• Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
• Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
• Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine
• Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
• Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says
• Turning a solar power system into its own backup
• Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
• Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
• Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
• SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency
• ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
• As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
• Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
• The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
• Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
• Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
• Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
• Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
• Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
• Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
| • How a wave of startups are betting on AI to make formal software verification practical and essential, including &Truth, which launches with a $70M seed (Paresh Dave/Wired)
• TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes (Tom Westbrook/Reuters)
• Binance pledges to cover all losses from a ~$6.3B hack, potentially the largest crypto theft ever, surpassing the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025 (South China Morning Post)
• CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
• Sources: DeepSeek doubled its latest round's size due to surging black market Nvidia Blackwell chip prices, with Chinese state-owned investors representing 27% (The Information)
• S-1: Anthropic says it heavily depends on TSMC chips made in Taiwan and warns of risks from "potential disruption" amid geopolitical tensions with China (Joseph C. Sternberg/Wall Street Journal)
• Sources: Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence seeks to raise as much as $3B to fund a previously announced purchase of Nvidia Vera Rubin systems (Bloomberg)
• NYSE owner ICE plans US-regulated Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets with Trade.xyz, a market operator on the crypto platform, and takes a stake in Trade.xyz (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
• Binance "temporarily suspended" all deposits and withdrawals as it investigates security issues and works with law enforcement; Binance.US says it's unaffected (George Steer/Financial Times)
• Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.52B est., net income up 333% to $161M, and expects slower Q4 revenue growth; TWLO drops 15%+ after hours (Elias Schisgall/MarketWatch)
• Andy Jassy says Prime Video has "a revenue run rate in the tens of billions of dollars and is now profitable in its own right" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
• Meta quietly launches Style Sketch, an AI fashion app that helps users put together outfit ideas using clothes they own, in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
• On Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy says outside AI shopping agents are "still not great, nor more convenient than coming to a retailer directly" (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
• Sandisk reports Q1 revenue up 378% YoY to $11B, vs. $10.7B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., announces an 8-for-1 stock split; SNDK drops 4%+ after hours (MarketWatch)
• Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.17B, vs. $1.21B est., global MAUs up 10% to 661M, and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 8%+ after hours (Liz Moyer/Barron's Online)
| • General Motors agrees to pay $220 million to settle multi-state data privacy lawsuit
• Sony is working on a film adaptation of viral indie horror game Mouthwashing
• Meta is testing 'Threads Friends' for sharing posts with smaller groups
• VRChat says it's not adding AI labels despite user survey showing people want that
• Fan fiction website AO3 is down, and it could take weeks to recover
• Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic
• Google fixes an annoying Photos bug that hid edited images from other apps
• Google brings AI Mode advertisements to more countries
• Popcorn bucket innovation is at an all-time low and the Dune: Part Three 'Double Sandworm' is proof
• Hacker may have stolen millions in a malware attack against online poker players
• Netflix is making a live-action PUBG show written and directed by Donald Glover
• Don't expect more Assassin's Creed remakes anytime soon
• NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a Chinese government spy
• Meta will now alert parents if teens 'repeatedly' search for self-harm content on Facebook
• ThermoWorks debuts shorter version of its RFX Meat wireless probe for small cuts
• FromSoftware delays The Duskbloods until 2027
• DoorDash acquires Instacart in $17 billion delivery service merger
• EasySMX S10 Lite review: A Switch 2 fidget toy with a weird removable faceplate
• Apple and Google fined in South Korea over app store violations
• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurity
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