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Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors' (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25 Microsoft Quantum

Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital (fortune.com)
2026-6-25 AI

A 25-Year-Old Blog Looks Back At 40 Years of Computing (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25

Trump Admin Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-25 Trump

Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-25 Microsoft Quantum

Ten of the Strangest Things You Can Buy Online (listverse.com)
2026-6-25

Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a $33M seed led by a16z (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-25

Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 (www.wired.com)
2026-6-25 Trump

XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a $46M Series B at a $127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $76M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Amadey, StealC malware operations disrupted in Operation Endgame action (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25

CISA warns of max severity Ubiquiti flaws exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25

RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-25 Nvidia

Securing the service desk: Why social engineering attacks keep succeeding (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-25

NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office (fortune.com)
2026-6-25 Goldman

Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is “China's version of Mythos”, and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-24 China AI

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to take them down (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24 Microsoft AI

Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy connected TV ads, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get ~$180M to stay for four years (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-24 Walmart

Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24 Google

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models (openai.com)
2026-6-24 Manufacturing

Qualcomm plans to acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 (www.wired.com)
2026-6-24

Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300 Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24 India Amazon

Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its DGX B300 server went from ~$550K to ~$1.1M (www.ft.com)
2026-6-24 China AI Nvidia

Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app internally called Arena, which would probably use video game-like points instead of money wagers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-24

Rockstar says physical GTA 6 copies will contain a download code, not a disc; physical copies will be available from November 12, before the November 19 launch (www.ign.com)
2026-6-24

The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-24

Skip the Adobe fees with this lifetime PDF editor deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-24 Adobe

An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-6-24 AI chatbot

How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-24 Taiwan

Stealthy Mistic backdoor linked to ransomware access broker KongTuke (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-24

Mushroom Behind 'Tiny Human' Visions Lacks Genes For Known Psychedelics (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-24

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