• Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t
• The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect
• Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.
• AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
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• Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays
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• After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake
• Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
• China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
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• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
• Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
• Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
• Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
• Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
• Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
• Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper
• Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
• Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
• Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
• Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
• Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
• Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
• San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
• Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
• Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

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• A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash
• Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021
• Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push
• Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'
• Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
• Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
• YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
• Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
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• Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'
• AI Capex is Eating the Economy
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• What content strategy looks like in the age of AI
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• How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry
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• Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

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• OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation
• Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
• Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out
• FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
• Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial
• Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day
• A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups
• People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
• Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories
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• Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
• DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban
• FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger
• Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal
• Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59
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• Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state
• Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
• OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition
• Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
• Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry
• Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool
• DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key
• DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
• EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal
• Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users
• Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
• EU to test age-check app under new child safety rules - 9to5Mac
• Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations | TechCrunch
• A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
• Uber to invest in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal
• YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
• This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It
• I Tested the Galaxy Z Fold 7: It's Slim, Powerful and Surprisingly Practical

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• A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin
• Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google
• Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
• House "crypto week" could change how Americans use, save money
• Latest stablecoin bill addresses foreign issuers, national security safeguards
• Grok team apologizes for the chatbot's 'horrific behavior' and blames 'MechaHitler' on a bad update
• Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions
• European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems
• Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3
• Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
• Belkin shutting down these Wemo smart home products in 2026
• It's YouTube vs. Netflix as the Streaming Wars Come Down to 2
• Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth
• GameStop's Nintendo Switch 2 stapler sells for more than $100,000 on eBay after viral mishap
• Professor Oak's voice actor, James Carter Cathcart, has died

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• SCOTUS Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
• Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May
• SCOTUS granting cert to Cox v. Sony
• Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright case
• Kadrey v. Meta AI copyright case
• Microsoft layoffs hit 9,000 employees in new wave of cuts
• Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the TikTok ban
• Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams
• Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh | TechCrunch
• Elon Musk's Starlink Adds $750 Congestion Charge
• Mystery recall of iPhone engineers may be Chinese interference in Apple's plans

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• The panel discusses the current gaming environment
• More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad
• Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions
• Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
• ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
• Meta says it's winning the talent war with OpenAI
• Android phones could soon warn you of "Stingrays" snooping on your communications
• Tesla Ordered to Stop 'Deceptive Practices' on Cars' Self-Driving Capabilities in France or Face Thousands in Fines
• Trump's 'big beautiful bill' could mean slower Wi-Fi for you
• Future of States' AI Laws Hinges on Senate Rules for Tax Bill
• The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It's So Much Worse

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• Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
• Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction
• Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System
• Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks
• The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
• It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
• AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
• Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
• For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans' top news source
• Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time
• The People Search Sites in the Suspected Minnesota Killer's Notebook Are a Failure of Congress
• 40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet
• Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
• WhatsApp's rollout of ads will change the app forever
• Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg

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• Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language
• Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow
• Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era
• Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
• Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete
• Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel
• Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization
• IBM aims to build the world's first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
• Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch
• Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe
• Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent
• YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024
• God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro
• Army reserve tech executives meta palantir
• Nintendo Switch 2 Is Fastest-Selling Game Console of All Time - Slashdot
• An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
• Anker recalls 1.1 million power banks due to fire hazard risk
• Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns
• Bald eagle live cam update: Babies are leaving nest. What's next?

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