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2026-08-04 19:52:23 UTC

Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/US/12-states-face-cyberattacks-water-systems-sources/story?id=135348482
http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p38#a260804p38

2026-07-14 07:56:29 UTC

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e9db6384-b295-4ab2-96bf-55025db9ee1d
http://www.techmeme.com/260714/p3#a260714p3

2026-06-11 11:35:43 UTC

A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News)
https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro
http://www.techmeme.com/260611/p15#a260611p15

2026-06-11 05:36:05 UTC

Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/43f44d4a-09c6-4452-a37c-b1c2955143d0
http://www.techmeme.com/260611/p3#a260611p3

2026-06-10 08:45:54 UTC

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025 (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/is-xbox-fixable/
http://www.techmeme.com/260610/p13#a260610p13

2026-06-07 01:55:55 UTC

How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/business/linkedin-social-media-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.CB-z.d-b0OiKg5BM7&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260606/p12#a260606p12

2026-06-02 19:25:51 UTC

Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians (Clare Duffy/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/tech/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic
http://www.techmeme.com/260602/p54#a260602p54

2026-05-21 11:15:59 UTC

Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/business/bluesky-russia-hacking-accounts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.Mf5v.2XWGYgIy3PJN&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.techmeme.com/260521/p15#a260521p15

2026-05-18 06:05:53 UTC

Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/932215/microsoft-teams-together-mode
http://www.techmeme.com/260518/p5#a260518p5

2026-05-09 22:55:49 UTC

FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number
http://www.techmeme.com/260509/p14#a260509p14

2026-05-06 12:11:08 UTC

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/david-sacks-crypto-ai-venture-capital/686941/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38RUbn3fdh2sogd45ccc3R0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.techmeme.com/260506/p22#a260506p22

2026-05-05 20:15:57 UTC

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox "will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console" as part of a strategic shift (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/924551/microsoft-xbox-ceo-copilot-ai-asha-sharma
http://www.techmeme.com/260505/p43#a260505p43

2026-04-30 19:15:51 UTC

Filing: Meta says it might be forced to withdraw its apps from New Mexico if a judge orders it to adopt the state's proposed safety features (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/30/business/meta-threatens-shutdown-in-new-mexico-if-judge-orders-impractical-kids-protections/
http://www.techmeme.com/260430/p46#a260430p46

2026-04-17 13:25:54 UTC

An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9e0e0fc6-ab7d-4b69-a8b1-5a972b82fb06
http://www.techmeme.com/260417/p15#a260417p15

2026-04-09 16:45:44 UTC

Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall "into the hands of America's enemies" and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT use (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/florida-ag-probe-openai-chatgpt-2026-04-09/
http://www.techmeme.com/260409/p29#a260409p29

2026-04-02 05:06:09 UTC

Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that has reportedly affected 30,000 staff worldwide (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/oracles-ai-pivot-cuts-deep-lays-off-20-of-its-india-workforce/articleshow/129959312.cms
http://www.techmeme.com/260402/p2#a260402p2

2026-03-08 17:50:37 UTC

The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ai-is-turbocharging-the-war-in-iran-aca59002?st=tkAocR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260308/p9#a260308p9

2026-02-03 23:50:55 UTC

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/873490/microsoft-next-gen-xbox-console-2027-date-amd?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IkhWNEZXOGpZQWkiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODczNDkwL21pY3Jvc29mdC1uZXh0LWdlbi14Ym94LWNvbnNvbGUtMjAyNy1kYXRlLWFtZCIsImV4cCI6MTc3MDU5Mjk4OCwiaWF0IjoxNzcwMTYwOTg4fQ.OrKVYDe1rcR_PFgaQqQ10j0npEOqZjg3fxruBdB-vXI&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.techmeme.com/260203/p46#a260203p46

2026-01-26 22:40:46 UTC

Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after ICE killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/
http://www.techmeme.com/260126/p39#a260126p39

2025-12-24 00:45:49 UTC

The Trump administration says it will replace the lottery program used to grant H-1B visas with a "weighted" system that prioritizes higher-paid individuals (Aime Williams/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2e50f86f-2a40-4e5c-9470-7978b979c081
http://www.techmeme.com/251223/p25#a251223p25

2025-10-27 07:55:43 UTC

An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a "consistent experience" across devices, and more (Verity Burns/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-pepsi-man-is-coming-to-save-samsung-from-boring-design/
http://www.techmeme.com/251027/p4#a251027p4

2025-10-08 11:54:47 UTC

A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU "Chat Control" laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-campaign-ravages-eu-chat-control-bill-fight-chat-control/
http://www.techmeme.com/251008/p23#a251008p23

