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Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising a ~$300M round led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Blockchain Asset

GM Secretly Sold California Drivers' Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 California

Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Microsoft

Hackers abuse Google ads, Claude.ai chats to push Mac malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

Unemployment Ticked Up in America's IT Sector (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 U.S. Unemployment

Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 Amazon Programmer

A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex (fortune.com)
2026-5-11 Democrat

Rocket Lab Reports Growing Demand for Commercial Space Products. Stock Surges 34% (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11

Sources: Apple is working on a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues, plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in “27” OSes (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Apple

Unemployed Ticked Up in America's IT Sector (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 U.S.

Police shut down reboot of Crimenetwork marketplace, arrest admin (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11

Most of the tech on display at this year's Border Security Expo was autonomous and AI-equipped, driven by the Trump administration's focus on US border security (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-10 Trump AI

The EU Considers Restricting Use of US Cloud Platforms for Sensitive Government Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10

Upskillers, here's a solid pick—this AI bundle is $20 today only (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-10 AI

NYT: 'Meta's Embrace of AI Is Making Its Employees Miserable' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10 AI

Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-10 AI

Executives at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-10 AI

Inside Consensus Conference, one of the biggest crypto conferences, which had a decidedly corporate sheen in 2026 amid Wall Street's embrace of digital assets (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-10 Wall Street Asset

NetBlocks: Iran's 70+ day internet blackout is “the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society”, as businesses warn of layoffs, closures (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-10 Layoffs Iran

An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate rose from 3.6% in March to 3.8% in April, as the sector shed 13,000 jobs amid AI uncertainty (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-10 AI Unemployment

Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (fintech.global)
2026-5-10 AI

Paris-based Lithosquare, which uses AI to speed the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits, raised a $25M seed led by World Fund and Kindred Capital (www.eu-startups.com)
2026-5-10 AI Paris

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds (fortune.com)
2026-5-10 Blockchain

Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock (www.datacenterknowledge.com)
2026-5-10 AI Sydney

Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues (reclaimthenet.org)
2026-5-10 Android Google

'Changing of the Guard'? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10 Intel Nvidia AMD

Open Source Registries Join Linux Foundation Working Group to Address Machine-Generated Traffic (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10 Linux Open Source

Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-10 AI

FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears (reclaimthenet.org)
2026-5-10

Will Maryland's Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States' Datacenters? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10

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