Tech

Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-29 Hong Kong IPO

Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers (www.engadget.com)
2026-6-29 Australia

US Agency Cancels Contract For Warrantless Tracking of Mobile Devices (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-29 Mobile

Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-29 Australia AI Indonesia Nvidia

'Supergirl' Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-6-29

Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-29 AI

An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year (fortune.com)
2026-6-29 AI

Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 AI

Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-28 AI Brazil

An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 Amazon

A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic (fortune.com)
2026-6-28 Microsoft

A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users (www.wired.com)
2026-6-28 China

Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-28 AI

Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $500M for using Optis' wireless patents (www.ft.com)
2026-6-28 Apple London

Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-28 China AI

IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 IBM Quantum

Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects (www.ft.com)
2026-6-28 Google AI

Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-28 Netflix

Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-28 AI Salesforce

Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America's Electricity Generation (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 U.S. Energy Renewable

How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one of the biggest financial backers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-28 AI

LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-28 China IPO AI

How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models (slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 AI

France's Heat This Week Was Worse Than a Dire Scenario Imagined For 2050 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 France

The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-28 AI

Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 Algorithm

Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 AI

Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-28 YouTube

California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-28 Instagram Drone California

Get a durable, refurbished Lenovo Chromebook for $55 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-28 Lenovo

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