Tech

'Notepad++ For Mac' Release Is Disavowed By the Creator of the Original (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

ElevenLabs raised $550M+ in its Series D, up from a previously announced $500M, adding BlackRock, Nvidia, and others as investors; its ARR passed $500M in Q1 (tech.eu)
2026-5-6 Nvidia

FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans' location data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 U.S. Ban

Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-6 AI Seattle

The EOL Blind Spot in Your CVE Feed: What SCA Tools Don't Check. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Zuckerberg

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (tech.eu)
2026-5-5 Intel Manufacturing Netherlands Quantum

Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-5 China

Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5

RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 AI Coinbase

The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Microsoft

a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-5

Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to form an AI working group that would examine AI oversight procedures, like vetting models before release (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Trump AI

Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook Instagram

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Shopify

Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Android Google

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft AI

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Startup AI

How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-5

Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook AI Instagram Facial Recognition

This open-box Microsoft Surface SE drops nearly 50% to just $190 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft

Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Korea Asset

Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a $4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5

PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to $464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5

Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B+ (daringfireball.net)
2026-5-5

Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft Nvidia Portugal

Karakurt extortion gang ‘cold case' negotiator gets 8.5 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5

Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-5 Google

In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-5-5 iPhone

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