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Venus' Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By a High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16

Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, which values the company at $3.2B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 Startup Africa

An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon (nymag.com)
2026-6-16 Trump Interview Republican

Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing startups backed by the US, raised a $100M Series C led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300M (www.axios.com)
2026-6-16 Startup Quantum

Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-16 Alibaba AI Robot

Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a “Your Algo” tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-16

Windows & Mac users—get a feature-rich lifetime PDF editor for $30 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere in a merger valuing the Cursor-developer at $60B, expected to close in Q3 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 SpaceX

Ransomware gang abuses Microsoft Teams relays to hide malicious traffic (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft

CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered “patching service” to secure Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure from cyberattacks (apnews.com)
2026-6-16 Japan

Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the weakest at filtering Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (www.ft.com)
2026-6-16 Russia AI

France plans €655M in AI investments through 2030 and a Mistral-powered chatbot for state services; its security service will replace Palantir with Chapsvision (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-16 France AI chatbot

India blocks Telegram until June 22 citing its use by organized “cheating rackets” to “defraud candidates” taking a national medical entrance examination (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 India

Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by showing “X-Rated” content to minors (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-6-16

Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16 Linux

Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-16 AI

10 of History's Most Expensive Megaprojects (listverse.com)
2026-6-16

10 Film Franchises That Never Fixed Their Biggest Problems (listverse.com)
2026-6-16

Italy's AGCM opens a probe into Apple under the DSA, saying rival cloud providers should get free iOS and iPadOS interoperability and iCloud-equivalent access (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-16 IOS Italy Apple

A Chinese Rocket Breaks Apart Dangerously Close To the Starlink Constellation (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 China

iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-16

Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-16

Cybersecurity Vets Protest 'Dangerous' US Government Ban On Anthropic's Most Powerful Models (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-16 Ban

Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (www.ft.com)
2026-6-16

Sources: Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-16 Microsoft AI GitHub

Memo: CTO Andrew Bosworth said Meta did “an atrocious job” sharing Applied AI's vision, promising employees better communication, career growth, and more perks (www.wired.com)
2026-6-16 AI Career

Filing: the US DOJ asks court to dismiss an NAACP suit over xAI's gas turbines, saying xAI is integral to US' military operations, including the Iran War (www.wired.com)
2026-6-16 Iran

Sources: Trump officials weighed Anthropic export controls weeks before forcing its models offline, after a dispute over Mythos access for a China-linked firm (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-6-16 Trump China

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