2025-09-22 22:06:01 UTC

Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI companies, call for international action to create "red lines" for AI development by the end of 2026 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/nobel-laureates-ai-developers-red-lines-un-general-assembly
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p28#a250922p28

2025-09-22 18:10:48 UTC

On the H-1B fee, Jensen Huang says he's "glad" to see "Trump making the moves he's making"; Sam Altman says "outlining financial incentives seems good to me" (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-ceos-huang-altman-trump-h1b-visas.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p23#a250922p23

2025-09-22 17:55:46 UTC

Omnea, which makes AI tools for automating procurement, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners and Khosla Ventures, taking its total funding to $75M (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/omnea-procurement-ai-startup-raises-50-million-insight-khosla-2025-9
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p22#a250922p22

2025-09-22 15:15:46 UTC

The RIAA amends its lawsuit against Suno, now accusing it of unlawfully "stream ripping" songs on YouTube and violating the DMCA (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782448/riaa-suno-ai-lawsuit-update-stream-ripping-youtube
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p14#a250922p14

2025-09-22 10:15:42 UTC

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/sweden-norway-finland-power-firms-to-cash-in-on-europe-data-center-boom
http://www.techmeme.com/250922/p3#a250922p3

2025-09-22 00:02:10 UTC

Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (Vitalik Buterin/Vitalik Buterin's website)
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/low_risk_defi.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p25#a250921p25

2025-09-21 16:31:23 UTC

Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/apple-now-controls-all-core-iphone-chips-prioritizing-ai-workloads.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p14#a250921p14

2025-09-21 13:10:36 UTC

An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship/
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p9#a250921p9

2025-09-21 11:05:38 UTC

As carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, scammers are using "SMS blasters" that impersonate base stations to send fake messages to nearby phones (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sms-blasters-scam-texts/
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p8#a250921p8

2025-09-21 09:01:55 UTC

White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a "one-time fee that applies only to the petition" in the upcoming lottery (Karoline Leavitt/@presssec)
https://x.com/presssec/status/1969495900478488745
http://www.techmeme.com/250921/p7#a250921p7

2025-09-21 01:05:59 UTC

A profile of Noah Urban, who was a key member of the Scattered Spider group because of his social engineering skills and is serving a 10-year prison sentence (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-19/multimillion-dollar-hacking-spree-scattered-spider-teen-s-jailhouse-confessions?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODI4MTkwMSwiZXhwIjoxNzU4ODg2NzAxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlUyTVNHUTFZWVUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwNUVDNUJDRTNFOTA0ODQ0OThBOTc5MkM0MDIwNkUzNyJ9.hZarEq-EdSn6zXTfZnJEI870hLN66BhFQhLN7kqmKds
http://www.techmeme.com/250920/p18#a250920p18

2025-09-20 09:50:56 UTC

Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in and boarding systems, confirms a "cyber-related disruption" as Heathrow and other European airports report issues (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/en/cyberattack-causes-flight-delays-cancellations-brussels-airport-2025-09-20/
http://www.techmeme.com/250920/p5#a250920p5

2025-09-20 00:51:14 UTC

Microsoft says it will bring a $3.3B data center in Wisconsin online in early 2026 and calls it "the world's most powerful AI datacenter" (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-microsofts-plans-for-the-most-advanced-ai-data-center-in-the-world-ee50bd4c?st=Vso4Sh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250919/p25#a250919p25

2025-06-03 11:30:47 UTC

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x+ the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-social-twitter/
http://www.techmeme.com/250603/p12#a250603p12

2025-05-23 14:05:58 UTC

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for initial comments during a quarterly call; Klarna CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings earlier this week (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/after-klarna-zooms-ceo-also-uses-an-ai-avatar-on-quarterly-call/
http://www.techmeme.com/250523/p12#a250523p12

2025-05-05 10:40:43 UTC

Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' spiritual delusions; experts warn AI's human-like chats can exacerbate existing psychological vulnerabilities (Miles Klee/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
http://www.techmeme.com/250505/p4#a250505p4

2025-04-15 16:08:41 UTC

Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
http://www.techmeme.com/250415/p19#a250415p19

2025-02-19 22:11:18 UTC

Uber ditches commissions in favor of fees for auto-rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/uber-ditches-commissions-in-favor-of-fees-for-auto-rickshaw-drivers-in-india/
http://www.techmeme.com/250219/p47#a250219p47

