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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with midnight store openings and long queues; analysts expect it to sell 15M to 20M units, in line with its FY guidance — Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand
More: PCMag, Kotaku, ProModding on YouTube, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Nintendo Life on YouTube, Club386, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Austin John Plays on YouTube, JerryRigEverything on YouTube, GamesIndustry.biz, VentureBeat, Spyglass, 9to5Toys, Business Insider, Gameranx, Nintendo Life, Tom's Guide, Cryptopolitan, TheGamer, Mashable, Irish News, VentureBeat, BBC, 9to5Toys, GoNintendo, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @nintendeal.com and @theverge.com
X: @wario64, @littlemacmainko, @lilal85855, @nintendoamerica, @jmhorp, @qwik, @nintendoamerica, @qwik, @gprime85, @parkerortolani, @cecianasta, @genepark, @snazzylabs, @genepark, @rhyssullivan, @videophile, @genepark, @yoiiikeorange, @stealth40k, @genepark, @genepark, @desgamesyt, @tripperhead, @philofsurprises, @mattwhitedev, @gaming_leaker, @jrozner, @ordinarygamers, and @scottthewoz
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data tied to thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content — Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Reclaim The Net, and The Mac Observer
Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange and @josephcox@infosec.exchange
X: @zsk and @samfbiddle
| Lila Shapiro / Vulture: |
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use — “We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
More: Forbes, The Verge, The Hollywood Gossip, and TechSpot
Bluesky: @hypervisible, @darrenmooney, @drewharwell.com, @mollytempleton.com, @thelincoln, and @pabastien. X: @great_katzby
Forums: r/indepthstories, r/Fauxmoi, r/aiwars, r/boxoffice, r/movies, r/blankies, and Slashdot
| Emine Saner / The Guardian: |
Bluesky: @carolinejmolloy, @joelhs, @eicathomefinn, @michaelmhughes, and @hypervisible. Mastodon: @emilymbender@dair …
| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is developing software for package delivery humanoid robots and is almost done building an indoor “humanoid park” in San Francisco to test them — Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers …
More: The Verge, Reuters, PCMag, Insider Monkey, Techstrong.ai, RetailWire, The Guardian, The US Sun, Digit, Mashable, Tech Funding News, Newser, Sherwood News, TechSpot, Decrypt, Android Headlines, Sourcing Journal, Electrek, Benzinga, Blockchain.News, Robotics & Automation News, Verdict, SiliconValley.com, and ABC7
Bluesky: @carlquintanilla, @hypervisible, and @chicagomike
X: @sawyermerritt and @jakehalloran1
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/UPSers, and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro and says its Elo scored jumped by 24 points to 1470 and it leads on coding benchmarks like Aider Polyglot — Google today released an “upgraded preview” of Gemini 2.5 Pro that will soon be generally available in the coming weeks.
More: The Keyword, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Android Central, The Decoder, Neowin, and Research & Development World
X: @sundarpichai, @bindureddy, @officiallogank, @modestproposal1, @miles_brundage, @lmarena_ai, @ai_for_success, and @kylebrussell. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet — Tensions between the competing factions of Donald Trump's ever-growing crypto empire are ramping up, with a company owned in part …
More: The Block, Citation Needed, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, and Wired
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Cellebrite acquires Florida-based Corellium, which makes phone virtualization tools, for $170M; founder Chris Wade, who Trump pardoned in 2020, will stay as CTO — Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement's favorite cellphone forensics business.
More: CyberScoop, TechCrunch, Insider Monkey, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Shannon Bond / NPR: |
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, four of which likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries and topics — Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing …
More: Wall Street Journal, OpenAI, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Neowin, Reuters, and Cryptopolitan
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
An Apple-funded study says developers using the App Store generated $1.3T globally in billings and sales in 2024, 90% on which developers paid no commission — Ahead of its Worldwide Developer Conference on June 9, Apple on Thursday offered a new update on its global App Store business … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say that the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached ~900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x since October 2023 — In an update to a joint advisory with CISA and the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the FBI said that the Play ransomware gang …
More: The Record, CISA, HotHardware, Cybersecurity Dive, SC Media, CyberInsider, Tech Monitor, Cyber Security News, Forbes, and The Register. LinkedIn: Wayne Shaw
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more — Anthropic says it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. — The new models, a custom set of …
More: The Verge, Anthropic, SiliconANGLE, FedScoop, Fortune, Nextgov/FCW, Maginative, and implicator.ai
| Bloomberg: |
Cursor maker Anysphere raised $900M led by Thrive at a $9.9B valuation, bringing its total funding to $1B+ and says its annualized revenue crossed $500M — The artificial intelligence rush has enabled some small startups to grow very big very quickly. But by some estimates … | Dario Amodei / New York Times: |
Anthropic CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is “far too blunt an instrument” and calls for US federal transparency standards for AI companies — Picture this: You give a bot notice that you'll shut it down soon, and replace it with a different artificial intelligence system.
