Tech

Micron surges nearly 38% on week as memory chip rally goes parabolic

Micron Technology shares caught fire this week amid a global shortage of memory chips. The stock is heading for its best week since 2008.

Cyber-attack on system widely used in US education disrupts final exams

Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic year

UFO files reveal Apollo 17 crew saw mysterious objects, lights during 1972 mission: "Looks like the Fourth of July"

Updated on: May 8, 2026 / 1:32 PM EDT / CBS News

Flipping Off Phones

Why more people are trading in their smartphones for dumb ones

Soft armour, pert nipples: how London design team made Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala breastplate

Duo Whitaker Malem worked with pop art sculptor Allen Jones and a car bodyshop in Kent to create gala’s biggest jolt

How David Attenborough transformed film and TV forever

David Attenborough has spent more than seven decades bringing the natural world into our living rooms, becoming one of the first truly recognisable faces on television.

Cartels and terrorists see sky as way to way to breach US border

PHOENIX — Officials at the Departments of Homeland Security and War are gravely concerned about the security of the nation’s skies along the land border and have admitted that the airspace is incredibly easy to penetrate from Canada and Mexico.

Pentagon releases first batch of UFO files: "It's time the American people see it for themselves"

Updated on: May 8, 2026 / 12:07 PM EDT / CBS News

Canvas Back Online After Cyberattack Shuttered Learning Platform for Schools Across U.S.

Updated on: May 8, 2026 / 11:36 AM EDT / CBS/AP

AWS data center outage hits trading on FanDuel, Coinbase

The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.

AI-powered surveillance company Palantir created a chore coat. Great, now I have no choice but to burn mine

The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone

What does a woman swimming in urine tell us about the state of the world? Lots!

The theme of earth’s biggest art extravaganza – spiritual rest – felt wildly wrong for our crisis-hit planet. Thank goodness for the pavilions, from fake babies to hi-tech sperm banks to a chocolate Russell Crowe