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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
GitHub announces an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve docs, and more, and open-sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code — The AI coding agent will start working once a developer assigns it a task. … GitHub is launching an AI coding agent that can do things …
More: Microsoft, Visual Studio Code, The GitHub Blog, Microsoft, The GitHub Blog, CIO Dive, Thurrott, Reuters, Channel NewsAsia, PCWorld, Neowin, CNBC, ITPro, VentureBeat, ZDNET, and The Register
Bluesky: @papa.dev and @danwahlin
X: @satyanadella and @code
LinkedIn: John Papa, Dan Wahlin, and Paige Lord
Forums: Hacker News and r/GithubCopilot
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft open-sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in 2016, and makes it available on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components — Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows.
More: Windows Blog, Ars Technica, OSnews, The Verge, The New Stack, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Neowin, Liliputing, XDA Developers, and The Register
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Protesters disrupt Build keynote; one then emailed thousands of Microsoft coworkers calling the company's report on its tech's impact on Gaza civilians a “lie” — Microsoft employee Joe Lopez sent an email to thousands of colleagues after interrupting the Build keynote.
More: Gizmodo, Sherwood News, Digit, and DatacenterDynamics
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches an open project called NLWeb to help devs add a “conversational interface” to their website in a few lines of code — As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service — Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are both coming to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service. … I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft was getting ready to host Elon Musk's Grok AI models, and now it's official.
More: TechCrunch, CRN, The Register, PCMag, Microsoft on YouTube, GeekWire, Benzinga, MobiHealthNews, MediaPost, Techstrong.ai, Neowin, Axios, iPhone in Canada, Beebom, and Databricks
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @tomwarren.co.uk, @joshsternberg.com, and @parismarx.com. X: @rihardjarc. Forums: Hacker News
| Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: |
More: SiliconANGLE, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Microsoft Azure, TechCrunch, and Beebom. LinkedIn: Aseem Datar
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, which lets clients use NVLink to couple non-Nvidia CPUs or accelerators with Nvidia's GPUs in their rack-scale setups to boost AI — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang outlined plans to let customers deploy rivals' chips in data centers built around …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Reuters, RTÉ, Nvidia Newsroom, The Register, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, CIO Dive, Tom's Hardware, The Economic Times, Network World, NVIDIA, Tribune Online, ServeTheHome, Quartz, Channel Futures, CRN, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, TechWire Asia, Tasnim News Agency, PC Gamer, Business Insider, Constellation Research, DatacenterDynamics, Radio Free Mobile, The Decoder, CNBC, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, and NVIDIA
Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @neiltwitz, @iancutress, @benbajarin, @theaustinlyons, @iancutress, @benbajarin, @neiltwitz, and @maxwinebach. LinkedIn: Durga Malladi. Forums: r/NVDA_Stock
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says hackers breached its Legal Aid Agency to steal a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales — Hackers have stolen a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales, the UK's Ministry of Justice said.
More: GOV.UK, BBC, The Guardian, Infosecurity, Associated Press, BankInfoSecurity.com, Mirror, Hackread, BleepingComputer, ComputerWeekly.com, The Record, and Financial Times
X: @crimelinelaw, @barristerblog, @owenboswarva, and @shipleywrites. LinkedIn: Zena Bolwig. Forums: r/unitedkingdom
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS, allowing users to listen to Audio Overviews offline, interact with the AI hosts, add sources, and more — As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS ahead of I/O 2025.
