ArsTechnica
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Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain
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"I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
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Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription
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Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
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Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more
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In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo
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RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks
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Gemini 3.5 Flash might be fast enough for gen AI to make sense
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The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?
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EV drivers will pay $130 a year under Congress' 2026 transportation bill
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Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time
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Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers
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In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites
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Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz
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Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected
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Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date
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One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions
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Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades
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Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees
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Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor
Techmeme
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Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 (Bloomberg)
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Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to $3B of its stock, including $1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
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Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
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Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app (Sanuj Bhatia/Android Central)
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OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments (OpenAI)
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Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (New York Times)
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
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Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (Bloomberg)
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Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users (Mat Smith/Engadget)
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Ocean, which uses AI agents to detect email attacks, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed, following an $8M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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Sundar Pichai announced at Google I/O that Gemini 3.5 Pro will launch next month; attendees groaned at the model coming out later than they expected (Charles Rollet/Business Insider)
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Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and with XReal's Project Aura, all set to arrive this fall (Wired)
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Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistant that works "across merchants", built on the Universal Commerce Protocol, rolling out in the US today (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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At a hearing, two of three judges of a federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic's bid to block the DOD from designating it a supply-chain risk (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)
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Demis Hassabis says companies looking to replace developers with AI may be due to a "lack of imagination and a lack of understanding" of the future (Will Knight/Wired)