The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens …
A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used …
Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs
The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review. — Hackers have breached the Tea app …
The SharePoint hacks increase pressure on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company calls an ambitious effort expected to take years to complete
Three months ago, Microsoft Corp. issued a progress report on what it described as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history.
Mark Zuckerberg names Shengjia Zhao, the former OpenAI researcher who co-created ChatGPT, as chief scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs
Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws
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Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer”
Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.
Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang
RE: https://www.threads.com/... X: David Pfau / @pfau : So now there's a Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, but also Yann LeCun is still Chief AI Scientist for Meta. This feels like when ...
US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach
U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the …
Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit
Intel on Thursday confirmed its plan to spin off its Network and Edge Group in a memo to customers and said it will seek outside investment for the business unit.
Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers …
China's premier Li Qiang proposes creating an organization for global cooperation in AI and says “bottlenecks” in chip supplies are hindering AI innovation
Premier Li Qiang warns ‘bottlenecks’ in chip supplies are hindering innovation — William Langley in Guangzhou and Eleanor Olcott and Ryan McMorrow in Shanghai
The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a “try-first” culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states
Among the many, many ambitious ideas baked into his AI Action Plan, President Donald Trump wants to inculcate a “try-first” culture for innovation in the U.S.
Core Devices CEO says the company has recovered the Pebble trademark, allowing it to rename its new smartwatches as Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2
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Pony AI gets a permit to provide fully driverless robotaxi services in Shanghai, making it the only company with permits in all four of China's biggest cities
Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI (PONY.O) said on Saturday it had received a permit to provide fully driverless commercial robotaxi services …
Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business
The company has defended search but its dominant position in online advertising may still be up for grabs
China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that has multimodal AI and weighs 25kg, for $5,900, drastically lowering the entry price for such machines
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Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding … Bluesky: @kevinmarks.com . X: @pitdesi and @sri_batchu Bluesky: Kevin Mark...
Palantir becomes the 20th most valuable US company, after its stock more than doubled in 2025, giving it a market cap of $375B
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Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour
it's training AI models. … Catherine Emanuel : I was interviewed by Emma Haidar at Bloomberg News recently about my participation in and motivations for joining the Handshake MOVE Fellowship, working ...
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $3B to $5B, including from Middle Eastern investors, in a round that could more than double its valuation to $150B+
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Blackstone agrees to acquire a majority stake in NetBrain, valuing the Burlington, Massachusetts-based network operations and automation company at $750M
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Sources: Ramp is in talks to raise $350M led by Iconiq at a ~$21B valuation, after raising $200M at a $16B valuation in June
The Information : X: @buccocapital and @sri_batchu X: @buccocapital : At first my take was gonna be that Ramp raising at $16B in June and then $21B a month later was ridiculous... And then I remember...
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