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Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
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How Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has been an outspoken voice on politics, a rare tech leader openly criticizing Trump actions and an ICE shooting (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Trump Google

This $46 SurfShark VPN plan gives you extra privacy while browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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West trying ‘to wash its hands' of slavery legacy – South African politician (www.rt.com)
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Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns (www.nytimes.com)
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A study finds ~$143M in suspicious profits on Polymarket over two years, using patterns consistent with the use of nonpublic info, as prediction markets boom (www.bloomberg.com)
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Hackers now exploit critical F5 BIG-IP flaw in attacks, patch now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Q&A with NYU professor Julian Togelius on his recent paper about LLMs' limitations in playing video games, why coding is a kind of well-designed game, and more (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weekend; the movie cost $200M to make (variety.com)
4 days ago Amazon

AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications (www.ft.com)
5 days ago AI

Microsoft pulls KB5079391 Windows update over install issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Battle for Hungary: EU attacks on Orban are a sign of worse things to come (www.rt.com)
5 days ago Europe

Protesting Israel's Targeted Killing of Civilian Professors in Lebanon (www.juancole.com)
5 days ago Israel Lebanon

200K in St. Paul Join 8M Record “No Kings” US Protest (www.juancole.com)
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Trump's “New” Mideast: False Promises of Peace Through War (www.juancole.com)
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Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago AI San Francisco

Ukrainian press gang backs off after American intervenes (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
5 days ago U.S. Ukraine

A look at Amazon's major push into rural US areas, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, encroaching on Walmart's territory (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Amazon Walmart

Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Europe Startup AI Nvidia Paris

An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
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Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, whose team worked separately from its core research team, as it shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks (www.wsj.com)
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An analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure, above the ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns on SaaS stocks (www.wsj.com)
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DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago China chatbot

A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts (simonwillison.net)
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European Commission confirms data breach after Europa.eu hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Europe

Critical Fortinet Forticlient EMS flaw now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs (apple.slashdot.org)
5 days ago Apple

Ukrainian MP calls fallen Soviet soldiers ‘scumbags' (www.rt.com)
5 days ago Ukraine

Data centres are Australia's chance to shape AI's future (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
5 days ago Australia AI

Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law (www.wired.com)
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