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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 … | The Information: |
Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more — Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months.| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, Hindustan Times, Tech in Asia, AIwire, Insider Monkey, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, and The Guardian
| 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.
More: 9to5Google, MakeUseOf, The Keyword, Android Authority, SammyGuru, Ubergizmo, Chrome Unboxed, GB News, Android Police, Droid Life, CyberInsider, TechSpot, The Economic Times, Android Central, Android Developers Blog, CNET, and TechCrunch
Forums: r/Android, r/Android, r/GooglePixel, r/Android, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: Fortune, Thurrott, Tech in Asia, Engadget, Digital Trends, BGR, TVLine, Cord Cutters News, and The A.V. Club
Threads: @trevorcroker. X: @markstenberg3, @markstenberg3, and @tvgrimreaper. LinkedIn: Mark Stenberg
Forums: r/cordcutters, r/BuyCanadian, r/AmazonPrimeVideo, r/technology, r/movies, and r/television
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: Amazon Ads, Android Police, Social Media Today, MobileSyrup, and ZDNET
Forums: r/technews and Slashdot
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings — Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push …
More: Apple, Business Standard, The Mac Observer, The Verge, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, Cult of Mac, and AppleInsider
| 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 …
More: Aim Security, Simon Willison's Weblog, Digit, Cyber Security News, SiliconANGLE, SC Media, BleepingComputer, CyberInsider, and Cybersecurity Dive
Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| 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 …
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| Ricardo Brito / Reuters: |
A majority of six of the 11 judges on Brazil's Supreme Court vote to hold social media companies liable for some types of users' content seen as illegal — Brazil's Supreme Court formed a majority on Wednesday to hold social media companies accountable for some types of content published by users on their platforms in the country.
More: Bloomberg and Associated Press
| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
More: South China Morning Post, NVIDIA, Automotive News, Nvidia Newsroom, Cloud Computing News, Barron's Online, New Electronics, Associated Press, CNBC, Mercury News, Taipei Times, Investor's Business Daily, Proactive, Ukrainian National News, Reuters, Mobile World Live, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, Capacity Media, and Bloomberg
Forums: r/EU_Economics and r/artificial
| 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%.
More: Databricks and Tech in Asia
| 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 …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta adds AI video editing tools to the Edits app and Meta AI, letting users edit up to 10 seconds of a video with 50+ preset prompts, free for a “limited time” — You can transform your videos with more than 50 preset prompts in the Meta AI and Edits app.| 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.| Financial Times: |
Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average — Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system
More: Coinmonks, Coinpedia Fintech News, and BeInCrypto
| MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Amsterdam's failed experiment to create a fair welfare AI system that would evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud — This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center. — Two futures
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| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, now control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply — Centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs and public companies, now control approximately $668 billion of Bitcoin's circulating supply.| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps — As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI. — Summary4| Pedro Nakamura / Rest of World: |
How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors — At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It's frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.
Bluesky: @restofworld.org
| Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA ends the 300+ day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies — The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
The US prosecution of quant trader Richard Ho could define how quant algorithms can become stolen property and have a major impact on Wall Street's talent war — The prosecution of a trader could define how a quant algorithm can become stolen property and have a huge impact on Wall Street's talent war.
X: @alephblog
| 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
More: Benzinga, Latest from Short list, iClarified, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, On my Om, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews
X: @impatrickt, @dylanbyers, @variety, @vincenzolandino, @simsgazette, @om, @om, @maxwinebach, and @parkerortolani
Forums: r/MediaMergers, r/boxoffice, r/apple, r/tvPlus, and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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