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May 10, 2026, 1:40 AM
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Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net:
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears  —  The era of the anonymous phone number could be ending.  On April 30, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved …
Bloomberg:
How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period  —  Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world's most expensive stocks.
David Shepardson / Reuters:
GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers  —  GM (GM.N) has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a California investigation into allegations that the Detroit automaker illegally sold …
Zack Abrams / The Block:
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup  —  Quick Take  — LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers  —  Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment.  In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …
Krysta Fauria / Associated Press:
Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality  —  As concerns mount over artificial intelligence and its rapid integration into society, tech companies are increasingly turning …

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New York Times:
The US DOJ is probing whether ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News violated antitrust law by briefly suspending their White House pool coverage of President Trump

Nieman Lab:
An analysis of 15 years of cable news transcripts finds Fox attacks the media every 14.5 minutes, MSNBC every 61 minutes, and CNN every 140 minutes

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
A US judge orders DHS to immediately halt a $20M taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign and bars the administration from resuming it; ~$19M was already spent

More News

Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog:
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023

Earlier Picks

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., ~$1.06B operating profit, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit up 13% to ~$7.4B
Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 globally on September 1, from $450 to $500 in the US, and the price of the original Switch in Japan
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Instructure says its Canvas edtech platform has been restored after disabling it amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters
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