Amazon is set to fire 370 people at its European headquarters in Luxembourg in the coming weeks, as Bloomberg reports. That accounts for about 8.5 percent of the workforce. Amazon initially planned to reduce its headcount there by 470, but under European Union law, companies have to negotiate layoffs with employee reps and, in some cases, governments.
Källa: Amazon is set to lay off 370 workers at its European HQ
A popular browser extension that acts as a VPN to protect users’ privacy is actually harvesting and facilitating the sale of data from conversations with AI chatbot assistants.
Researchers at Koi Security have discovered that Urban VPN Proxy, a Chrome and Edge extension with a 4.7 rating on the Google Web Store, has been collecting data from eight popular AI chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), and Meta AI, according to a blog post published Monday.
If you were to stick a pin into a map of Los Angeles at the precise location where one might least expect a heinous act of murderous violence, it would likely land right here, on South Chadbourne Avenue. This narrow lane in Brentwood, tucked discreetly a few blocks south of Sunset, lined with palm trees and gated multi-million-dollar mansions, is usually as calm and idyllic as a David Hockney landscape.
But not right now. On this day, Dec. 14, it looks like something out of a James Ellroy fever dream. Police tape blocks off the road at both ends while TV news vans crowd the curbs and swarms of podcasters and online influencers jostle each other with their vlogging sticks for better views of the grisly scene up the street.
Källa: At Rob Reiner’s Brentwood Home, Shock and Sorrow Crowd Out the Frame
Apple is rumored to launch five new Home products in the year ahead, and ahead of that renewed smart home push, iOS 26.2 has just added a key enhancement to make adding new accessories easier.
Multipack accessories can be set up faster than ever in iOS 26.2
The evolution of smart home technology has come with all sorts of steps forward and steps back over the past decade. In the latter category, there’s news like we got today of important smart device manufacturers filing for bankruptcy.
On the positive side though, platforms like Matter have made smart home accessories more interoperable than ever. And Apple has progressively made the device setup process easier too.
iOS 26.2 takes another step in that direction. It improves the setup process—specifically when you have a pack of accessories sold together.
Källa: iOS 26.2’s Home app has a new upgrade for adding accessories – 9to5Mac
Last week Apple released feature-packed updates like iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, and more. New features for visionOS 26.2 appeared minimal during the beta process, but it turns out, the update actually brought a big upgrade for using Apple Vision Pro on the go.
Källa: visionOS 26.2 adds big change for using Apple Vision Pro on the go – 9to5Mac
Apple is preparing to bring support for its Car Keys feature to Toyota vehicles, evidence uncovered by MacRumors suggests. Toyota introduced its own Digital Key feature as part of the available Remote Connect package several years ago, which allows drivers to use their smartphone as a key to access and drive the vehicle. Now, the company appears to be adding support for Apple Car Keys, with the feature going live as of today on Apple’s back end.
