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OpenAI’s abrupt shopping pullback earlier this month didn’t just raise questions about its decision-making. It also affected several commerce and payments firms, including PayPal and Etsy, that have put in work to help the ChatGPT maker expand the high-profile shopping venture and are now in limbo as it sorts out what’s next.
And in the case of PayPal, it had also announced spending money on OpenAI’s technology as part of joining forces with the company for its ChatGPT checkout feature. PayPal’s commitment
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Qualys's Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel "that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions." Friday their blog pointed out "The bug has resided in mainline Linux since November 2016 (v4.10-rc1)." "Upstream patches and distribution updates are already available." Working exploits are circulating publicly, and administrators should... Read more ›
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Keep your phone, laptop, handheld gaming console, and other electronics running with these travel-friendly power banks. Read more ›
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Практика Project Loom: как включить preview Structured Concurrency в javac, Maven и Gradle, как использовать ScopedValue для request context и StructuredTaskScope для параллельных вызовов, joiner’ы, timeout и связка обеих фич в одном примере. Примеры под JDK 25+ Что же с Project Loom? Read more ›
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The 65-inch Hisense CanvasTV is on sale at Amazon for $1,099.99, down from the list price of $1,999.99. That's a 45% discount. Read more ›
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The Xiaomi 17T and Xiaomi 17T Pro will be unveiled on May 28, followed by the 17T's launch in India on June 4. Xiaomi already revealed the rear designs of the 17T and 17T Pro, and now its Indian branch has given us our best official look yet at the non-Pro model through a video clip on X. The video, included in the X post embedded below, shows the 17T... Read more ›
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Seven years after losing my husband, my daughter and I finally found a way to celebrate him that feels good. Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The tech elite’s go-to real estate broker? The mayor’s brother • Crypto: Inside crypto’s Washington command center • Lists: 20 great books for summer 2026 • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “John Kiriakou’s Dead Drop,” “Returning” and “The Testaments”Lately, it seems that Marc Tessier-Lavigne has been popping up everywhere.The neuroscientist, ex–Stanford University president and former Genentech executive has been making the... Read more ›
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Roger Linn is a legend in the world of musical instruments. He's been at the cutting edge of music technology for decades. He created the LM-1, the first drum machine to use samples, and its successor, the LinnDrum, is one of the most iconic drum machines of all time. They were used on countless records […] Read more ›
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Mini PCs are not glamorous, but that’s why they feel refreshing in a market full of expensive laptops, overbuilt towers, and computers trying too hard. Read more ›
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People took a PDF file report about a plane crash and used AI to recreate the last few seconds its pilots' conversation. Read more ›
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Anthropic and OpenAI are widening the revenue gap between themselves and the rest of the AI startup field. A group of 34 leading startups in that sector, including Anthropic and OpenAI, is generating nearly $80 billion in annualized revenue, or $6.6 billion per month, from selling AI applications or access to the models that power such apps, according to The Information’s Generative AI Database. That’s up 112% from six months... Read more ›
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Bill Gates’ charitable trust has sold all of its Microsoft stock and no longer owns any shares in the company, it disclosed Friday. The Gates Foundation Trust reported that it had sold around $3 billion worth of Microsoft stock in the first quarter of 2026. Gates, who is the sole trustee of the ... Read more ›
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This should be an action-packed week in tech news, what with Nvidia’s first-quarter earnings, Google’s annual I/O developer conference and Meta Platforms’ scheduled layoffs of 8,000 employees. But it is Elon Musk who has the biggest week coming up.For one thing, the first test launch of SpaceX’s Starship in seven months is scheduled for Tuesday. A successful launch will boost investor interest in SpaceX’s upcoming IPO, not that it needs... Read more ›
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Everlane, a San Francisco-based startup that soared during the last decade’s e-commerce boom, will sell itself to Shein, a Chinese discount e-retail giant. The deal values Everlane at $100 million, a far cry from the valuations that it once received at its height. Everlane was among a group of ... Read more ›
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Chinese personal computer and server maker Lenovo Group said in an internal memo to staff last week that there have been no new licenses or policies regarding Nvidia’s H200 chips since March, when Washington approved the sales of the chips to some Chinese companies. Last week, Reuters and other ... Read more ›
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No part of Microsoft better illustrates its predicament in AI than GitHub. The AI boom has boosted usage and revenue of the code repository as well as GitHub Copilot, an AI coding assistant. But GitHub has struggled to respond to new AI coding competitors that have since overtaken it. And the service has suffered from frequent and major outages, peeving big customers and prompting Microsoft to issue an apology. In... Read more ›
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Nvidia might be on a tear, but some investors are still convinced that there’s demand for another kind of specialized chips. And they’re putting their money where their mouth is. For example: San Jose, Calif.-based SiMa.ai, which develops chips that work on devices such as drones or cameras, is in talks with investors to raise more than $100 million in new funding at a valuation of around $1.4 billion, according... Read more ›
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Good morning, Anissa here!The AI boom requires an enormous amount of new power plants, chips and data centers. But it also requires something that’s less visible: new financial plumbing that makes it possible to lend against this costly hardware.Miami fintech startup Barkr is one of the firms building the pipes, specifically for valuing AI chips being used as loan collateral, and has already attracted the attention of Nvidia. I recently... Read more ›
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Jurors rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, delivering a major victory to CEO Sam Altman in Silicon Valley’s biggest grudge match. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agreed with the jury’s decision. The nine-member jury’s decision on Monday, following three weeks of testimony and legal ... Read more ›
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Jurors rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, delivering a major victory to CEO Sam Altman in Silicon Valley’s biggest grudge match. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agreed with the jury’s decision on Monday that Musk waited too long to bring his lawsuit. The decision came after just two hours of deliberation following three weeks of testimony and legal arguments. Read more ›
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