🔐 Chrome will soon change your weak passwords for you — with your royal permission

At Google I/O, the team promised: by the end of 2025, Chrome will auto-update weak or leaked passwords — but only if you say “yes, Chrome, please fix my mess”.
🧠 No more guilt-tripping password warnings. Chrome will do the boring stuff. You? Just tap “approve”.
⏳ Launching by New Year’s, so devs don’t lose their minds.

🎁 Best part? Less hassle, more safety. You're welcome.

🕵️‍♂️ Shenzhen: Where all stolen iPhones go to die (or get a second life)

China’s Feiyang Times Mall, 4th floor, is basically the endgame for stolen, traded-in, or bricked iPhones. It's where your lost device might end up — alive or parted out 📦📱
According to Financial Times, one guy had his iPhone 15 Pro snatched in the US. Tracker showed it hopping from shady repair spots to Hong Kong, and finally Shenzhen. Then came the iMessage: "
«Unlock it or we’ll recycle and leak your data." Yeah, don’t fall for it 🙄
📌 Pro tip: Turn on Stolen Device Protection in Face ID settings. You’ll thank yourself later.

Short kings of tech 👑

Social media’s got a new theory: most tech founders are around 5'7" (170 cm).
Zuck, Brin, Vaynerchuk, Nadella — all clock in at the same height. Even Bezos and Kalanick? Under 5'10".
So hey — tell your shorter friend: height ain't a bug, it's a feature. Just build big.

Johnny Ive just went full cyborg mode 🤖💰

It’s official: OpenAI is acquiring Johnny Ive’s startup io for a mind-blowing $6.5B. That includes 55 ex-Apple engineers and designers, all now working on a sleek, voice-first AI device.
💬 Altman’s already seen a prototype — called it “the most impressive piece of tech I’ve ever seen.”
$5B in stock, the rest in cash — OpenAI’s biggest deal ever. But LoveFrom (Ive’s design firm) stays independent, leading design and creative for OpenAI projects.

Meanwhile, Apple’s sitting there like: “Hey… wasn’t he our guy?” 😬

🥖 Telegram gave up data on 22,000 users — in just 3 months

Telegram handed over user data on 22K people to authorities — and that’s only from Q1 2025. A year ago, it was "just" 5,826.

🥇 The top requester? India with 9,197 cases — no surprise, it’s one of Telegram’s biggest markets. Followed by Germany, France, and the US. A full dataset is now live on GitHub.
Looks like Pavel Durov’s rough trip to the regulators in 2024 is finally paying off... for them.

📿 OpenAI’s first gadget might be… a wearable AI pendant?

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is cooking up a neck-worn AI device — think iPod Shuffle with brains, but no screen. It’ll come with a mic and camera for sensing your surroundings and rely heavily on cloud processing.
💬 No display — just voice, vision, and vibes 📸 Constant connection to the internet needed 🌀 Prototype expected in 2025, mass production in 2027

Bonus theory: the announcement dropped right after Google I/O to steal some thunder. If true, it’s working.

💥 Kraken brings Wall Street to crypto with xStocks

Kraken is launching xStocks — a new service for non-US clients to trade tokenized versions of US stocks (like Apple, Tesla, Nvidia) 24/7 on Solana. Each token = 1 real share held by Backed Finance.
Why it matters: 🔹 Trade even when Wall Street sleeps 🔹 Use stock tokens in DeFi — as collateral, LP, etc 🔹 Dirt-cheap fees, native Solana compatibility
Kraken’s mission? A truly global, non-stop stock market — on-chain.

📍 Wall Street meets DeFi. Let’s go.

🐄 Cows, up and away!
In the Swiss village of Blatten, things got wild — an incoming landslide forced helicopter evacuations… for cows.
Yep, real action-movie vibes: dangling cows airlifted like four-legged VIPs 🚁🐮
When cows are flying and you're still stuck in traffic — something's off, bro. 😅

🧠 NEED THAT BRAIN CHIP TO TRADE WHILE I SLEEP

Gabe Newell (yup, Steam's daddy) just dropped the bomb: his startup Starfish Neuroscience is rolling out a brain chip in 2025.
Officially — to fight Parkinson’s. Unofficially — we’re manifesting a future where it whispers the BTC price directly into your skull 🧬

What makes it 🔥: — Way smaller than Musk’s Neuralink (2×4×0.3mm); — No battery — it powers itself wirelessly; — Less power-hungry than your bathroom light; — Easier to implant than chasing airdrops.
No public tests yet, but the chip’s coming end of 2025. Soon you'll be running DeFi with just your thoughts.