Tech

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

Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8 AI Instagram

London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a $300M Series C led by Temasek at a $2.4B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-8 AI London

Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI Factory and co-designing future data center architectures (www.chosun.com)
2026-6-8 AI Robot Nvidia

Texas Grid Flags Risks As Data Centers, Crypto Sites Fail Voltage Tests (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8 Texas

Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform (www.gamespot.com)
2026-6-8 Microsoft Xbox

Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, as it pivots to video to become a one-stop shop for music fans (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-8 Spotify

Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise $1B+ that would value it at $30B, up from a $20B valuation in a recent round (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-8 chatbot

Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-8 Israel Microsoft

Police Sued After Imprisoning Innocent Man Placed Near Violent Crime By Flock License Plate Reader (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8

UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs (pathfounders.com)
2026-6-8 Europe

Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital, at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 raise (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-8 Energy Startup

Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year pact to develop next-gen memory tailored for Nvidia's AI infrastructure roadmap, including for Vera Rubin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-8 AI Nvidia

Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-8 Korea AI Nvidia

Prada Unveils 'Liquid Cooling' Inner-Layer Garment for NASA's Moon Astronauts with Knitted-In Ventilation Tubes (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8 NASA

Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8 AI

Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasses (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8 Facebook

As wealth managers confront an AI reckoning, the tech is, for now, easing their workloads by picking up routine tasks, freeing up more time to advise clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-8 AI

New Fortune 500 Rankings: Texas Overtakes California, But Amazon is #1, Beating Walmart (slashdot.org)
2026-6-8 Amazon California Texas Walmart

James Bond Videogame '007 First Light' Sells 3M Copies, Earns $150M (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8

The Gamer-Rights Group Fighting to Make the Industry Stop Killing Games (Servers) (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8

Get lifetime access to Curiosity Stream for $127.50 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8

Silent Ransom Group targets law firms with fake IT support calls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8

C0XMO botnet spreads via DD-WRT router flaw, kills rival malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-8

KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-8 AI KPMG

Winners Announced in 2026's 'International Obfuscated C Code Competition' (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8

James Bond Videogame '007 First Light' Sells 2.2M Copies, Earns $150M (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-8

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