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Snap's First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI

Zhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (z.ai)
2026-6-17

SpaceX To Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Startup AI SpaceX

Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-17 Android Google AI

Turn 15 minutes into lifetime learning while Headway's just $48 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Steam Workshop abused to spread malware via Wallpaper Engine app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, debuting in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall (www.uploadvr.com)
2026-6-17 Android

Letter: Hightouch, an ad tech startup recently valued at $2.75B, offers to buy LiveRamp's identity business from Publicis for $800M to $1.2B in cash and stock (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 Startup

A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-6-17 Interview Battery AR

The US Government's Anthropic Models Ban Was Never About an AI Jailbreak (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 AI Ban

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option (www.axios.com)
2026-6-17 Microsoft

Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first AR glasses that are “fully standalone” and have a 51-degree field of view, expected “this fall” in the US, UK, and France (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-17 France AR

Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-17 iPhone AI Apple

Russian Spam and Profanities Are Now Plaguing the Arch Linux AUR (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Russia Linux

Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17

Firefox 152 Adds JPEG XL Support, Redesigned Settings (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-17 Firefox

Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital (fortune.com)
2026-6-17

Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-17

FTC warns of record $3.5 billion losses to imposter scams in 2025 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

GhostTree Attack Abused Recursive Windows Junctions to Hide Malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-17 Face ID

Sources: the Trump administration won't allow G7 countries to regain access to Mythos 5 as doing so would be “completely illogical”; UK requested a “carve-out” (nypost.com)
2026-6-17 Trump

Sources: Binance is set to lose permission to offer services to EU clients from the start of July as its application for a license is about to be turned down (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-17

Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding (siliconangle.com)
2026-6-16 AI

Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-16 AI Manufacturing

Microsoft upgrades Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips; Pro starts at $1,499 and Laptop at $1,599, both $100 higher than last-gen (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft

Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M (www.axios.com)
2026-6-16

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or around 290 employees, as part of “flattening” its org structure (cointelegraph.com)
2026-6-16

Roblox rolls out Roblox Kids accounts, for ages 5-8, and Roblox Select accounts, for ages 9-15, globally, after launching them in four countries last month (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-16

Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (www.wheresyoured.at)
2026-6-16

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