/r/technology
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US draft update: Major tech company [Palantir] urges universal national service
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The Onion Says It Has a Deal to Take Over Alex Jones’ Infowars, Plans to Relaunch It as Parody of Itself
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EU Declared Age App “Ready” While GitHub Flagged it Unfit, Then Hackers Bypassed It in 2 Minutes
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US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties
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The UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners
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US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service
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Maryland becomes first state to pass bill banning ‘surveillance pricing’
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Stop Killing Games delivers "absolutely incredible" hearing in European Parliament: "There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively": "There's a long road ahead but the momentum is real."
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eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap
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Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down, John Ternus confirmed as new Apple CEO
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He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation
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Scientists invent a plant-based serum that is proven to regrow hair in weeks
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
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TikTok Skits Reveal ChatGPT, Gemini And Grok Are Confidently Wrong
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Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters
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Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers With 25,000 Ground Robots
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The ‘Annoyance Economy’ Is More Than Just Annoying • A new estimate puts the cost of dealing with robocalls, hidden fees and customer service chatbots that can’t solve most problems at $165 billion.
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Car Owners Are Revolting Over Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises
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John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (CNBC)
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OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering (Apple)
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Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (Apple)
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Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ (The GitHub Blog)
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Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled since Jan. (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...)
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RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated (André Beganski/Decrypt)
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A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from "fanatical" donors since early 2025 (Washington Post)
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Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (David McCabe/New York Times)
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A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring the situation" across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (a16z)
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WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Moonshot introduces Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model that it says shows strong improvements in long-horizon coding tasks, available under a modified MIT License (Kimi AI)
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Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M+ per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Sources: UK-based CuspAI, which aims to use AI for discovering new materials, is in discussions to raise at least $200M, taking its valuation to over $1B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)