• SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
• Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
• F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
• New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
• Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery
• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
• British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
• Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
• Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump
• Re-releases of Wing Commander, Ultima titles hit Steam and GOG
• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
• Earth's churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity
• Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
• Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
• FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade
• The folks behind John Wick are back with Karōshi trailer
• You know the launch market is tough when satellite companies start building rockets
• “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
• Wisconsin reports measles death of a baby, first death in over 35 years
• Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?
| • Sources: a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened (New York Times)
• In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump says the DOJ threatened a top exec at "one of the big" AI companies over "bad" activities and this "person totally changed" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
• An interview with ex-Shein Executive Chair Donald Tang who insists it was his decision to step down ahead of the troubled IPO, Shein's valuation rout, and more (Patrick Jenkins/Financial Times)
• Disney and Adobe sign a multiyear deal to build proprietary "artist-led" generative AI models with Adobe Firefly Foundry to support Disney's production pipeline (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
• Draft law: the EU's Digital Fairness Act would require companies to let adults disable addictive features and will target AI systems that simulate relationships (Bloomberg)
• Medium launches TK, an AI-powered, minimalist note-taking, journaling, and private social networking app with daily prompts, its first major launch since 2017 (David Pierce/The Verge)
• Sources: Jensen Huang hired crisis communications firm Heller as early as October 2025; an NYT report in October 2025 on his Megaspeed ties caused tensions (Lauren Goode/Wired)
• Spines, which uses AI agents to edit and proofread amateur authors' books, design their covers, and handle their layout, raised $29M in equity and $35M in debt (Assaf Gilead/Globes)
• Sources: Alice Huang and her partner pitched a Southeast Asia data center project to China-based investors in 2025, saying they had "no problem securing GPUs" (Financial Times)
• Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after an $80M Series B in March (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
• Google unveils two specialized TPUs launching in 2027: the 8tx, to be paired with an AMD CPU, and the 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
• Jensen Huang's affair raises questions about Alice Huang's access to his devices and Trump conversations, and represents "another successful op" for China's MSS (Bill Bishop/@niubi)
• Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones (Mark R. Long/Wall Street Journal)
• Meta expands its AI age estimation tech globally to apply Instagram's Teen Account protections for millions of users from 13 to 17 who misrepresented their age (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
• A profile of Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed in 2023 and spent years in Jensen Huang's orbit; Megaspeed's Nvidia imports top $4.6B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
| • Why EV fast charging slows down after 80 percent
• NHTSA investigates if Waymo robotaxis are still running school bus stop signs
• Think twice before using a webcam cover on your MacBook
• Meta is expanding AI age detection for Instagram teen accounts
• The pros and cons of using OnePlus smartwatches
• This prototype camera is fighting the good fight against AI photography
• Military radar can make your router switch Wi-Fi channels - here's why
• What hardware does your PC need to run a local AI model?
• Coinbase receives approval to become a chartered trust bank
• How to tell if your phone supports eSIM
• Nacon Revolution 5 Unlimited controller review: More customization than I can handle
• How to use your laptop as a second monitor
• Why your USB device isn't showing up on your MacBook and how you can fix it
• Which Canon Cameras Are Compatible With Its Free 3D Photo Software?
• The disadvantages of buying tech from other countries
• 10 Apple products and features that transformed under Tim Cook's leadership
• Those white cameras mounted above traffic lights serve a little-known purpose
• SpaceXAI Grok Bot availability just keeps growing - here's which plans offer it
• Should you make the switch to Google Pixel from Samsung Galaxy?
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