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July 6, 2026, 2:35 AM

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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation  —  Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer …
New York Times:
Analysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer  —  A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money …
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays  —  My latest industry survey indicates that assembly shipments for the foldable iPhone in 2H26 will be roughly 7-8 million units …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement  —  Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts  —  Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers …
Eli Tan / New York Times:
A look at Threads and Q&A with its head Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with its focus on community features  —  Meta's office in San Francisco.  Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times
More: ReutersLinkedIn: Connor HayesThreads: @conno_r, @matthewfacciani, @karaswisher, @philfung, and @ngorby
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO  —  Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaking champion Shanghai Biren Technology is raising HK$7 billion (US$892.5 million) …
John Keilman / Wall Street Journal:
How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability  —  Companies say electronics, sensors and engineering will allow the robots to work alongside people  —  Humanoid robots marched through …
More: TechCrunch

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