Tech

EU regulators order Meta to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to probe if Meta abused its market power by blocking competitors (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-10 AI chatbot WhatsApp

Meta plans to expand the use of off-platform data, such as e-commerce purchases, from serving ads to personalize content feeds and AI responses (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-10 AI

UK PM Gives Tech Firms Ultimatum To Block Explicit Images on Children's Phones (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-10

New Veeam vulnerability exposes backup servers to RCE attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-10

Sources: India froze Starlink approvals to begin commercial operations due to concerns over the use of its terminals in Iran despite not being licensed there (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-10 India Iran

China starts operations of the world's first wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai coast, and says it uses 20% less power than land-based facilities (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-10 China Shanghai

Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20M Series A led by Jump Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-6-9 Equity

Decentralized lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, and a16z Crypto in a token sale valuing Morpho at up to $2B (fortune.com)
2026-6-9 Decentralize

Apple unveils new Apple Foundation Models: two on-device models, including a 20B-parameter multimodal model called AFM 3 Core Advanced, and three cloud models (machinelearning.apple.com)
2026-6-9 Apple

New York-based Standard Bots, which wants to make AI-powered robotic arms in the US, raised $200M led by General Catalyst and Robostrategy at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9 AI Robot New York

French govt messaging service breached in account hijacking attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9 France

Mac users, PDF Expert is just $70 for life through June 14 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9

The EU says Apple decided not to roll out Siri AI in the EU after it had unsuccessfully requested to be exempted from interoperability obligations for the tool (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-9 AI Apple

Tests Suggest Russian Satellites Can Jam GPS On a Continental Scale (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-9 Russia GPS

Sources: Taiwan considers restricting AI chip sales to all Chinese customers, rather than only blacklisted entities like Huawei, to align with US measures (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9 China Taiwan AI

Sources: Microsoft laid off 200 to 400 Azure unit employees in Beijing and Shanghai, at least its third round of downsizing in China in two years (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-9 China Microsoft Shanghai

CISA gives feds 3 days to patch Check Point VPN bug exploited as zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9 VPN

Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9 Google Chrome

Sources: China is drafting plans to spend $295B over the next five years on building AI data centers, sourcing 80%+ of tech from local suppliers like Huawei (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9 China AI

France-based Alta Ares, which is building AI-powered air defense systems to counter drones and missiles, raised a €50M Series A led by Air Street Capital (sifted.eu)
2026-6-9 France AI Drone

The UK is conducting a full review of its NHS contract with Palantir, amid growing pressure to terminate the deal in 2027 over reliance on US tech companies (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-9

Beacon Software, which acquires niche software businesses and transforms them with AI, raised a $225M Series C, bringing its total funding to $550M (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-9 AI

In a UK online safety consultation, the US urges the UK against an under-16 social media ban, saying it would place a “disproportionate” burden on US Big Tech (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-9 Ban

A group of Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and CXMT, launches a ~$577M PE fund to boost China's “hard tech” sectors amid tightening US export curbs (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-9 China Alibaba

Finland-based Iceye, whose small satellites help countries with real-time location monitoring, raised a €1B Series F led by General Atlantic at a €10B valuation (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-6-9 Finland

IT management platform NinjaOne raised $400M in a secondary share sale at a $12.3B valuation, up from $5B in February 2025, and says its ARR has hit $600M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9

Report: US colleges now offer 74+ AI majors and 89+ minors, and at least a dozen schools are set to add AI majors this year; only five had AI majors in 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-9 AI

Donut Lab's 'Solid-State' Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-9 Battery

In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-9 IPO Interview

'Severe' Stress On Oceans As Rate of Sea Level Rise Doubles In 10 Years, UN Warns (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-9

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