scroll endlessly now wants to sell them the cure. At the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Netflix&rsquo;s chief product and technology officer, Elizabeth Stone, said the company is deploying generative AI to help subscribers cut through the volume of content it has spent two [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-turns-to-generative-ai-to-fix-a-problem-it-helped-create/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/netflix-turns-to-generative-ai-to-fix-a-problem-it-helped-create/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, one question in Microsoft&rsquo;s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a &ldquo;good deal at Microsoft,&rdquo; defined as &ldquo;a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.&rdquo; When the scores dropped low enough, the company&nbsp;responded with significant [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-dropped-the-one-survey-question-its-employees-actually-cared-about/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/microsoft-dropped-the-one-survey-question-its-employees-actually-cared-about/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alphabet just raised $85 billion for AI, smashing the largest equity offering in history]]></title><description><![CDATA[The public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion.&nbsp;Alphabet&rsquo;s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equity offering of any kind, in any industry, ever. The company had initially planned to [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-just-raised-85-billion-for-ai-smashing-the-largest-equity-offering-in-history/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/alphabet-just-raised-85-billion-for-ai-smashing-the-largest-equity-offering-in-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did]]></title><description><![CDATA[No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap.&nbsp;Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts&nbsp;over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta&rsquo;s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else&rsquo;s account. The bot complied without verifying the requester&rsquo;s identity, and the attacker then reset the password and locked out the [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-asked-metas-ai-chatbot-to-hand-over-instagram-accounts-and-it-did/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/hackers-asked-metas-ai-chatbot-to-hand-over-instagram-accounts-and-it-did/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month]]></title><description><![CDATA[The npm package looked legitimate. It had an active GitHub repository, steady development history, and roughly 29,000 weekly downloads. For developers using&nbsp;OpenAI Codex, it offered exactly what it advertised: a remote web UI for the AI coding tool. But for the past month, every invocation of codexui-android has also been silently reading the contents of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-popular-openai-codex-tool-with-29000-weekly-downloads-has-been-quietly-stealing-developer-tokens-for-a-month/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/a-popular-openai-codex-tool-with-29000-weekly-downloads-has-been-quietly-stealing-developer-tokens-for-a-month/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities, and culture. The cuts, many targeting senior roles, represent less than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-cuts-nearly-a-quarter-of-its-hr-division-as-new-president-reshapes-the-company-from-the-inside/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/uber-cuts-nearly-a-quarter-of-its-hr-division-as-new-president-reshapes-the-company-from-the-inside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta spent $400 million and fought the US government to buy a VR fitness app, then let its creators take it back]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2023, Meta fought an&nbsp;eight-month antitrust battle&nbsp;with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around&nbsp;$400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testified in court to get it done. Less than three years later, Meta is handing it back. The company announced [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-spent-400-million-and-fought-the-us-government-to-buy-a-vr-fitness-app-then-let-its-creators-take-it-back/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/meta-spent-400-million-and-fought-the-us-government-to-buy-a-vr-fitness-app-then-let-its-creators-take-it-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as&nbsp;GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted a bargain. In exchange for a lightweight coding environment, GitHub silently passes an OAuth token to the session, one that grants read and write access to every repository the user [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/one-click-on-githubdev-is-all-it-takes-to-hand-over-your-private-repositories/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/one-click-on-githubdev-is-all-it-takes-to-hand-over-your-private-repositories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic picks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, with a SpaceX computing deal worth $1.25 billion per month buried in the fine print]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal,&nbsp;Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing confidentially for a listing on Monday. More banks could be added to the lineup, and details of [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-picks-morgan-stanley-and-goldman-sachs-to-lead-its-ipo-with-a-spacex-computing-deal-worth-125-billion-per-month-buried-in-the-fine-print/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/anthropic-picks-morgan-stanley-and-goldman-sachs-to-lead-its-ipo-with-a-spacex-computing-deal-worth-125-billion-per-month-buried-in-the-fine-print/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors straining European power grids. The Commission simultaneously published a Data Centre Energy Efficiency Package on 3 June that introduces a [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-asking-households-to-cut-electricity-use-during-peak-hours-because-ai-data-centres-are-straining-the-grid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/the-eu-is-asking-households-to-cut-electricity-use-during-peak-hours-because-ai-data-centres-are-straining-the-grid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applications can introduce&nbsp;unfamiliar attack surfaces, unpredictable behavior, and new ways for attackers to manipulate inputs, access data, or chain weaknesses across [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/virtual-barbarians-at-the-gate-securing-the-ai-blind-spot/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/virtual-barbarians-at-the-gate-securing-the-ai-blind-spot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Commission&rsquo;s &lsquo;AI continent&rsquo; rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty package on Wednesday, a bundle of four measures meant to loosen the bloc&rsquo;s dependence on American and Asian technology across semiconductors, [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tech-sovereignty-package-chip-emergency-powers-and-curbs-on-us-cloud/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/eu-tech-sovereignty-package-chip-emergency-powers-and-curbs-on-us-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using a Galaxy S26 Ultra to vlog and edit an entire day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using a Galaxy S26 Ultra to vlog and edit an entire day]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/using-a-galaxy-s26-ultra-to-vlog-and-edit-an-entire-day/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/using-a-galaxy-s26-ultra-to-vlog-and-edit-an-entire-day/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tata licenses a Chinese EV platform to rescue its stalled premium push]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s biggest electric carmaker will build its delayed Avinya models on a Chery platform, the latest Indian firm to borrow Chinese tech while avoiding a Chinese partner. Tata Motors has a premium electric-vehicle problem and a Chinese solution to it. India&rsquo;s largest EV maker plans to license a vehicle platform from China&rsquo;s Chery to get [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-licenses-a-chinese-ev-platform-to-rescue-its-stalled-premium-push/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/tata-licenses-a-chinese-ev-platform-to-rescue-its-stalled-premium-push/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is saving workers hours a week. Most of it is being thrown away]]></title><description><![CDATA[The promise of workplace AI was always time: hours handed back to employees buried in routine work. A new study suggests the hours are real and that most companies are quietly losing them again. According to research from Workday, surveying 3,200 business leaders, 85% of employees now save between one and seven hours a week [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-saving-workers-hours-a-week-most-of-it-is-being-thrown-away/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/ai-is-saving-workers-hours-a-week-most-of-it-is-being-thrown-away/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suno raises at a $5.4bn valuation, more than doubling its worth in six months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eighteen months ago Suno was the AI company the music industry wanted to destroy. Every major record label had sued it, accusing it of training its models on copyrighted songs without permission. Now the labels are its partners, and investors have repriced the company accordingly. Suno has raised new capital at a $5.4bn valuation,&nbsp;more than [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/suno-raises-at-a-54bn-valuation-more-than-doubling-its-worth-in-six-months/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/suno-raises-at-a-54bn-valuation-more-than-doubling-its-worth-in-six-months/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Swedish app-builder, processing a million new projects a week, is making Google Cloud a primary partner, with Gemini models and a security layer aimed at corporate buyers. The pitch behind Lovable has always been that anyone can build software by chatting with an AI. The harder pitch, the one that turns a viral tool [&hellip;]<br />
This story continues at The Next Web]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-makes-google-cloud-a-primary-partner-to-win-over-corporate-buyers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/apps-and-smartphones/lovable-makes-google-cloud-a-primary-partner-to-win-over-corporate-buyers/</guid></item></channel></rss>