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TechCrunch:
SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data  —  Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of …
Wired:
Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects  —  Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year  —  Following years of anticipation and months of preparation, WhatsApp today began rolling out username reservations worldwide …
NPR:
SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday further overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will.
Reuters:
Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata  —  Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web …
Christine Mui / Politico:
California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount  —  “A lot of departments are going to switch their usage to this contract, and that's very much our intent,” Chris Given, California's chief information officer …
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city  —  Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber's ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city …
James Hunt / The Block:
Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program  —  Quick Take  — Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisition last week despite raising $1.15 billion in MSTR proceeds, with its total holdings remaining at 847,363 BTC.
Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster  —  Companies to invest alongside South Korean government in factories to meet surging demand for memory chips
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX  —  Iridium's constellation of 66 satellites provides communications for 2.5 million subscribers.
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists  —  TIDAL is introducing an AI policy that will automatically tag wholly AI-generated music in its app and block it from earning royalties.
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Marc Andreessen is appointed to the DOD's Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with giving strategic advice to the defense secretary and other top officials  —  Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, the one-time Democratic supporter who switched his allegiance to Donald Trump …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO  —  Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics  —  Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project …
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Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation  —  As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and OpenAI, it is confronting a difficult challenge …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by $9M to $17M  —  Agentic coding startup Baz Technologies Inc. said today it's launching a new platform that sits between developers and the code bases they're working …
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027  —  ▌Start with my latest industry checks: The pressure on Apple has shifted from soaring memory costs to a widening supply gap.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes

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From Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast plans to spin off its media and entertainment assets, including NBCUniversal and Sky, into a new publicly traded entity, set to close by mid-2027

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Industry sources estimate Supergirl could lose $100M to $120M during its theatrical run after a $37.1M domestic and $62.6M worldwide opening weekend, below est.

Madeline Halpert / BBC:
Film director Carl Erik Rinsch, who was convicted last year of defrauding Netflix of $11M, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison

More News

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV

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Bloomberg:
Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay $625M to BT
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