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Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases — Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto (PANW.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would create a public glossary …
More: Microsoft Security Blog, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Learn, SC Media, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Cybersecurity Dive, BetaNews, BleepingComputer, and Cyber Daily
Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in debt for xAI at a double-digit interest rate, with demand already exceeding $3.5B — Vietnam's AI Ambitions Hinge on One $6.8 Billion Tech Company … Explainers| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April 2025 — Later this month, Google Wallet will no longer let users in the U.S. use their PayPal account for payments
More: Google Help Center, The Hans India, Android Police, Tech in Asia, 9to5Google, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Android Headlines, TechIssuesToday.com, Tech Times, WebProNews, and Phone Scoop. Forums: r/technology
| Thomas Ptacek / Fly: |
A software developer explains how LLMs, especially AI agents, help automate tedious coding tasks and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job loss, and more — Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.
More: Forbes, Simon Willison's Weblog, and InfoWorld
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, and Lobsters
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised $30M in donations, including from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn — Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
More: Axios, The Guardian, Time, and Bloomberg
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M — The cloud data company aims to attract customers who want to build their own artificial intelligence agents
More: Benzinga, Crunchy Data, Business Wire, VentureBeat, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, WebProNews, Maginative, PYMNTS.com, CRN, Insider Monkey, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, and Constellation Research
Bluesky: @romitmehta.com. X: @ramaswmysridhar, @aarondfrancis, @craigkerstiens, @crunchydata, @wking__, and @snowflake. Forums: Hacker News
| New York Times: |
Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers — The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
More: Bloomberg and HotAir
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened — Apparently only the Digital Markets Act can stop Bing from begging you to switch . … Microsoft's changes in response …
More: Windows Blog, XDA Developers, Neowin, Windows Central, and Thurrott
| Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: daily US users of PDD Holdings' Temu fell by 58% in May; the US closed the “de minimis” loophole on May 2, and Temu then slashed its ad spending — Daily U.S. users of PDD Holdings' (PDD.O) global discount e-commerce platform Temu fell by 58% in May … | Gregory Meyer / Financial Times: |
A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without adding staff, as analysts say its efforts raise questions about the future of US retail labor — Growth in ecommerce and automation sparks questions about future of retail sector's labour force — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …
More: The Grocer
| Virginia Furness / Reuters: |
Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments — Latvian tech company Aerones, which counts GE and Enel among its customers, has raised $62 million to fund a global roll out of robots …
More: Tech in Asia
| Maya Goldman / Axios: |
The FDA debuts an agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to find high-priority inspection targets — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday is launching an agency-wide generative AI tool aimed at helping scientific reviewers …
More: STAT, Tech in Asia, US Food and Drug …, YouTube, Reuters, and Becker's Hospital Review
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over ten years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders — Latest move comes as tech giant is attacked on multiple legal fronts that threaten its break-up| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East — HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday said it expects to log a record profit for 2025 despite uncertainties brought …
More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Hürriyet Daily News, Tech in Asia, and Focus Taiwan
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others, and was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money — Elon Musk's brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday.Sponsor Posts
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