Tech

10 Strange High-Tech Tools Shaping Modern Politics (listverse.com)
2026-6-26

10 Extraordinary Places Humans Have Adapted to Live (listverse.com)
2026-6-26

Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 Italy Microsoft AI

A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after a ban came into force, citing inadequate age verification checks (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-26 Australia Ban

Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Greece

'Fingerprints' of Black Hole's Event Horizon Detected For First Time (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Startup AI London

Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 Japan IPO AI

Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Samsung Switzerland London

Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 IPO Mobile SpaceX

Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Mobile Spain

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked its way into an export ban, as its 2026 statements and social media posts used 8x more AI risk-related terms than OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 AI Ban

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-26

Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a $60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26 Startup AI Battery

Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin (www.utahmoneywatch.com)
2026-6-26

SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 IPO

California launches a tool to serve as an “early warning system” for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Unemployment Insurance California

Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-6-26 Real Estate AI

How the US AI build-out is pushing up prices for electricity, software, and more; in a survey, 81% of economists say it will add to inflation over the next year (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Elastic announces a ~7% reduction in its workforce, and says “advances in AI and automation are letting us operate with leaner teams”; ESTC closed down 8.70% (www.theregister.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Doc: the DOD has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets, envisioning “systems where AI initiates actions with human monitoring” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI

YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 YouTube

Poland busts SIM-swapping gang tied to millions in crypto theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Poland

Anthropic is testing desktop-like Claude Cowork for mobile (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Mobile

Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Apple says it removed VK's apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were removed without warning and it has never been under US sanctions (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 Apple

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 (om.co)
2026-6-26

Trump Administration Asks OpenAI To Stagger Release of New Model (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Trump

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