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Wired is out with a sharp warning ahead of election season — don't use AI chatbots to help you decide how to vote. From factual hallucinations to subtle partisan lean, tools like ChatGPT and Claude consistently fall short when it comes to civic decisions, and researchers say the stakes are simply too high to trust them.
On the hardware side, Apple is heading into the holiday quarter facing what its own executives are calling unprecedented memory cost increases. RAM prices are surging, and according to Reuters, the company's manufacturing bill could climb by thirty-three billion dollars, threatening margins well into two thousand twenty seven. Consumers may eventually feel that pressure at the register.
And regulators in South Korea are getting serious about crypto exposure. The Bank of Korea has sent its first-ever survey to the country's biggest banks, asking how each institution would hold up against a major crypto hack, a sharp price crash, or the collapse of a peer firm. It's a signal that financial watchdogs are no longer treating digital assets as someone else's problem.
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