2025-02-16 14:40:38 UTC

Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from the state's China-built satellite, are smuggling in Starlink kits despite the country's ban in August 2024 (William Wroblewski/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/bolivians-smuggle-starlink-to-escape-china-backed-internet/
http://www.techmeme.com/250216/p5#a250216p5

2025-02-14 02:45:49 UTC

Reddit says content licensing deals with Google and OpenAI account for ~10% of its revenue, but its primary focus is on ad revenue, which grew 60% YoY in Q4 (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ai-licensing-deals-with-google-and-openai-make-up-10-of-reddits-revenue/
http://www.techmeme.com/250213/p46#a250213p46

2025-02-10 17:40:49 UTC

Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all of the CFPB's data systems, which hold confidential info potentially pertaining to X's rivals (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-10/doge-backed-halt-at-cfpb-comes-amid-musk-s-plans-for-x-digital-wallet?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczOTE5OTMzNywiZXhwIjoxNzM5ODA0MTM3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTUkdQNTlUMVVNMFgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.L98joZiIyb7TYFH6UcOk8T4tjZfcJLx2uwgw1T3xXlI
http://www.techmeme.com/250210/p21#a250210p21

2025-02-04 18:56:04 UTC

Elon Musk accused an X user of "a crime" who named federal staff in a post that X then removed--showing what actual government social media censorship looks like (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actual-government-censorship-on-social-media-looks-like/
http://www.techmeme.com/250204/p23#a250204p23

2025-01-27 23:30:54 UTC

DeepSeek's privacy policy shows broad data collection practices and says user data, along with all the conversations and prompts, is stored on servers in China (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-ai-china-privacy-data/
http://www.techmeme.com/250127/p25#a250127p25

2025-01-16 21:07:36 UTC

Sources: Zuckerberg told Stephen Miller that he would do nothing to obstruct Trump's agenda and blamed Sheryl Sandberg for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.bIb0.BWyB-KWYxZ6u&smid=url-share
http://www.techmeme.com/250116/p46#a250116p46

2025-01-09 05:31:07 UTC

A look at AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi, with embedded always-on microphones to record conversations around users and provide actionable insights (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bee-ai-omi-always-listening-ai-wearables/
http://www.techmeme.com/250109/p1#a250109p1

2025-01-07 03:15:38 UTC

Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337396/nvidia-rtx-5080-5090-5070-ti-5070-price-release-date
http://www.techmeme.com/250106/p36#a250106p36

2024-11-04 15:21:08 UTC

Q&A with GM SVP Baris Cetinok on having a "high conviction" that ditching CarPlay and Android Auto is the right call, building autonomous cars, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24285581/gm-software-baris-cetinok-apple-carplay-android-auto-google-cars-evs-decoder-podcast
http://www.techmeme.com/241104/p13#a241104p13

2024-10-20 18:25:52 UTC

After Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter a day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says "law enforcement could take a look at" the plan (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/pennsylvania-gov-shapiro-law-enforcement-take-look-elon-musk-voter-pay-rcna176279
http://www.techmeme.com/241020/p5#a241020p5

2024-09-29 04:41:12 UTC

YouTube blocks songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, and others in the US, after its music licensing agreement with performing rights organization SESAC expired (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/adele-bob-dylan-songs-blocked-by-youtube-legal-dispute-1236159099/
http://www.techmeme.com/240929/p2#a240929p2

2024-09-04 03:40:53 UTC

A test of ~1,300 top games on Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs finds only about half ran smoothly; Microsoft says some titles with demanding graphics may not play (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/microsoft-rolled-out-ai-pcs-that-cant-play-top-gamesand-theres-no-quick-fix-0a1b6376?st=tehrtpnld2rac6n
http://www.techmeme.com/240903/p36#a240903p36

2024-09-02 10:10:39 UTC

Apple is gearing up for a battle with app makers and legislators over whether regulation of teen's social media use should happen in apps or at the device level (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-helped-nix-part-of-a-child-safety-bill-more-fights-are-expected-23905d4d
http://www.techmeme.com/240902/p4#a240902p4

2024-06-19 06:30:44 UTC

As Nvidia passes Microsoft's market cap, John Chambers, who was the CEO when Cisco passed Microsoft during the dot-com boom, says the situation now is different (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidias-ascent-to-most-valuable-company-has-echoes-of-dot-com-boom-dd836c90?st=276shvptwdhe3vf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p7#a240619p7

2024-06-19 06:25:48 UTC

Sources: Huawei, which is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on HarmonyOS, nears a deal with Tencent to exclude WeChat from revenue sharing (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-19/huawei-tencent-near-deal-to-exclude-wechat-from-revenue-sharing
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p6#a240619p6

