Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings will not seek re-election to the board after nearly 30 years. The Q1 2026 earnings announcement caps his tenure as chairman following over two decades as CEO.
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Paul Meade, Apple’s VP in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses development, is leaving for OpenAI’s hardware unit by next week to work on its AI-powered devices. The departure, reported June 26, 2026, continues a pattern of executives exiting Apple for AI rivals and follows a 2025 restructuring of the company’s spatial computing teams.
Netflix is requiring each profile under a subscription to link to a unique email address, a permanent change that began rolling out on June 15, 2026. The policy has triggered complaints from families sharing a TV and from single users who rely on multiple profiles to sort content types, alongside worries that the data will feed advertising networks.
According to a satirical incident report, a malicious package passed seven AI security gates before exfiltrating credentials from dependent projects. The 96-hour incident highlights repeated failures of current AI-powered supply chain tools to detect clearly malicious code.
