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A US citizen is facing federal charges after his GrapheneOS phone wiped itself during an airport security search. Prosecutors appear to be treating the automatic data wipe as evidence of obstruction, raising serious questions about whether using privacy-focused software can itself be treated as suspicious behavior by law enforcement.
Shifting to the infrastructure world, Foxconn has quietly dropped VMware in favor of a Singaporean hyperconverged upstart called Arcfra for GPU virtualization and remote office workloads. Arcfra only launched in two thousand twenty four, but already landed on Gartner's radar, and winning Foxconn as a client signals real momentum in a market VMware once dominated without much contest.
And finally, New York Magazine sat down with Hans Moravec, the roboticist who decades ago predicted machines would surpass human intelligence. The interview is a reminder that the people who saw this coming earliest often have the most measured things to say now that it is actually arriving, and Moravec's long view is worth sitting with.
That is where things stand tonight. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
