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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
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Bluesky: @nintendeal.com and @theverge.com
X: @littlemacmainko, @lilal85855, @cecianasta, @wario64, @gprime85, @parkerortolani, @genepark, @snazzylabs, @genepark, @rhyssullivan, @videophile, @genepark, @yoiiikeorange, @stealth40k, @genepark, @genepark, @desgamesyt, @tripperhead, @philofsurprises, @gaming_leaker, @jrozner, @ordinarygamers, and @scottthewoz. Forums: r/NintendoSwitch
| 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: TechCrunch and GlobeNewswire News Room
| 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, The Mac Observer, and MacTech.com
| 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: The Verge, TechSpot, AV Club, and Newcomer
Bluesky: @hypervisible, @darrenmooney, @drewharwell.com, @mollytempleton.com, @thelincoln, and @pabastien. X: @great_katzby
Forums: r/Fauxmoi, r/aiwars, r/boxoffice, r/movies, r/blankies, and Slashdot
| Emine Saner / The Guardian: |
Some creatives and academics are rejecting generative AI at work and at home on environmental and ethical grounds, but realize they may end up using it anyway — Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone's jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
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: Reuters, The Verge, The Guardian, Digit, Decrypt, Robotics & Automation News, Mashable, Tech Funding News, Android Headlines, Blockchain.News, Benzinga, Electrek, SiliconValley.com, Verdict, and ABC7
Bluesky: @hypervisible, @carlquintanilla, and @chicagomike
X: @jakehalloran1 and @sawyermerritt
Forums: r/technology and r/UPSers
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition — Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker …
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, Thurrott, GamesIndustry.biz, Bloomberg, United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, 9to5Mac, The Hans India, CNBC, PCMag, Cult of Mac, Fortune, MacDailyNews, Neowin, Tech in Asia, Spyglass, The Overspill, The Mac Observer, PocketGamer.biz, MacStories, MacTech.com, iDownloadBlog.com, The Information, iPhone in Canada, and AppleInsider
Bluesky: @hilli.tech. Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. X: @timsweeneyepic, @markgurman, @drbarnard, @mgsiegler, @leehepner, @megangra, @timsweeneyepic, @rjonesy, @fnmnews, @reuterslegal, @erikgroset, @drbarnard, @jason_kint, @sayreevan, @timsweeneyepic, and @timsweeneyepic
| 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: WinBuzzer and ZDNET
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @markriedl, @askbillmitchell, and @badinternet.oracularhades.com
X: @deadalnix, @fonnesbaek, @mrchrisellis, @elomaur, @aarushsah_, @kepano, and @kepano
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/LocalLLaMA, r/privacy, r/OpenAI, r/artificial, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Circle priced its IPO at $31 per share, above its marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at ~$6.9B, or ~$8.1B fully diluted — The firm and backers including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire sold 34 million shares Wednesday for $31 each …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached user data licensing deals with OpenAI and Google — The online discussion forum says Anthropic continued to access its site over 100,000 times after saying it stopped
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X: @andrewcurran_, @jaminball, @shiringhaffary, @xlr8harder, @andrewarruda, @essobi, @luke_metro, and @alexjc
Forums: r/technology, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/SEO, r/technology, r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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, Cybersecurity …, SC Media, Forbes, Tech Monitor, CyberInsider, Cyber Security News, and The Register
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more — Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, and Enterprise — OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recordings …
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X: @openai, @kevinweil, @openai, @kevinweil, @dharmesh, @levie, @thezvi, @openai, and @openai. Forums: Slashdot
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Quartz. Bluesky: @carnage4life, @elkmovie, and @alexeheath.com. X: @omooretweets. Forums: r/technews
| Shannon Bond / NPR: |
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, including four that likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries — Chinese propagandists are using ChatGPT to write posts and comments on social media sites — and also to create performance reviews detailing … | 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, 9to5Mac, XiaomiTime, SamMobile, The Register, Silicon UK, Moneycontrol, Reuters, CNET, MacTech.com, SammyGuru, and TheStreet
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta reveals more information about its research glasses Aria Gen 2, including their form factor, computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute — Aria Gen 2 is designed to help ‘shape the next computing platform’ with advanced eye- and hand-tracking capabilities.
More: Meta, Android Headlines, Mashable, Wareable, The Decoder, Tech Times, Business Standard, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today
| Bloomberg: |
Wise says it plans to shift main listing from London to New York, the latest blow to London's stock market, and 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: Reuters, Financial Times, Fortune, Finextra, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, UKTN, The Times, The Guardian, The Paypers, CNBC, The Independent, MoneyWeek, The Standard, Tech in Asia, and Telegraph
X: @griffitha, @paulonoggy, @mrmbrown, @aarmstrong_says, and @linasbeliunas
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback — Yesterday, 9to5Mac exclusively preported a handful of iOS 26 features that Apple has been working on and may announce on WWDC for its native apps.
More: The Sun, Business Standard, MacRumors, PCMag, Tom's Guide, KnowTechie, Wareable, Digit, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gizchina.com, GSMArena.com, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, BGR, The Verge, and AppleInsider. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
OnePlus unveils the $700+ OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a <6mm thick body, 17 hours of battery life, and LCD display — Three generations into its Pad lineup, OnePlus is still trying to stand out in a market dominated by a few players.
More: Moneycontrol, Mirror, HotHardware, PCMag, Tech Advisor, Business Standard, 9to5Google, ZDNET, The Verge, TalkAndroid.com, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Wired, Tom's Guide, Droid Life, Android Headlines, Trusted Reviews, 9to5Toys, SlashGear, Lifewire, iPhone in Canada, CGMagazine, Stuff, Expert Reviews, Pocket-lint, T3, Digit, and GSMArena.com
| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
23andMe plans to hold a new auction for its DNA data, opening with a $305M bid led by Anne Wojcicki, after the ex-CEO challenged Regeneron's winning bid in May — Bankrupt genetic analysis company 23andMe will hold a second auction for its cache of DNA data with an opening bid of $305 million …
More: Wall Street Journal and Reuters
| 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 … | Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
OatFi, whose APIs handle underwriting, origination, and capital deployment for B2B payment providers, raised a $24M Series A led by White Star Capital — OatFi, a startup providing an embedded working capital financing infrastructure, has raised $24 million in Series A funding, CEO Michael Barbosa tells Axios exclusively.
More: Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, Finextra, FinTech Global, The Paypers, VC News Daily, and Tech in Asia
| Aanu Adeoye / Financial Times: |
A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M+ from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M+ registered users, and aims to be “super app” — Chinese-backed payment app has focused on customers excluded by traditional banks, growing to 35mn users
More: TechCrunch
| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Source: Apple expands its Tata partnership in India by assigning it the iPhone and MacBook after-sales repair business, taking over from Taiwan's Wistron — Apple has brought in Tata Group to handle repairs for iPhones and MacBook devices in its fast-growing Indian market …
More: Business Today and AppleInsider
| Karen Gilchrist / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: Temu's US DAUs fell 52% in May compared to March, while Shein's dropped 25%, amid the US' China tariffs and the closure of “de minimis” loophole — Use of low-cost e-commerce giants Temu and Shein has slowed significantly in the key U.S. market amid President Donald Trump's tariffs …
More: Tech in Asia
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