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NY man charged after harassing college student with AI-generated nudes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-19 AI

CISA warns Fortinet users to secure devices after FortiBleed leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-19

Rolls-Royce Secures Deal To Build Small Nuclear Reactors For Sweden (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 Sweden

Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-19 Google AI Nvidia

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-19

Trump Admin Backs Off Plans To Kill Ocean Monitoring (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 Trump

Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-19

The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (cointelegraph.com)
2026-6-19 CFTC

Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-19 China

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 Startup AI

Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 India Ban VPN

Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (www.ft.com)
2026-6-19 SpaceX

Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (www.ft.com)
2026-6-19 Europe Ukraine SpaceX

A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-19

A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push (www.ft.com)
2026-6-19 AI

Gentlemen ransomware uses multiple EDR killers to disable defenses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-19

Adobe Adds Its AI Assistant To Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 AI Adobe

Intel names former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as EVP of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran will lead front-end technology development and front-end manufacturing (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-19 Intel Manufacturing

California 'Billionaire Tax' Makes Ballot Despite Opposition From Tech Moguls (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 Tax California

Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B+ in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-19 IPO

Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 AI

Midjourney Pivots From AI Image Generation To Body Scanning Medical Spa (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 AI

Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-19 Texas

Bernie Sanders Unveils $7 Trillion Plan To Give Americans Control of AI Industry (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 U.S. AI

Unsealed docs: Google lost a court fight against a 2023 US warrant in a Jan. 6 pipe bomb probe seeking info of 300+ users who searched for the RNC and DNC HQs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-19 Google

Sources: the White House and Anthropic are working on a framework that would assess the severity of AI security flaws, a sign that negotiations are progressing (www.politico.com)
2026-6-19 AI

Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the 22-year-old son of pro-crypto Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, raised $30M led by Lux at a $300M valuation (fortune.com)
2026-6-19 APEC

Apple Announces Major App Store Changes on iOS in Brazil (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-6-19 IOS Apple Brazil

GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (artificialanalysis.ai)
2026-6-19 Intelligence

Nintendo confirms data stolen in WebMD subsidiary cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-19 Nintendo

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