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June 12, 2025, 4:35 AM
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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests  —  An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure …
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Android 16 review: live updates and Advanced Protection are nice, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive design won't come until later in 2025  —  After months of speculation and beta testing, Google is rolling out Android 16 starting today.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed  —  Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company, accusing it of copyright infringement …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Sources and documents: Amazon Prime Video's ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024  —  More ads could mean lower CPMs, but performance could slip.  —  When Amazon introduced ads on Prime Video in January 2024 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, is expected to join Meta's “superintelligence” team, as well as an ML lead from Sesame AI  —  Jack Rae, a principal researcher at Google DeepMind, is expected to join Meta's “superintelligence” team …
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Researchers find the first known “zero-click” attack on an AI agent; the now-fixed flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot would let a hacker attack a user via an email  —  Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI tool built into Microsoft Office workplace applications including Word, Excel, Outlook …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash  —  The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment …
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Stripe agrees to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025  —  Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed.  —  Privy helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences.
Reuters:
Nvidia plans to build its first industrial AI cloud platform in Germany for European manufacturers, combining AI with robotics to assist carmakers like BMW  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) will build its first artificial intelligence cloud platform for industrial applications in Germany …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Some domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the US CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing website  —  Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site.
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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $15.9B, vs. $15.59B est., cloud revenue up 27% YoY, signals strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth; ORCL jumps 6%+  —  Oracle shares rose about 8% in extended trading on Wednesday after the software maker reported results that exceeded Wall Street estimates …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones  —  Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
An interview with Craig Federighi on the new multitasking UI in iPadOS 26, problems with Stage Manager, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long  —  Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long.  —  CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Databricks says it expects to generate $3.7B in annualized revenue by July, up 50% YoY, with nearly 50 of its 15,000+ customers spending over $10M annually  —  Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July, with year-over-year growth of 50%.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing  —  Tentative deal reached in London gives China leverage in trade talks  —  China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses …
Bloomberg:
President Trump says a trade framework with China “is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me”, and the US' tariff rate would be 55% “total”

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Catherine McGrath / Fortune:
London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal is named CEO of the Polygon Foundation after the departure of Mihailo Bjelic, and unveils changes to streamline the nonprofit

Earlier Picks

David Pierce / The Verge:
The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Will Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple's legal case against the UK Home Office over an encryption backdoor, which “could set a dangerous precedent”
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass ranges from slick to slightly overwrought, and Spotlight's new search features are nifty and useful, but Raycast is better
Ben Hylak / Latent.Space:
OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires a lot of context to run well and without enough it tends to overthink
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to push companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site; it worked
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it sold 3.5M+ Switch 2s globally in the console's first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026
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