2024-06-19 06:20:59 UTC

A Google DeepMind study involving 20 professional comedians who already use AI in their work finds LLMs struggled to produce material that was original or funny (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/17/1093740/what-happened-when-20-comedians-got-ai-to-write-their-routines/
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p5#a240619p5

2024-06-19 05:51:02 UTC

Fengate Asset Management acquires over two-thirds stake in eStruxture, which operates data centers in 15 locations in four Canadian cities, in a $1.3B deal (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/fengate-acquires-canada-data-storage-firm-estruxture-in-1-3-billion-deal-ed53d33f?st=l6ntf0pel38stz5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p4#a240619p4

2024-06-19 05:26:09 UTC

Japan is looking to lure AI investment away from Europe and elsewhere by adopting a light-touch, industry-led approach to regulating AI (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/p1HSNmxzxM
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p3#a240619p3

2024-06-19 04:31:04 UTC

Sources: Google and OpenAI have stepped up staff vetting over Chinese espionage threat; Sequoia has encouraged some portfolio companies to tighten staff vetting (Financial Times)
https://t.co/QWmahZMWcQ
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p2#a240619p2

2024-06-19 04:05:45 UTC

A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers "privacy-preserving" ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/
http://www.techmeme.com/240619/p1#a240619p1

2024-06-19 02:35:44 UTC

FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p38#a240618p38

2024-06-19 01:35:58 UTC

Consensys says the US SEC is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0 and "will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions" (Ryan Ozawa/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/236039/sec-dropping-ethereum-investigation-consensys
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p37#a240618p37

2024-06-19 01:10:46 UTC

The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/18/amazon-fine-labor-law-california/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p36#a240618p36

2024-06-18 23:45:44 UTC

Internal memo: Meta merges its Reality Labs teams into the "Metaverse" product group that now includes Quest, and the AR product group, now called "Wearables" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24181420/meta-wearables-reality-labs-layoffs
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p35#a240618p35

2024-06-18 21:45:45 UTC

Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands $50M to end it (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/uk-hospital-hackers-say-they-ve-demanded-50-million-in-ransom
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p34#a240618p34

2024-06-18 21:16:20 UTC

Qualcomm agrees to pay $75M to resolve a suit from shareholders accusing Qualcomm of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/qualcomm-reaches-75-mln-settlement-over-sales-licensing-practices-2024-06-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p33#a240618p33

2024-06-18 21:01:25 UTC

AMD says it is looking into claims that company information was stolen in a hack, after a user on BreachForums said they breached AMD's systems (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/amd-is-investigating-claims-that-company-data-was-stolen-in-hack
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p32#a240618p32

2024-06-18 20:45:51 UTC

Appfigures: iOS 18 could "Sherlock" trail apps, grammar helpers, math solvers, password managers, and emoji apps that have an estimated $393M in annual revenue (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/ios-18-could-sherlock-400m-in-app-revenue/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p31#a240618p31

2024-06-18 20:35:48 UTC

The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ftc-refers-complaint-against-tiktok-justice-department-2024-06-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p30#a240618p30

2024-06-18 20:01:23 UTC

An ex-Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/former-snap-engineer-launches-butterflies-a-social-network-where-ais-and-humans-coexist/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p29#a240618p29

2024-06-18 19:20:53 UTC

Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/forbes-perplexity-ai-legal-action-copyright
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p28#a240618p28

2024-06-18 18:30:43 UTC

Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/link/2024/06/apple-refuses-to-notarize-emulator-app/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p27#a240618p27

2024-06-18 18:15:48 UTC

HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed "turnkey" option (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/hpe-unveils-private-cloud-ai-broad-nvidia-partnership-aimed-genai-workloads
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p26#a240618p26

2024-06-18 17:19:03 UTC

Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/nvidia-passes-microsoft-in-market-cap-is-most-valuable-public-company.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p25#a240618p25

2024-06-18 17:05:49 UTC

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/documents-show-how-musk-s-x-plans-to-become-the-next-venmo
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p24#a240618p24

2024-06-18 16:25:50 UTC

AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/genspark-is-the-latest-attempt-at-an-ai-powered-search-engine/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p23#a240618p23

2024-06-18 15:50:52 UTC

ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all day battery life, gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/asus-vivobook-s-15-copilot-pc-review
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p22#a240618p22

2024-06-18 15:22:41 UTC

Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-suspends-work-on-next-high-end-headset-focused-on-releasing-cheaper-model-in-late-2025
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p21#a240618p21

2024-06-18 15:01:09 UTC

A study of 10 chatbots, including from Perplexity and OpenAI, shows how often they repeat Russian disinfo and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p20#a240618p20

