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• Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
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• VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
• AMD's record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
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• Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
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• Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
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• The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
• California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
• Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
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• United Airlines is rolling out a custom native Spotify seatback app across its fleet, letting users log into their accounts, powered by Starlink's Wi-Fi (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• Apple rolls out Retention Messaging, letting developers present personalized text, images, or special offers to users who are canceling their subscriptions (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
• Agility Robotics is set to begin trading on the Nasdaq under AGLT after a SPAC merger, the first dedicated humanoid robotics company to go public in the US (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
• Sources detail Dario Amodei's AI beliefs, shaped by forums like GiveWell and based on EA and "rationalism", and his disputes with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (New York Times)
• Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust for improved speed and memory safety; its CTO shares an image of the Windows app using just 290MB of RAM (Tom Warren/The Verge)
• Sources: Micron suspends construction of its $3B to $4.5B Fab 11E facility in Taiwan, set for 2028, due to mounting uncertainties over a local labor dispute (Bloomberg)
• Amazon partners with Uber to make Uber Eats the "official" US restaurant delivery partner for Amazon Prime subscribers, after previously partnering with Grubhub (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• Study: UK consumer AI spending passes £1B annually, with 5.1% of adults paying for subscriptions as of July 2026; Claude is rapidly catching up to ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
• X is rolling out a redesigned web app country by country for signed-in users, with a single unified server, saying it improves load times over slow connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Sources: at Jensen Huang's midterms event, tech executives expressed concern over anti-data center results; OpenAI discussed resetting its 2027 capacity plans (Wall Street Journal)
• Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is "close to zero", arguing that future AI risks stem from closed frontier AI labs, not open-source systems (Will Knight/Wired)
• Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60 per 1M output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
• Nintendo reports Q2 net profit down 16% YoY to $468M, as rising Switch 2 component costs cut into its margins; Switch 2's H1 FY 2027 sales fell 37% YoY to 6.49M (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
• An interview with two Nintendo producers on the new Ocarina of Time remake for the Switch 2, which features modern gameplay mechanics like full camera control (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
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• Spotify is coming to United's seatback screens
• OpenAI says it will protect local resources and report on the impact of its data centers
• Amazon teams with Uber Eats for new Prime perks
• Switch 2 sales fell by almost 40 percent after Nintendo increased prices
• Sony is selling more PS5 games but still struggling to meet console demand
• Snap has more than 30 million paid subscribers across Snapchat+ and other plans
• Pangram expands its AI detection tools to video and images
• Xbox is testing two new controller options for Cloud Gaming
• Nintendo's main Switch cartridge supplier is leaving the ROM business
• God of War Laufey is delayed until May 20
• Redditor uses AI to get Switch games running natively on Apple TV
• Bluetooth is going to get a lot faster in 2027
• Elon Musk spent nearly $500 million on the midterms and lost big-time
• Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms
• Apple Music's upcoming feature will let you record yourself doing karaoke
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