Another robot fails

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Tech Across the Globe

Job cuts: Dating app Bumble is cutting almost one third of its staff, months after founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned to lead the company.

Pressure on Apple: Apple is about to offer more changes to the App Store to satisfy EU regulators, who fined the iPhone maker $580 million and said the company must make it easier for developers to steer customers outside its walled system.

Micron's outlook: The top US maker of memory chips gave a strong forecast, fueled by the continuing surge in demand for artificial intelligence equipment.

Revalued

Sceye, a startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons meant to hover in the air for months at a time, has raised $15 million from SoftBank in its effort to monitor climate data and bring connectivity to hard-to-reach areas. The company, whose name is pronounced "sky," was valued at $580 million in the funding round.

Must Read

Robots are hard. Just ask Neura Robotics CEO David Reger, who this week was supposed to give a debut to his company's humanoid machines. Instead, he had to recite data about looming labor shortages in making his case for automation via robots. Neura's machines weren't yet good enough to show off, Mark Bergen and Verena Sepp report in today's Tech In Depth essay.

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This Week in Cyber Bulletin

While President Donald Trump ordered the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities this past weekend, the US took a decidedly quieter approach to derailing Iran's nuclear capabilities roughly 15 years ago, Margi Murphy and Dina Bass report in this week's Cyber Bulletin. Then, a secret computer worm called Stuxnet, worked its way through Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. No one publicly claimed responsibility for the malware, which was designed to break laboratory equipment used by Iranian scientists to enrich uranium, but experts widely attributed it to the US and Israel, they write.

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