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Applied Aerospace & Defense, a Huntsville-based firm, successfully raised $650 million in an IPO that was ten times oversubscribed, pricing shares at $20. The offering underscores a strong investor shift towards defense hardware and solidifies the company's $3.4 billion market valuation. Trading begins Wednesday on the NYSE under AADX.

President Trump has signed an executive order creating a voluntary framework for AI companies to share advanced models with the federal government before release. This initiative aims to bolster secure innovation and protect critical infrastructure, reflecting a shift from the administration's previous hands-off approach to AI safety. Companies opting for pre-release review may receive confidentiality protections.

Quick Verdict: A Much-Anticipated Bridge For years, seamless file sharing between Android and iOS devices has been a frustrating chasm, often requiring clunky workarounds or third-party apps. This month, Google is

Rust Cross-Platform: It's Complicated, But Playable As an experienced tech reviewer, I've seen my share of games attempting cross-platform play with varying degrees of success. When it comes to Rust, the popular and
Learn to disable cloud typing on your Android keyboard (Gboard or Samsung) in minutes to prevent your typing data and personal vocabulary from being shared with remote servers, significantly boosting your privacy.

AI agents are inadvertently causing significant, untracked production incidents by acting without full system context, blurring the lines between autonomous remediation and chaos engineering. Enterprises lack the frameworks to categorize these failures, leading to cascades stemming from narrow agent perspectives. Experts advocate for integrating agent governance with chaos engineering by treating agent actions as experiments and managing a shared “resilience budget” based on live system signals.

Google's new Quick Share QR code feature allows any Android phone to share files with any iPhone, bridging the long-standing cross-platform gap. It's a smooth, cloud-backed solution, though users must share QR codes cautiously.

Palantir Technologies faces a dual challenge: retail investors are selling off shares to rotate into semiconductors, while the German military has formally rejected the company for defense contracts. Despite strong Q1 revenue growth of 85% to $1.63 billion and raised full-year guidance, Palantir's stock is down 20% year-to-date, indicating a failure of its long-standing market narrative.

Have you owned an Android phone in the U.S. since late 2017? You could be eligible for a payment from a recent Google class action lawsuit settlement. Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle a lawsuit alleging
Subnautica 2 finally introduces highly anticipated co-op multiplayer, allowing up to four players to explore Planet 4546B together. Featuring full cross-play between PC and Xbox, players can host or join worlds, even converting solo saves. While all storage lockers are shared at launch (with future plans for private options), data entries, crafting recipes, and vehicles are also communal.

Tech journalist Sheena Vasani shares how replacing broken, neglected lamps with a Govee Uplighter Floor Lamp profoundly impacted her personal space and mental well-being amidst caregiving challenges. The smart lamp, praised for its ease of use and ambient features, offered an unexpected sense of control and calm, inspiring further home improvements despite a minor initial product glitch.

American McGee, developer of Alice: Madness Returns, recently shared a wild story about publisher EA's marketing team wanting the 2011 game to be "more sexy." His creative and hilarious response involved dildos and a snail, effectively shutting down the bizarre request.

The Epic Games Store, nearly a decade old, still struggles to compete with Steam despite its favorable revenue share for developers and weekly free games. Its slow performance, lack of user-centric features, and absent community elements leave it far behind Steam's robust ecosystem, failing to retain users beyond the allure of freebies.

Google has launched a native Gemini AI app for Mac, providing instant, context-aware assistance through a quick shortcut. The app allows users to share screen content and local files for analysis, and supports multimedia generation. This move brings Google into direct competition with other AI providers on the macOS platform.

Sandy Petersen, creator of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG, shares the surprising origin of its iconic Sanity system. During an early playtest, players instinctively acted terrified when confronted with horror, revealing the mechanic's power to make players *feel* dread, not just track it. This accidental discovery profoundly shaped horror gaming forever.

OCSF, an open-source framework, is rapidly standardizing cybersecurity data across vendors, streamlining threat detection and investigation. Its adoption is critical for managing AI's increasing complexities in security operations.
An Xbox 360 development kit for *Grand Theft Auto 4* was reportedly bought for just £5 at a car boot sale in Edinburgh. The incredible find contains an early build of the game, revealing an unfinished Zombies mode that Rockstar ultimately cut. The buyer has shared the contents online, allowing fans to explore this fascinating piece of gaming history.

Samsung is expanding AirDrop compatibility to more Galaxy devices through its Quick Share feature, aiming for seamless cross-platform file sharing. However, user reports indicate significant inconsistencies and bugs, making the feature unreliable for many, despite its potential.

Super Micro is facing a shareholder lawsuit alleging securities fraud due to its undisclosed dependence on illegal AI chip sales to China, which reportedly inflated its stock price. Employee charges related to a sophisticated smuggling operation led to a 33% stock drop, wiping out over $6 billion in investor value.

Learn to enable and use AirDrop on your Samsung Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, or S26 Ultra in simple steps. Share files seamlessly with iPhones.

Dana Lawson, Netlify's CTO, shares insights on building and leading a lean, globally distributed engineering team. Her approach emphasizes a strong written culture, intentional in-person connections, and pragmatic tech choices to power 5% of the internet with only ~50 R&D staff. AI agents play a crucial role in augmenting communication and documentation.

AI-powered customer support startup Decagon has completed its first tender offer, allowing over 300 employees to sell vested shares at a new $4.5 billion valuation. This threefold increase from June highlights rapid growth and investor confidence. The move also serves as a critical strategy to attract and retain top AI talent in a competitive market.

Social media platform X will suspend creators from its revenue-sharing program for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of armed conflict without disclosure. This move, announced by X's head of product Nikita Bier, aims to combat misinformation and ensure authentic information during critical times. Repeat offenses will result in a permanent ban from the program.

Windows 11 is rapidly gaining market share, nearing 75% adoption, largely driven by new hardware and the end of Windows 10 support. Despite its growing presence, users face persistent buggy updates, feel a loss of control due to Microsoft's limitations, and some are even moving to macOS or Linux.

A new investigation reveals the upcoming Trump T1 Phone closely resembles the HTC U24 Pro, strongly suggesting both devices share an undisclosed Original Design Manufacturer (ODM). This link to a mid-range phone from two years ago, which received middling reviews, raises questions about the T1 Phone's potential performance and flagship claims.