2024-06-18 13:55:44 UTC

London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/surrealdb-is-helping-developers-consolidate-their-databases/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p19#a240618p19

2024-06-18 13:40:41 UTC

Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24180298/xreal-beam-pro-ar-glasses-usb-c-launch
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p18#a240618p18

2024-06-18 13:25:49 UTC

Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyber-company-huntress-raises-150-million-in-series-d-funding-d76a04f6?st=ctfrhm386o7a9kn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p17#a240618p17

2024-06-18 12:45:42 UTC

Blackstone plans to buy Japanese digital comic provider Infocom in a ~$1.7B deal, in its biggest private equity transaction in Japan to date (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/blackstone-taps-steamy-romance-manga-fans-in-1-7-billion-deal
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p16#a240618p16

2024-06-18 12:25:40 UTC

Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025 (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/autonomous-trucking-startup-waabi-raises-200-mln-2024-06-18/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p15#a240618p15

2024-06-18 11:05:44 UTC

Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024 (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
https://t.co/3JSLCKQoNm
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p14#a240618p14

2024-06-18 10:55:40 UTC

Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/business/economy/amazon-labor-union-teamsters.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p13#a240618p13

2024-06-18 10:40:40 UTC

Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of "very serious" issues under the EU's DMA, and the conclusions of an investigation will arrive "hopefully soon" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/apple-issues-very-serious-under-landmark-eu-rules-vestager.html
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p12#a240618p12

2024-06-18 10:21:03 UTC

Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more (Ann-Marie Alcántara/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/can-you-replace-google-search-with-reddit-i-tried-it-for-a-week-ea1f36c5?st=dnyht7vzp8jzvng&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p11#a240618p11

2024-06-18 09:55:41 UTC

Sources: Huawei is considering taking a cut of in-app purchases on its Harmony OS, and has discussed a ~20% fee with developers, below Apple and Google's 30% (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/huawei-considers-app-store-fees-as-it-surpasses-iphone-in-china
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p10#a240618p10

2024-06-18 09:35:40 UTC

A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, which aim to be "a design toolkit for automakers", including feature "layers", "remote UI", and "punch-through UI" (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180353/apple-carplay-wireless-system-features
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p9#a240618p9

2024-06-18 09:01:25 UTC

Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p8#a240618p8

2024-06-18 08:01:31 UTC

Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/social-media-influencers-arent-getting-richtheyre-barely-getting-by-71e0aad3?st=snqhy92nimb59t6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p7#a240618p7

2024-06-18 06:30:46 UTC

A look at Shein's efforts to diversify away from fast fashion, as the company struggles to get third-party merchants to sign up for its marketplace (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://t.co/N5eh5bu9L3
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p6#a240618p6

2024-06-18 06:20:41 UTC

Down-ballot campaigns in the US are experimenting with AI, which can help them save money and time, while also raising fears about the threats of AI deepfakes (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-local-races-deepfakes-2024-1d5080a5c916d5ff10eadd1d81f43dfd
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p5#a240618p5

2024-06-18 06:10:52 UTC

A look at India's quick commerce market, which has become an important distribution channel for Indian food brands, as Zepto and others expand beyond groceries (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/can-quick-commerce-leapfrog-e-commerce-in-india/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p4#a240618p4

2024-06-18 05:20:36 UTC

Google launches Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages; Gemini will be available via Google app on iOS in the coming weeks (Amar Subramanya/Google)
https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/technology/gemini-in-india-now-on-mobile-multilingual-and-more-powerful-for-your-everyday-tasks/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p3#a240618p3

2024-06-18 05:01:18 UTC

Cambridge-based CuspAI, which is developing AI-powered tech for designing new materials, raised a $30M seed and has added Geoffrey Hinton to its advisory board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/ai-legend-geoffrey-hinton-to-advise-uk-green-materials-startup
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p2#a240618p2

2024-06-18 04:50:43 UTC

Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent "upload moderation" proposal to detect CSAM "fundamentally undermines encryption" of messaging apps (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/stop-playing-games-with-online-security-signal-president-warns-eu-lawmakers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p1#a240618p1

2024-06-18 03:01:01 UTC

Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3266882/shein-heads-towards-ipo-its-chinese-billionaire-founder-stays-under-cloak-secrecy
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p35#a240617p35

2024-06-18 02:15:37 UTC

Finbourne, which helps financial companies organize and use their data in AI and other models, raised a £55M Series B at a valuation just over £280M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/finbourne-taps-70m-for-tech-that-turns-financial-data-dust-into-ai-gold/
http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p34#a240617p34