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Overview Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world's largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns th...

Funding Round Overview OpenAI has closed what is now the largest private financing in history—a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre‑money valuation. This...

Ballooning memory prices are forecast to wipe out entry‑level PCs and curb global shipments this year, with a similar impact expected for smartphones. Analyst f...

Background For decades, planetary scientists have pored over a mystery hidden within the Moon rocks retrieved by Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and ’70s. Miner...

NASA revealed that astronaut Mike Fincke was the crew member who suffered a medical incident aboard the International Space Station in January, prompting the ag...

Background Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology. The m...

Convictions A Greek court convicted four individuals involved in marketing the Predator spyware that was at the centre of the 2022 wire‑tapping scandal. The de...

Proposed Colorado Bill SB26-051 Colorado lawmakers are proposing SB26-051, a bill that would require operating systems to register a user's age bracket and sha...

Layoffs Overview Jack Dorsey's Block is cutting more than 4,000 jobs—nearly half its workforce—as part of a deliberate shift toward becoming a smaller, “intell...

Overview An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media about a new agentic AI called Einsteinhttps://www.learneinstein.com/. According to its developers,...

Overview Google has launched Nano Banana 2 Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, a faster, more realistic image‑generation model that is now the default across Gemini, Searc...

Report Overview New submitter sabbedehttps://tech.slashdot.org/~sabbede shares a report from CNN Politics: a sprawling Chinese influence operation—accidentally...

Release Overview Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The update introduces a new AI Settings section that allows users to disable a...

Speaking of the Citrini's blog posthttps://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic, which imagines a near‑future AI‑driven economic collapse, and which helped trigger...

An anonymous reader shares a reporthttps://www.404media.co/the-government-just-made-it-harder-to-see-what-spy-tech-it-buys/: It might look like something from t...

Background A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short‑seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading se...

New York Sues Valve For Enabling ‘Illegal Gambling’ With Loot Boxes New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in gam...

Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice‑enabled chatbot, called Patty, is part of an overarching BK A...

Background HBO Max will be cracking down on password sharing around the world. The streamer first started enforcing this policy in the United States in late Au...

Layoffs EBay is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities. From...

Overview An anonymous reader shares a report: In its 250th year, is America—the historic land of immigration—becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U....

Background An anonymous reader reports that a Cloudflare engineer implemented 94 % of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic’s Claude, spending roughly $1,100...

Report An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Uber employees have built an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi—internally dubbed “Dara AI”—and have been using...

Kalshi, the prediction‑market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an i...