Tech
AI Summary
- The tech industry is grappling with the dual realities of AI's potential and its current limitations, as highlighted by Mark Zuckerberg's candid remarks and the persistent hype around AI’s broader impact, even influencing stock market valuations.
- Cybersecurity remains a significant concern, with incidents ranging from politicians being targeted by spyware to large-scale government data breaches, underscoring the ongoing arms race in the digital realm.
- The automotive sector, particularly electric vehicles, is showing signs of robust growth with Tesla and Rivian boosting sales forecasts, while traditional media like video game discs face an existential crisis.
- A notable shift is occurring in how companies are approaching hardware and cloud infrastructure, with Meta reportedly building its own cloud business and Anthropic discussing custom chip development with Samsung.
- Privacy continues to be a central theme, evidenced by regulatory actions like FTC settlements and EU antitrust fines, alongside legislative efforts to protect user data and new applications designed to enhance user privacy.
Sources
TechCrunch
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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware
2 hours ago
by Zack Whittaker
Security, Government & Policy, Spyware, Pegasus, cybersecurity, NSO GroupA government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
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Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6
7 hours ago
by Isabelle Johannessen
Startups, Startup Battlefield Australia, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.
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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
8 hours ago
by Lucas Ropek
AI, ai agent, In Brief, Mark Zuckerberg, MetaAt an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
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Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force
8 hours ago
by Tim Fernholz
Space, Rocket Lab, True Anomaly, U.S. Space ForceTrue Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the U.S. military.
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Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections
9 hours ago
by Marina Temkin
Hardware, Venture, arizona, etched, fundraising, Thiel Capital, TSMCSelby's VC firm, Copper Sky Capital, is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.
Hacker News
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Engadget
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Tesla's Model Y L finally comes to the US with six seats and a $62,000 price tag
17 minutes ago
by Mariella Moon
EVs and TransportationTesla has started taking orders for the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US and Puerto Rico.
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Meta has released an app for making generative AI games
8 hours ago
by Anna Washenko
Apps, MetaPocket is listed in app stores but seemingly unavailable in the US.
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Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
10 hours ago
by Ian Carlos Campbell
AIThe hosting platform wants sites to have more control over how AI companies use their content.
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Why bulky laptop chargers are a relic of the past
13 hours ago
by Lawrence Bonk
LaptopsLaptop chargers are much easier to travel with these days, and there's one specific technology that is largely to thank.
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Tesla Q2 vehicle deliveries are up 25 percent over last year
14 hours ago
by Lawrence Bonk
EVs and TransportationThe company has been gaining traction in Europe.
The Verge
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Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed
6 hours ago
by Sean Hollister
Gaming, News, PlayStationThe video game disc is dead , and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzburg that the company's Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But since it'll only be making 10 percent of that volume in 2028, it's planning to retrain all 300 employees to work on optical microlenses instead. Thalgau isn't just one of Sony's disc plants. It's where the disc-making division is headquartered , and appears to
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Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home
9 hours ago
by Emma Roth
Electric Cars, News, Policy, Tesla, TransportationThe man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and local news outlet KHOU 11 . 44-year-old Michael Butler was arrested on Wednesday and claimed to have been driving his Model 3 using Tesla's Full-Self Driving (FSD) system at the time of the crash, according to an arrest affidavit . The court document includes the officer saying that data extraction from Butler's phone found several FSD-related Google searches from May 2026: "Tesla fsd not aggressive enough 2026 model," "tesla fsdnot [sic]
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Meta has a new app called Pocket that is absolutely nothing like the old Pocket
10 hours ago
by Jay Peters
Apps, Meta, News, TechMozilla shut down the well-loved read-it-later Pocket app last year , and now Meta is launching an app called Pocket with an entirely different, AI-focused pitch: this new app lets you make and share little interactive "gizmos" built from an AI prompt, as reported by Business Insider . Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media , and he's previously described a vision of how users could use AI to make interactive experiences and share them with people. The launch of Pocket appears to be one manifestation of that idea, and it follows Meta
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The best July 4th sales we found so far
11 hours ago
by Cameron Faulkner
Deals, Gadgets, Verge ShoppingJuly 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is hosting its own 4th of July sale, for example. And, if you’re on the hunt for tech and gear for the outdoors, REI is hosting a sale on products that will last through the week. There are even some Apple deals you can get, some
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Weber marks down grills and griddles to their best prices ever for July 4th
13 hours ago
by Brad Bourque
Deals, Gadgets, Verge ShoppingThe Weber Spirit E-325 grill with three burners. | Image: Weber If our recent Decoder interview with Weber Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle has you craving freshly grilled meats or veggies, Weber just so happens to have a variety of grills, smokers, griddles, and accessories selling at big discounts ahead of the July 4th holiday. It makes a bunch of models, but we’ve landed on a range of grills and griddles at varying price points. Weber is cheaper than other retailers by about $50 on most of these picks, but we’ve noted where you may be able to find them at
Wired
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EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
2 hours ago
by Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess
Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Compromised“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
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The Onion’s ‘Infowars’ Parody Is Here. Alex Jones Is Going to Hate It
7 hours ago
by Miles Klee
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Shock, JocksThe satirical site is fighting to officially take over Infowars. In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brain rot has become.
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How Big Is ‘Love Island USA’? More Than 10 Million People Are Already on Its App
10 hours ago
by Reece Rogers
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Reality, Bytes“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer.
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Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foul
13 hours ago
by Kate Knibbs
Business, Bot, BetsOne of Kalshi’s most prominent traders tells WIRED he’s swearing off Spotify-related markets until the issue is resolved.
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Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?
13 hours ago
by Maxwell Zeff
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Model, BehaviorCursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.