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“Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-2 AI Spotify

ICANN Opens Applications For New Generic Top-Level Domains (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2

Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-2 Amazon AI

The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored (cyberscoop.com)
2026-5-2 Australia AI New Zealand Canada

Some retail traders are training AI agents to buy and sell assets on their behalf, as exchanges like Polymarket and Bybit roll out agent-friendly interfaces (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-2 Retail AI Asset

The gender gap in AI use may be a matter of visibility more than usage, as data suggests women face more judgment for using AI and are less likely to admit it (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-2 AI

The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, where attackers hack freight brokers' accounts and dupe carriers; 2025 cargo theft losses in N. America rose 60% YoY (securityaffairs.com)
2026-5-2 U.S. FBI

The Case Against an Imminent Software Developer Apocalypse (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2

GPT-5.5 Matches Heavily Hyped Mythos Preview In New Cybersecurity Tests (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2

A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 (therecord.media)
2026-5-2

Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-2 Startup AI Robot Intelligence

15-year-old detained over French govt agency data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-2 France

Experts say supply chain attacks compromised SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the PyPI package Lightning, in a campaign that calls itself Mini Shai-Hulud (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-2

Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire (fortune.com)
2026-5-2

Story retracted (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-2

Spotify Adds 'Verified' Badges To Distinguish Human Artists From AI (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2 AI Spotify

Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Bug In cPanel, Used By Millions of Websites (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2

The California Government Is Coming For Your E-Bikes (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-2 California

Criminal IP and Securonix ThreatQ Collaborate to Enhance Threat Intelligence Operations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-2 Intelligence

Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that's raised $5.7B via junk bonds (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-2

The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-2 AI Drone

Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-2

Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop warnings displaying incorrectly (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1 Microsoft

Amazon launches “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-1 Amazon AI

Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, used for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” (www.macrumors.com)
2026-5-1 AI Tim Cook

Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for “lawful” use (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-1 Microsoft AI Nvidia

The Invisible Force Making Food Less Nutritious (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-1

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says “the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history” and “we believe we gained market share during the quarter” (www.ft.com)
2026-5-1 iPhone Apple

Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615M in stock and cash (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-1 AI

Microsoft now lets admins choose pre-installed Store apps to uninstall (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1 Microsoft

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