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| Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: |
Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs — - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the University of Arizona's commencement address this year.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable” — Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the company resumed talks with its union and a court partially granted an injunction against illegal union actions — Samsung Electronics Co.'s shares climbed more than 6% after its union signaled a willingness to negotiate and a local court granted …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply — Quick Take — Strategy has purchased another 24,869 BTC for approximately $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 per bitcoin … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized the industry's lax attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 — For decades, he criticized the industry's lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.
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| Alessandra Ram / Wired: |
How the AI industry's intense pressure to keep up and its financial rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses — Are you married to a man who's obsessed with AI? I'm so, so sorry. — If i had to listen to another minute …
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance — The company wants to focus on improving video quality and performance instead of gimmicks.| Theo Baker / New York Times: |
A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” — At Stanford University, where I am a senior, tech chief executives are something like rock stars.
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools — When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs — With Congress largely stalemated, companies turn to states to gain leverage over regulations.| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of $1,298,250 for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio — Participants demonstrated exploits for Windows, Linux, VMware, Nvidia, and AI products.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, after a request by the FSB's Chair — US tech group will discuss capabilities of its new AI model with members of the Financial Stability Board
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela — Regulators are seeking information from Kalshi and Polymarket over wagers tied to political events and military operations
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| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
A look at the new class of jobs created by AI companies: AI storytellers, forward deployed engineers, AI accelerators, AI philosophers, AI gig workers, and more — - AI is changing workplaces, including within the very companies that make frontier AI models.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
How Amazon, which took a measured tone on AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, a bet on custom chips, and savvy deals — The pieces are coming together for AWS's AI strategy, thanks to $200 billion in spending, custom chips and savvy deals
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