Tech

Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In 'AI-Native' Restructuring (slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 AI Coinbase

Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (arstechnica.com)
2026-5-6

New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Linux

EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 4Q

Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6

Researchers report Amazon SES abused in phishing to evade detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Amazon

Instructure hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Hacker

GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28% (www.investors.com)
2026-5-6

Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6

Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 4Q

Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Google AI

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox “will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console” as part of a strategic shift (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Mobile Xbox

AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, as AI chip demand stays strong (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 AI AMD

Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Apple

Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-6 Google

Moving To Mainframe Can Be Cheaper Than Sticking With VMware (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 VMware

Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying “he knows rockets, he knows electric cars” but “does not know AI” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6

Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (siliconangle.com)
2026-5-6

DAEMON Tools trojanized in supply-chain attack to deploy backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

Blitzy, which says its platform autonomously completes months of software development, raised $200M at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $232M+ (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-5-6

This $53 lifetime membership deal unlocks 90+ cybersecurity courses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

The EOL Blind Spot in Your CVE Feed: What SCA Tools Miss (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6

US Government Warns of Severe CopyFail Bug Affecting Major Versions of Linux (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Linux

Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 IOS AI Apple

Student hacked Taiwan high-speed rail to trigger emergency brakes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Taiwan

OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims “on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance” (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6

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