More: The Keyword, MacStories, 9to5Mac, How-To Geek, PCMag, ZDNET, Android Authority, Android Police, Tom's Guide, The Verge, iClarified, Laptop Mag, SammyGuru, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Android Headlines, Android Central, Neowin, StartupNews.fyi, TestingCatalog, PhoneArena, Hackread, and iPhone in Canada. Forums: r/GooglePixel
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite — The actors union said Epic-owned Llama Productions “chose to replace the work of human performers with AI technology” …
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| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M, set to close in Q3, in the bankruptcy auction — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said it will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals …
More: Ars Technica, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 23andMe, Inc., TechCrunch, 404 Media, New York Times, The Record, ZDNET, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Washington Post, Engadget, KTVU-TV, Reuters, Mashable, Futurism, Gizmodo, New York Daily News, MarketWatch, Business Insider, Al Jazeera, New York Post, Yahoo Finance, Barron's Online, Pharmaceutical Technology, STAT, BBC, Quartz, Fast Company, Financial Times, CNBC, CyberInsider, PCMag, Inc, MedTech Dive, Proactive, ZeroHedge News, Axios, Entrepreneur, UPI, Capital Brief, and CBS News
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @michelnivard, and @jasonkoebler
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI agents and MCP, web search, NLWeb, the relationship with OpenAI, how new hardware and optimizations benefit AI, more — Today, I'm talking with Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft and one of the company's AI leaders.| Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo: |
Researchers: GPT-4 was 64.4% more persuasive than humans in one-on-one debates when given basic personal information about the person it was trying to persuade — A new study shows LLMs like Chat GPT win more debates than humans when it gets a little personal.
More: Nature Human Behaviour, The Register, MIT Technology Review, Washington Post, and The Guardian
Bluesky: @metacurity.com and @ianwalker
| Washington Post: |
Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets with 200+ facial recognition cameras for two years, seemingly defying a 2022 city ordinance — Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
More: Common Dreams. Bluesky: @willoremus.com, @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy, @washingtonpost.com, @foxcahn, @kashhill, @drewharwell.com, and @hypervisible
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/NewOrleans, and Ars OpenForum
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified — The bill sailed through Congress with a focus on deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, CBS News, Education Week, MSNBC, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Politico, Fox News, Fast Company, Daily Mail, Blaze Media, ABC News, Forbes, The Independent, Maginative, Deseret News, House Committee on Energy …, Wired, The Daily Caller, CNN, The Post Millennial, KGW News on YouTube, NBC 6 South Florida on YouTube, UPI, NBC News, Associated Press, and The 19th
Threads: @joelkaplan. X: @marshablackburn, @agalanwilson, @amyklobuchar, @bradrcarson, @ingrahamangle, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @reppatharrigan, @repnicole, @repkevinhern, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @housegop, @reprickallen, @replisamcclain, @repnancymace, @repmariasalazar, @sentedcruz, @housecommerce, @repharshbarger, @reppfluger, @meadorftc, @lagovjefflandry, and @libsoftiktok
Forums: r/technology, r/news, and r/politics
| Twinnie Siu / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Taiwan-based Apple supplier Foxconn plans to inject $1.5B into its India unit via its Singaporean subsidiary, as production shifts away from China — The Taiwan-based company said in an exchange filing on Monday that it had made the investment through its Singaporean subsidiary.
More: PCMag, Times of India, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, Apple Must, Mobile World Live, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, Business Standard, and Semafor. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| CNBC: |
Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will now let clients buy bitcoin, adding “We're not going to custody it. We're going to put it in statements for clients.” — JPMorgan Chase is finally allowing clients to buy bitcoin. But CEO Jamie Dimon is still a skeptic.| Bloomberg: |
Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent data breach at Coinbase; Coinbase says it's working with the DOJ and other law enforcement agencies — Investigators, including those in the department's criminal division in Washington, are digging into the circumstances surrounding the breach …
More: Reuters, The Block, Watcher Guru, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
| Luisa Beltran / Fortune: |
Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, seeking at least $5B, the valuation it is targeting in a potential IPO — Brian Armstrong is cofounder and CEO of Coinbase — Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the crypto stablecoin USDC … | Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: |
Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raised a $19M Series B extension led by Aramco's Wa'ed and Saudi Telecom's Tali, bringing the round total to $102M — The venture capital arms of Saudi Arabia's oil and telecom giants have invested in US tech startup Graphiant Inc. as the kingdom seeks … | Jo Borrás / Electrek: |
Chinese state-backed company Huaneng deploys 100+ all-electric autonomous haul trucks powered by Huawei's 5G-Advanced network at the Yimin open-pit mine — Powered by tech giant Huawei 5G-Advanced network, a fleet of over 100 Huaneng Ruichi all-electric autonomous haul trucks …
More: South China Morning Post and POWER Magazine
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