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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 New Stack, The GitHub Blog, Microsoft, The GitHub Blog, Thurrott, Reuters, CIO Dive, PCWorld, The Register, Channel NewsAsia, ZDNET, VentureBeat, Neowin, CNBC, and ITPro
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, The Register, XDA Developers, BetaNews, Neowin, Liliputing, and Phoronix
| 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, GeekWire, PCMag, Benzinga, MobiHealthNews, MediaPost, Techstrong.ai, Axios, Neowin, iPhone in Canada, Beebom, Databricks, and StartupNews.fyi
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @tomwarren.co.uk, @joshsternberg.com, and @parismarx.com. Forums: Hacker News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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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, PYMNTS.com, The Register, Wall Street Journal, CIO Dive, Tom's Hardware, Network World, The Economic Times, NVIDIA, Quartz, Tribune Online, ServeTheHome, CNBC, Channel Futures, CRN, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, TechWire Asia, Tasnim News Agency, PC Gamer, Business Insider, Constellation Research, DatacenterDynamics, Radio Free Mobile, The Decoder, NVIDIA, ddnews.gov.in, Neowin, The Information, CTech, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, NVIDIA, and The Hindu BusinessLine
Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @benbajarin, @iancutress, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, @maxwinebach, @benbajarin, @iancutress, and @theaustinlyons. LinkedIn: Durga Malladi. Forums: r/NVDA_Stock
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Semafor, NVIDIA, Engadget, NVIDIA, The Economic Times, Verdict, Tom's Hardware, TipRanks Financial, HotHardware, Automotive World, Forbes, Techstrong.ai, DatacenterDynamics, MarketWatch, WinBuzzer, TNGlobal, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, NVIDIA, Nikkei Asia, NVIDIA, NVIDIA, and Investopedia
| 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
| 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: TechCrunch, 23andMe, Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., 404 Media, The Record, The Verge, ZDNET, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Engadget, Associated Press, KTVU-TV, New York Times, Reuters, Gizmodo, New York Daily News, MarketWatch, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Al Jazeera, New York Post, Barron's Online, UPI, Fast Company, Pharmaceutical Technology, STAT, BBC, Quartz, Financial Times, CNBC, CyberInsider, PCMag, Inc, MedTech Dive, Proactive, ZeroHedge News, Axios, Entrepreneur, Capital Brief, CBS News, Fox Business, NewsNation, and Investor's Business Daily
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.
More: Reuters, Windows Central, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, MobileSyrup, and Analytics India Magazine
Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @reckless
| 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
| 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.| 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: @kashhill, @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy, @willoremus.com, @washingtonpost.com, @foxcahn, @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, USA Today, Washington Examiner, Politico, Fox News, Fast Company, Daily Mail, ABC News, Forbes, The Independent, Blaze Media, Wired, Maginative, Deseret News, House Committee on Energy …, Associated Press, CNN, KGW News on YouTube, The Post Millennial, NBC 6 South Florida on YouTube, UPI, NBC News, and The 19th
Threads: @joelkaplan. X: @ingrahamangle, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @reppatharrigan, @repnicole, @repkevinhern, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @housegop, @reprickallen, @replisamcclain, @repnancymace, @repmariasalazar, @sentedcruz, @housecommerce, @repharshbarger, @reppfluger, @meadorftc, @lagovjefflandry, and @libsoftiktok
Forums: 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: iThinkDifferent, Times of India, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, Apple Must, Mobile World Live, MacRumors, Semafor, and Business Standard. 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, and CoinGape
| 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
| Chris Thomas / Android Police: |
Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 foldable with some in-progress shipments reversed, amid rumors of fire hazards and quarantines of in-store stock — I went hands-on with Motorola's three new Razrs, and they're familiar, fashionable, and deeply frustrating — Read update
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Central, and TalkAndroid.com
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