Tech

Scale AI cuts 700 jobs month after Meta's investment, cites Gen AI-related restructuring (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-17 AI

The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables connecting to the US (t.co)
2025-7-17 China Ban

Samsung Electronics Chair Jay Y. Lee wins a full reprieval from South Korea's Supreme Court in a protracted fight over fraud and stock manipulation allegations (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-17 Korea Samsung

Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-17 China

Jack Dorsey invests $10M in “and Other Stuff”, a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17

How AI and automation are transforming agriculture, enabling autonomous tractors and fruit-picking robots, and improving crop management via data and analytics (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-17 AI Robot

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona “by several quarters” to meet robust US chip demand (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-17

TSMC reports Q2 net profit up ~60% YoY to ~$13.53B, beating estimates, and forecasts ~30% sales growth in USD terms in 2025, up from mid-20% previously (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17

360 Million Indians Just Got Premium AI Chatbots For Free For a Year (slashdot.org)
2025-7-17 AI chatbot Qihoo

5 Critical Google Workspace Security Settings You Could Be Missing (www.nudgesecurity.com)
2025-7-17 Google

Transatlantic Communications Cable Doubles As Ocean Sensor (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-17 Sensor

How to conduct an AI risk assessment [Free Guide] (www.nudgesecurity.com)
2025-7-17 AI

10 Real-Life Killers Whose Crimes Recreated Movie Scenes (listverse.com)
2025-7-17

10 Spanish-Language Horror Films That Will Haunt Your Dreams (listverse.com)
2025-7-17 Spain

AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools and labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-7-17 AI

Location sharing apps like Find My, Snap Map, and Life360 remain popular among Gen Z users, despite concerns about their impact on real-world relationships (www.sfgate.com)
2025-7-17

A look at Chinese firm Hailanyun's $223M undersea data center, about six miles offshore from Shanghai, which uses tech pioneered by Microsoft's Project Natick (www.scientificamerican.com)
2025-7-17 China Microsoft Shanghai

Elliptic estimates cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity has topped $21.8B in 2025, up from $7B in 2023; North Korea is responsible for ~12% of the total (cointelegraph.com)
2025-7-17 Korea

A look at Neon Coat, an app that offers models and influencers free restaurant meals, fitness classes, and other experiences in exchange for social media posts (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-17

Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, normally $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator (www.moneycontrol.com)
2025-7-17 India

Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (therecord.media)
2025-7-17 Google

Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (t.co)
2025-7-17 Europe

Regain control of SaaS spend and third-party risk (www.nudgesecurity.com)
2025-7-17 SaaS

Stellantis Abandons Hydrogen Fuel Cell Development (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-17

Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from 3% now, with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely (fortune.com)
2025-7-17 AI

Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-17 Microsoft Mobile AI Sensor

Bengaluru-based QpiAI, which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17 AI Quantum

Coinbase rolls out the Base App, rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as an “everything app” that combines social networking, mini-apps, chat, payments, and trading (www.theblock.co)
2025-7-17 Coinbase

Germany Is Building the World's Tallest Wind Turbine (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-7-17 Germany

In response to a March FOIA request, the US Marshals Service said it held over 28,988 BTC, worth ~$3.4B at current prices, far fewer than previously believed (www.theblock.co)
2025-7-17

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