Tech

Analysis: China's low-cost ecommerce exports fell 10.9% YoY in April to $9.81B, the fifth straight monthly decline, amid surging fuel costs and weakening demand (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-9 China

Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents (www.404media.co)
2026-6-9 Microsoft AI GitHub

Sources: former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, has $20B+ AUM, after launching less than two years ago (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-9 AI

Critical UniFi OS bug lets hackers gain root without authentication (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9

Gogs patches critical zero-day enabling remote code execution (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9

Sources: Russia paused parts of a surveillance system protecting Putin after Israel used AI on footage from Iran's traffic cameras to locate Ayatollah Khamenei (www.ft.com)
2026-6-9 Russia Israel AI Iran

NY-based A Security, which uses AI to automate offensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with $37M in funding from Lightspeed, Wiz's Assaf Rapaport, others (fortune.com)
2026-6-9 AI

PointFive, which helps companies reduce unnecessary cloud and AI spending, raised a $60M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $100M (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-9 AI

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm' (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-9 Algorithm Jeff Bezos

Amazon announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar deal with Corning to produce optical fiber for its US data centers; Corning shares jump 8%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-9 Amazon

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried formally applies for a presidential pardon; he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, following the FTX collapse (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9

A study estimates the iPhone's diffusion explains 33%-52% of the decline in US births from 2007 to 2011, with the most pronounced effects among women aged 15-24 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-9 iPhone

Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that barred NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-9 WhatsApp

Reducing security operations complexity with Wazuh Cloud (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-9

Sources: Google recently placed an order with Intel to manufacture 3M+ TPUs in 2028; Nvidia is testing Intel's tech for a new processor and running 18A trials (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-8 Google Intel Nvidia

Check Point links VPN zero-day attacks to Qilin ransomware gang (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8 VPN

Sources: the US urged NATO allies to channel defense spending toward efforts to replace components from Huawei in their networks and critical infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-8

Travis Kalanick, Mark Pincus, and other founders share their horror stories of pitching to VCs; Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince publicly calls out Vinod Khosla (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-8

Bending Spoons files for a US IPO, reporting a net income of $27.5M on revenue of $601M in Q1, vs. a net loss of $112.2M on revenue of $259M a year earlier (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-8 IPO

Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering 'Cooldown' Before Installing New Packages (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8

A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-8 Energy Ireland

This CISSP course pack covers 8 advanced security domains for $15 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8

Oxford University discloses data breach after careers platform hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8

10 Weirdly Specific Conspiracy Theories from the 1990s (listverse.com)
2026-6-8 Conspiracy

10 Fresh Clues That Might Crack Old Mysteries (listverse.com)
2026-6-8

In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says ~20K Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting April 17 (this.weekinsecurity.com)
2026-6-8 AI chatbot Instagram

UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce safety measures on kids' phones to stop them from sharing nude images or face laws forcing them to do so (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-8

Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some “safer” social media (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-8 Ban

Notice: Meta says ~20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack that abused an AI-powered account recovery support tool to reset passwords (www.securityweek.com)
2026-6-8 AI Instagram

A San Francisco Burglar Escaped in a Robotaxi - and Police Still Can't Find Him (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8 San Francisco

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