Tech

FSB-orchestrated internet outages in Russia, intermittent but indiscriminate, have made one of the world's most online nations resort to cash and paper maps (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-6-11 Russia

Applied Materials opens a $500M chip equipment manufacturing campus in Singapore, making the city-state home to ~50% of its production capacity alongside the US (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-11 Singapore Manufacturing

Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs (www.ft.com)
2026-6-11 Elon Musk

Opendoor says it is shutting down its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-enabled teams in the US (www.moneycontrol.com)
2026-6-11 India AI

US OPM awards a ~$400M, 10-year IT contract to Oracle to develop a single, government-wide system for agencies to manage their HR capabilities (federalnewsnetwork.com)
2026-6-11 Oracle

Solar Beats Coal In the US For the First Month Ever (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-11 Solar

Google Quantum AI COO says the company declined funding from the $2B Trump administration grant because “conditions” attached would have slowed its work (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-11 Trump Google AI Quantum

The FBI seizes 13 domains allegedly tied to fake consulting firms that sought information from US government and military employees for suspected Chinese agents (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-11 China FBI

Anthropic backtracks on a policy limiting Claude Fable 5's ability to develop other AI models, after significant backlash from the AI research community (www.wired.com)
2026-6-11 AI

South Korean regulators fined Coupang $409M for a data leak in 2025 that exposed ~33.7M accounts and escalated into a diplomatic conflict with the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11 Korea

Letter: Texas Governor Greg Abbott released regulatory recommendations for state lawmakers to ensure that data centers shoulder the costs of their growth (www.texastribune.org)
2026-6-11 Texas

Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering its price for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects at Anthropic (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-11

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add “communities” this year, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an “Xbox reset” in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11 Xbox

Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-11 AI chatbot Canada Ban Social Media

Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-11 Instagram Algorithm

YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (9to5google.com)
2026-6-11 YouTube

Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA$14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11 Amazon Canada

CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-11 AI

Visa Plugs Its Payment Network Into ChatGPT (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-11

Chinese companies are implementing “quiet” AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-11 China AI Layoffs

Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11 Microsoft Layoffs Budget Xbox

Path traversal flaw in AI dev platform Langflow exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-11 AI

Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-11

Valve Discontinues Physical Steam Gift Cards Due To Scammers (games.slashdot.org)
2026-6-11

OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers (www.axios.com)
2026-6-11 China

Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, vs. $19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B through a combination of debt and equity financing in FY 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-11 Oracle 4Q Equity

The ‘Miasma' worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-11 GitHub

Threats Against Politicians Tripled After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-11

GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-11 GitHub

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