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Citizen Lab details two spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the SS7 and Diameter protocols across 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks to track people's locations — Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people's locations.
More: The Citizen Lab, Wired, The Record, Cyber Security News, TechRadar, CyberScoop, Reuters, and CyberInsider
| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value — The president's address touched on everything from the war in Iran to his policies supporting the crypto industry
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| Theo Baker / The Atlantic: |
A look at “Stanford inside Stanford”, where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit — Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds. — When i was a freshman at Stanford University … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Report: Samsung co-CEO TM Roh told company leaders that the mobile division MX could report its first ever annual loss this year, amid RAM and storage shortages — As AI continues to eat up the market's RAM output, smartphones are in crisis as costs continue to skyrocket.
More: TechSpot, SammyGuru, Android Authority, SamMobile, Ars Technica, and GSMArena.com
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on Monday, accusing Altman of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl between Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to court in Northern California … | Russell Contreras / Axios: |
How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more — The Vatican is racing to build digital defenses for the artificial intelligence era — and quietly positioning itself as a global referee of what's real.
More: Inc. Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @durumcrustulum.com, @russcontreras, and @drdeathanddivinity. Forums: Hacker News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel's upbeat outlook suggests CEO Lip-Bu Tan is making progress on a turnaround, having strengthened the company's balance sheet and now improving operations — Intel's Strong AI-Fueled Forecast Tops Estimates — Intel Corp. shares hit a record high after the chipmaker delivered …
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| Bloomberg: |
The value of US government's stake in Intel has increased fourfold to ~$36B, since an August 2025 announcement that the US will buy a stake worth $8.9B — The value of the US government stake in Intel Corp. has increased fourfold to hit a value of about $36 billion after the chipmaker's financial outlook showed a resurgence in sales.
More: Implicator.ai, The Next Web, and Irish Independent
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use — The Tin Can has gone viral over the past year, mostly through word of mouth. Now schools want to get even more of them in students' homes.| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's economic crackdown on China's US interests is creating opportunities for a Utah-based intelligence firm| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details Project Deal, a marketplace experiment where Claude models bought, sold, and negotiated personal belongings on behalf of Anthropic employees — At Anthropic, we're interested in how AI models could begin to affect commercial exchange. (You might recall Project Vend …
More: TechCrunch and The Decoder
| PYMNTS.com: |
Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants, for €750M, expected to close in H2 2026 — Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a platform for loyalty and incentives that serves more than 300 global merchants …
More: Adyen, FinTech Global, The Paypers, Finovate, and American Banker
| Bloomberg: |
A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI — A $16 billion financing for a giant Oracle Corp. data center in Michigan has wrapped after months of stop-and-start negotiations with investors.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing … Sponsor Posts
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