Tech

Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-30 Virginia

Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers 'Navigate the AI Economy' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-30 AI

As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-30 Alibaba Tencent

Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Uber Autonomous Car

Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-30 India iPhone Apple

Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by $9M to $17M (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-30 AI

Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 Microsoft

WhatsApp rolls out usernames to help users hide their phone number (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 WhatsApp

California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount (www.politico.com)
2026-6-30 California

In Q2, there were thirteen $1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-6-30 IPO Startup

Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-30 AI

SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30

Sources: Amazon is weighing using OpenAI's and its own Nova models to cut costs after Anthropic raised prices for using its models in Amazon products (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-30 Amazon

WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year (9to5mac.com)
2026-6-30 WhatsApp

Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but “other forces” opposed it (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-30 Greece

SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt (www.npr.org)
2026-6-30 Trump

Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI agents, raised a $64M Series A, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.axios.com)
2026-6-30 AI

U.S. offers $10 million for hackers targeting WhatsApp, Signal users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 WhatsApp

IBM Says It Can Fit Nearly 100 Billion Transistors On a Chip (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-30 IBM

Hackers now exploit critical Oracle E-Business flaw in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 Oracle

Critical SimpleHelp flaw exploited to deploy new stealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30

Agentic AI Has an Identity Problem and Attackers Know It (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-30 AI

Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-30 SpaceX

Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-29 Bitcoin

Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-29 AI

Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a “point-to-voucher” system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 Japan Startup

AdGuard's Family Plan is on sale for a one-time $15 through 7/1 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-29

Webinar: Why business email compromise attacks keep succeeding (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-29

The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-29

Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~$2.9B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 China Alibaba Startup AI Robot

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