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Many npm packages for Mistral, UiPath, and TanStack's web developer tools like react-router were compromised, likely in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.
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Bluesky: @samwho.dev, @campuscodi.risky.biz, and @mk.gg
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/reactjs
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Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it gave in return — Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given … | CNBC: |
Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk v. Altman trial on Monday, where he testified that Elon Musk never contacted …
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Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration — Today, we're announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
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| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News: |
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
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| Assaf Gilead / Globes: |
Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel — Alon Haimovich is leaving after an investigation into alleged unethical use of Azure by the Ministry of Defense, “Globes” has learned.
More: PC Gamer. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/UpliftingNews, and r/microsoft
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 — Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
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Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met — OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has plenty of things to worry about. But paying OpenAI's early backer Microsoft …
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Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March — Digg is back from the dead. Again. — Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose's once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course.
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| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models — The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website about its agreement with Google, xAI and Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models …
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GitLab announces layoffs, saying they are “not an AI optimization or cost cutting exercise”, and plans to cut the number of countries it operates in — GitLab Inc., which makes software that helps developers on coding projects, said it is cutting jobs to free up money to spend …
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Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company's AI leaderboard
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The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review — Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it is investigating, and six GOP state attorneys general are calling for SEC review after WSJ article| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing. The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features to Apple Maps, and more.
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, r/UniversalProfile, r/UniversalProfile, r/Android, and r/apple
| Jeremy Stern / Colossus: |
Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin coding agent, and more — An afternoon with Cognition founder and nerd emperor Scott Wu … There is a familiar arc to the type of mathematical genius … | David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources say the cuts will affect 500 to 600 staff — General Motors Co. plans to cut hundreds of salaried workers from its information technology ranks in an effort to trim costs …
More: Silicon Republic, CNBC, TechCrunch, Blockonomi, Quartz, Detroit Free Press, and The Autopian
Forums: Hacker News, r/GeneralMotors, and Slashdot
| Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug.
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X: @johnhultquist, @johnhultquist, @stvemillertime, @jamieantisocial, @dinodaizovi, @kevinbankston, @zeffmax, @thehackersnews, @mikeisaac, @johnhultquist, @johnhultquist, and @johnhultquist. LinkedIn: Francis deSouza. Bluesky: @rustybrick.com. Forums: Hacker News
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