Tech

Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-26 Spain

Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-26 Spotify

OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26

Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26 Microsoft

Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised $250M led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E announced in May 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-26 Logistics

SEC filing: Quantinuum is seeking to raise $1.05B in its US IPO, marketing ~21M shares for $45 to $50 each, giving it a $12.7B valuation at the top of the range (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 IPO

Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Drone Pentagon SpaceX

This lifetime PDF editor is just $65 with code SAVE5 through 5/31 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed “anti-tech violent extremism” amid the AI boom (www.wired.com)
2026-5-26 AI FBI

Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~$34.3M, above $21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 AI

7-Eleven data breach exposes personal information of 185,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

Microsoft: Domain Controller lookup may fail on Windows Server 2016 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26 Microsoft

CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

10 Times Saying the Wrong Thing Became a Death Sentence (listverse.com)
2026-5-26

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that “controlled” products are superior to unregulated AI “slop” (www.ft.com)
2026-5-26 AI Spotify

Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 11% YoY to ~$14.6B, its first quarterly decline in three years, and net income down 57% to $695M amid a global memory price jump (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 Xiaomi

As AI tools like Mythos create a “bug-pocalypse”, Glassdoor says Q1 cybersecurity job postings rose 11% YoY, and executive search firms are turning away clients (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals (www.ft.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 China Alibaba AI

Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored after a five-week recovery effort following a $293M exploit by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18 (cointelegraph.com)
2026-5-26 Korea

A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Korea Samsung

10 Stars Who Secretly Wrote Hit Songs for Other Singers (listverse.com)
2026-5-26

A surge in AI-generated “pro se” cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Visually impaired Waymo users in CA say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them the discrimination they face from human drivers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26

Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (www.bostonglobe.com)
2026-5-26

The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-26

X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by “programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-26

Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Iran

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Google Search's future, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism of AI, TPUs, being “behind the frontier” in coding, more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 Google AI

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