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Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation — Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer … | New York Times: |
Analysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money …
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple suppliers plan to ship <1M iPhone fold units in Q3 2026, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry survey indicates that assembly shipments for the foldable iPhone in 2H26 will be roughly 7-8 million units …
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| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture — NVIDIA's next marquee product — the Kyber rack-scale architecture designed to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips …
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| Brian Danga / The Block: |
Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries — Quick Take — Ripple said it received CASP authorization from Luxembourg's CSSF, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries.| Reuters: |
SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~$28B by selling 17.79M shares; the company is set to announce the specific price range later on Monday — South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix (000660.KS) on Monday launched a U.S. share sale to raise 43 trillion won ($28.07 billion) …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
A look at Threads and a Q&A with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with its focus on community — Meta's office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times
More: Reuters. LinkedIn: Connor Hayes. Threads: @philfung, @ngorby, @conno_r, @karaswisher, and @matthewfacciani
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect — Two of China's major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps, ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba Group Holding's Qwen …
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| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge ordered the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality — A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and an AI assistant onto users' faces.
More: CNBC
| Eric Katz / NOTUS: |
Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s — Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust.| Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: |
Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B+ in crypto in 2025, almost 8x the amount in 2024 — Blacklisted entities handled $100 billion in crypto in 2025, financing terrorism and weapons — Iran, Russia, North Korea … | Jennifer Medina / New York Times: |
Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they're not without risk.
Forums: r/Enough_Sanders_Spam, r/protectUSelections, r/technology, and r/politics
| Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: |
Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as targets — A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi's edit tool …
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