• Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
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• The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
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• Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
• Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
• Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
• Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
• Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
• Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
• Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
• NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
• Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
• Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
• Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
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• Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
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• The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
• Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
• FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

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• Big Tech firms beat earnings expectations amid AI spending questions
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• Microsoft speeds up in Big Tech's data center spend-off
• Crosswording the Situation
• Meta's historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million
• Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks
• Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
• Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram
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• Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI's models
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• Sam Altman asked GPT-5.5 to plan its own launch party. Its requests were 'beautiful' but 'strange.'
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• 'We Know You Live Right Here': No Secrets in America's New Surveillance Dragnet
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• China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
• Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
• The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
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• Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public
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• AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
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• Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler
• Pioneering geneticist and decoder of the human genome J. Craig Venter dies at age 79

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• Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO
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• Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today
• Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.
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• OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
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• Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
• Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings
• Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
• Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
• What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'
• Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
• Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
• Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
• Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
• 'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty
• Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
• The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars
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• This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
• The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
• This pasta sauce wants to record your family

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• Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
• Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
• You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
• Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
• AI anxiety is turning volatile
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
• Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
• The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
• Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
• Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
• Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
• Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
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• Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
• Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
• What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
• TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
• It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
• Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
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• Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing
• Sam Altman Fire Bombing Response
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• ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
• Helium Is Hard to Replace
• John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement
• France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
• The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
• DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Settlement
• My Quest to Solve Bitcoin's Great Mystery
• Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%
• 'Abhorrent': the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war

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• NASA: Artemis II
• Artemis II Live Tracker – Real-Time Orion Spacecraft Position, Speed & Trajectory
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• Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.
• Claude Code's Source Didn't Leak. It Was Already Public for Years. | AfterPack Blog
• Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra
• OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for 'low hundreds of millions'
• The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive
• After 16 Years and $8 Billion, the Military's New GPS Software Still Doesn't Work - Slashdot
• Why the Pentagon loves Xbox controllers for laser weapons
• Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares "hard down" status for multiple zones
• Iran's hackers go to war
• Breaking down the government's bizarre router ban
• How to turn anything into a router
• You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
• Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law - Slashdot
• Delta to Tap Amazon Satellite-Internet Service for In-Flight Wi-Fi
• The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won computing's highest prize
• Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones
• ZomboCom was stolen by hacker, put up for sale, and has now been...

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• Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube
• Section 230 and First Amendment implications debated after court verdicts
• Supreme Court sides with Cox; ISPs not liable for user piracy
• Elon Musk's lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out
• Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims
• FCC's confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout
• Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs
• The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification
• Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography
• Antimatter on the move: CERN's oddball truck experiment
• Sci-fi and reality blur as Neal Stephenson walks away from the metaverse
• Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance
• Digital shelf pricing arrives at Walmart and Kroger
• Flipper Zero: voice-controlled hacking gadget gets an AI upgrade
• Age verification laws create headaches for OS and app developers
• Official White House app called out for surveillance and security blunders
• Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future?

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• CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century
• A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace
• FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
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• Microsoft unveils MAJOR improvements coming to Windows 11 this year — movable Taskbar, reduced RAM usage, less AI and ads, and much more CONFIRMED: "We are evolving how Windows is built behind the scenes to raise the quality bar"
• Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June
• Meta changes course on Horizon Worlds VR shut-down
• Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups
• Jury agrees that Musk's tweets during Twitter takeover misled investors
• After three months, Samsung is ending sales of the $2,899 Galaxy Z TriFold
• 200,000 Devices Erased? Pro-Iran Hackers Hit US Firm With Data-Wiping Attack
• Japan to allow 'proactive cyber-defense' from October 1st
• Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web
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• Polymarket is opening a bar where you can drink and watch the world unravel in real time
• It's been 20 years since the first tweet
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• The futurist who helped define tech trend reports just killed them (literally)
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• Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
• Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model
• Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children
• Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal
• Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside
• Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
• X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation
• Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X
• Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion
• Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
• Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
• Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases
• DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery
• U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court
• Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
• EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story)
• TerraPower gets permit to build reactor
• Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'
• Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
• Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case
• Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
• Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff
• How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
• 'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer
• YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue
• Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns
• Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them
• Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

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