More: Reuters, Ars Technica, The Hill, CryptoSlate, Sherwood News, Quartz, and Livemint
Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @dankennedy.net, and @kylierobison.com. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @jackclarksf. LinkedIn: Marc Rotenberg. Forums: Slashdot
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Shares of Circle jumped 124%, opening at $69.50 on the NYSE, after the stablecoin company raised almost $1.1B in an IPO — Shares of Circle Internet Group soared 124% after the stablecoin company and its selling shareholders raised almost $1.1 billion in an initial public offering.
More: Crunchbase News, Blockworks, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Associated Press, Reuters, Unchained, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Times of India, crypto.news, Benzinga, Semafor, American Banker, New York Post, The Crypto Times, CryptoNinjas, Investor's Business Daily, Bitcoin Insider, Proactive, CoinGape, Ledger Insights, Fast Company, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoPotato, Inside Bitcoins, Tech in Asia, DL News, Cryptopolitan, The Information, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the “tides have turned” in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts — There's long existed a “silent majority” who wanted to pursue defense projects, Bosworth said during an interview …
More: Mercury News, Business Insider, Neowin, and Tech in Asia
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Source: X is piloting a program to use Community Notes to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree — Elon Musk's X is piloting a new program to use its Community Notes feature to highlight posts where people of typically differing opinions actually agree with each other, Axios has learned.| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Court filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 order requiring it to save all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, “to protect its users' data and privacy” — OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through …
More: Mashable, WinBuzzer, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @markriedl, @askbillmitchell, and @badinternet.oracularhades.com
X: @kepano, @deadalnix, @fonnesbaek, @mrchrisellis, @elomaur, @aarushsah_, and @kepano. LinkedIn: Steve Karam
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/LocalLLaMA, r/privacy, r/OpenAI, r/artificial, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise — Signal is Microsoft's response to a world of noise and ephemeral content. … Of all the many ways Microsoft could mark its 50th anniversary … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Counterpoint revises its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% YoY, down from 4.2%, citing “renewed uncertainties surrounding US tariffs” — Forecasts for Apple and Samsung shipment growth this year were sharply slashed by Counterpoint Research on Wednesday amid uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy.
More: Counterpoint Research, XiaomiTime, SamMobile, The Register, Silicon UK, Moneycontrol, Reuters, CNET, MacTech.com, and SammyGuru
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 — The latest capital injection and increased valuation — up from $14 billion last year — underscores how quickly the company is establishing itself … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using “the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model” — Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates — President Donald Trump on Thursday called Elon Musk “CRAZY” and threatened to cut his companies' government contracts …
More: NBC News, Mediaite, and Axios
X: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @repcasar, @film_girl, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @binarybits, @pitdesi, @tracyalloway, @jason, @elonmusk, @thestalwart, @pourmecoffee, @bocxtop, @danprimack, @pitdesi, and @elonmusk
Forums: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/politics, and r/RealTesla
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
OnePlus unveils the $700+ OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet less than 6mm thick, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 17+ hours of battery life, and an LCD — Three generations into its Pad lineup, OnePlus is still trying to stand out in a market dominated by a few players.
More: Business Standard, ZDNET, How-To Geek, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Gizmodo, TalkAndroid.com, PhoneArena, Moneycontrol, T3, Digit, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, MobileSyrup, Trusted Reviews, Droid Life, Wired, Expert Reviews, Mirror, Tech Advisor, Lifewire, iPhone in Canada, Tom's Guide, Stuff, PCMag, Android Headlines, The Verge, HotHardware, Android Authority, 9to5Toys, CGMagazine, AndroidGuys, and GSMArena.com. LinkedIn: Spenser Blank
| Bloomberg: |
Wise says it plans to shift its main listing from London to NYC, the latest loss for London's stock market, but will maintain a secondary listing on the LSE — Wise Plc is planning to list its shares in the US, the latest blow to London's stock market. — While the fintech will maintain …
More: Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Tech.eu, The Guardian, CNBC, Silicon UK, American Banker, The Paypers, The Independent, Fortune, MoneyWeek, The Times, Reuters, UKTN, and Telegraph
X: @griffitha, @paulonoggy, @mrmbrown, @aarmstrong_says, and @linasbeliunas
| Matthew Gault / Wired: |
How AI-assisted “vibe hacking”, which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity “arms race” — In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
23andMe plans to hold a second auction for its DNA data, opening with a $305M bid led by Anne Wojcicki, after the ex-CEO challenged Regeneron's winning May bid — Bankrupt genetic analysis company 23andMe will hold a second auction for its cache of DNA data with an opening bid of $305 million … | Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India, giving Tata the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business from an Indian unit of Taiwan-based Wistron — Apple has brought in Tata Group to handle repairs for iPhones and MacBook devices in its fast-growing Indian market …
More: AppleInsider, Business Today, Wall Street Pit, and MacDailyNews
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