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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the company resumed talks with its union and a court partially granted an injunction against illegal union actions  —  Samsung Electronics Co.'s shares climbed more than 6% after its union signaled a willingness to negotiate and a local court granted …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable”  —  Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
John Markoff / New York Times:
Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93  —  For decades, he criticized the industry's lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy.  And he developed solutions.
Alessandra Ram / Wired:
How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses  —  Are you married to a man who's obsessed with AI?  I'm so, so sorry.  —  If i had to listen to another minute …
Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider:
Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs  —  - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the University of Arizona's commencement address this year.
Theo Baker / New York Times:
A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything”  —  At Stanford University, where I am a senior, tech chief executives are something like rock stars.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela  —  Regulators are seeking information from Kalshi and Polymarket over wagers tied to political events and military operations
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals  —  The pieces are coming together for AWS's AI strategy, thanks to $200 billion in spending, custom chips and savvy deals
Jamie John / Financial Times:
Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI  —  ‘Bug bounty’ programmes have seen a jump in spurious AI-generated submissions  —  Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software …

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From Mediagazer

Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
US officials discussed firing Stars & Stripes publisher Max Lederer ahead of his Sept. 30 retirement, which was provoked by differences with the Trump admin

Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
A look at upcoming changes to 60 Minutes under Nick Bilton, including making greater use of its archive and potentially turning interviews into podcasts

Uyiosa Elegon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Prism and other nonprofit outlets that focus on “movement journalism” and exposing injustice are struggling with funding as the Trump administration targets DEI

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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing
Alison Weissbrot / Adweek:
Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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