Tech

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

Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9%+ and SYNA jumps 11%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-26

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-26 Google AI

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites To Coordinate AI-Driven Open Source Security (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Linux AI Open Source

Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising $250M; it has raised ~$181M since its 2021 launch (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26 Climate

Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-26 IPO

Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-26

Apple stock closed down 6.15% on Thursday after the company raised some product prices, its worst fall since April 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-26 Apple

The US awards $250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 Startup

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 Blockchain AI

Apple Raises Prices On Macs, iPads, and More By Hundreds of Dollars (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Apple

Order-tracking app Shop abused to push callback phishing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Support Case Data During Klue Breach (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Microsoft quietly extends the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 consumers by a year, letting eligible users get updates through October 12, 2027 (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft

Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft

This CISSP & risk management course bundle is $15 through 6/28 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

Anthropic Says Alibaba Must Be Punished For Largest Claude Cloning Attack (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Alibaba

Netris, which helps neoclouds automate network configuration to bring their data centers online faster, raised a $15M Series A from a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 ETH

Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox (9to5mac.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 Android IOS Google AI

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 (kotaku.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft Xbox

Nebulock, which helps security teams proactively find and remediate threats across a company's security stack, raised a $25M Series A led by FirstMark (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Apple

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