Tech

A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor (sfstandard.com)
24 days ago Google Uber Netflix California

WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Immigration

A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats (www.nytimes.com)
24 days ago AI

Syntiant, which develops low-power AI processors, files for a US IPO, reporting a $20.9M net loss on $64.5M in revenue for the three months ended March 31 (www.reuters.com)
24 days ago IPO AI

Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World (slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI

Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, a 19-fold jump from a year earlier and above a ~$57.02B estimate, and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B (www.reuters.com)
24 days ago Samsung

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (www.businessinsider.com)
24 days ago

Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output (www.anthropic.com)
24 days ago

Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps (yro.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Mobile Texas

BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a “malicious governance proposal” that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens (www.theblock.co)
24 days ago

South Korea's SK Hynix Launching $28 Billion US Listing To Ride Global AI Wave (hardware.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Korea AI

Sources: Vista Equity and Quinti made a takeover bid for Criteo that values the French ad tech company at a 50%+ premium to its stock price in recent weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago France Equity

Source: Thrive Capital spinoff Thrive Holdings seeks to raise around $2B from SoftBank, Altimeter, D1, and others, after previously raising $1B (www.theinformation.com)
24 days ago

Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams push EtherRAT malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago Microsoft

Phishing poses as big-brand job interview to steal Google accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago Google Interview

Sources: CISA's Attack Surface Evaluation team is using Mythos to audit government code repositories and has already uncovered a large number of vulnerabilities (www.reuters.com)
24 days ago

SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent (www.reuters.com)
24 days ago Mobile Texas

Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Commerce instead of Treasury amid concerns over Treasury's legal authority to manage it (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Real Estate Bitcoin

Zombie 'Who Owns Unix?' Lawsuit Comes Alive Again (tech.slashdot.org)
24 days ago

Vietnam arrests suspects behind HiAnime anime piracy service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago Vietnam

Secret Claude Tracker Shocks Users After Anthropic's Anti-Surveillance Stance (yro.slashdot.org)
24 days ago

Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 5,000 Employees Across Xbox, Commercial Sales (games.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Microsoft Xbox

Xbox appoints Helen Chiang as its first COO; Chiang was previously corporate vice president for the Minecraft Franchise and the studio head of Minecraft (gamesbeat.com)
24 days ago Xbox

Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has about 30M subscriptions; document: Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach around 77M this year (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Microsoft Xbox

A term sheet shows Tencent is seeking to raise as much as $1.55B in a selldown of part of its stake in short-video app operator Kuaishou through a block trade (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Tencent

Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a Replaceable Battery in Europe (hardware.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Europe Nintendo Battery

Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (venturebeat.com)
24 days ago Tencent

Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago U.S.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315, a bill requiring annual third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill (www.cbsnews.com)
24 days ago AI

Source: Mercor hit over $2B in gross revenue run rate in June, double its pace in April, and is profitable on a free cash flow basis (www.theinformation.com)
24 days ago

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