• The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone
• OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
• Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says
• ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers
• Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
• Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
• Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
• Skydance’s Discovery+ prices increase by up to 20 percent
• The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have
• Google wants to host your personal vibe-coded apps in the Play Store
• Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
• Apple’s first smart display is the 7-inch HomeView for $299
• They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.
• High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
• 39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
• Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
• After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
• WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"
• Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
• Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
| • Harmonic Security, which uses small language models to inspect employee interactions with AI tools, raised a $50M Series B, taking its total funding to $76M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
• US law enforcement and intel agency docs: since 2021, the FBI, DHS, and NYPD have viewed AI as both a facilitator of violent extremism and a target for attacks (The Guardian)
• The EU Commission's AI Office launches formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent hacks; experts say the AI Act includes an R&D exemption (Luca Bertuzzi/Euronews)
• Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
• Inside the making of Rockstar's GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
• Analysis: AI safety groups and individual donors have spent $48M in the midterm election cycle across bipartisan races to back candidates favoring AI regulation (Maria Curi/Axios)
• Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers disrupted Yandex's web crawlers, not Russian political bot operations, as Zelenskyy celebrated "less division" (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
• China's industrial dominance is driven by competitive local governments that act like venture capital firms, making it a continent-sized Silicon Valley (Works in Progress Magazine)
• Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research (Reuters)
• CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' "unlimited" capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
• Ukraine says SpaceX has restricted Starlink by cutting military-grade service at speeds exceeding 100mph, disrupting drone missions, and it received no warning (Yuliia Dysa/Reuters)
• Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
• Ukraine's drone attacks severely damaged three of Yandex's six data centers, disrupting Russia's tech ecosystem, centered on one vast, state-aligned company (Financial Times)
• A look at a coordinated theft of ~$100M in crypto using hardware backdoors planted in Ledger wallets sold by Malaysia-based authorized reseller CryptoBilis (Kim Zetter/ZERO DAY)
• ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing "strong interest" in orders for 2029 and 2030 (Reuters)
| • Samsung Health's sleep coaching now requires just three days of data
• CMF's first portable speakers are shaped like milk cartons and pair together
• 8BitDo Ultimate 2C review: A fabulous Switch 2 controller at a fraction of the price
• Beat the iPhone Duo pre-order rush with Apple's Get Ready tool
• People are hating on Apple Music's redesigned black-and-white logo
• Qualcomm wins lawsuit against Arm but will only receive two bucks
• Which smart TV brands offer the longest software support?
• Is Mini DisplayPort becoming obsolete?
• How to improve your online privacy and security in Google Chrome
• Apple TV 4K 2022 vs. 2026: What's new and is it worth the $100 jump?
• Are Chromebooks still worth buying after the Googlebooks release?
• 5 clever ways Gemini can automate everyday tasks
• OpenAI says it found a 'sophisticated recording device' hidden in its offices
• What is NVIDIA DLSS and how does it work?
• Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 hands-on: A look at the audio updates and Siri AI
• Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot gets a full series order from Hulu
• Don't like your Facebook feed? Meta wants to know what you want to see instead
• How the iPhone Duo's camera is different from the iPhone 18 Pro's
• Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses review: No camera, no problem
• GTA 6 is reportedly coming to PC in early 2027
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