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Some WordPress veterans and the Linux Foundation start FAIR, a federated update network to decentralize WordPress infrastructure and boost supply chain security (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company)
2025-06-08 01:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
2025-06-08 00:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2025-06-08 00:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
2025-06-07 20:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5 at age 74 from pancreatic cancer (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
2025-06-07 22:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
2025-06-07 19:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
2025-06-07 18:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content (Lizzie Dearden/New York Times)
2025-06-07 17:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: ByteDance replaced some TikTok Shop's US staff in Seattle with China-based managers after 2024 revenue hit $9B, far short of its $17.5B goal (Bloomberg)
2025-06-07 16:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft plans to add a "safety" category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (Financial Times)
2025-06-07 15:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
2025-06-07 14:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights (Rest of World)
2025-06-07 07:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-06-07 07:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A profile of Panos Panay, head of devices and services at Amazon, who has scaled back new releases to focus on perfecting products like Alexa+ before rollout (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-07 11:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M (Bloomberg)
2025-06-07 07:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M+ (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
2025-06-07 06:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
2025-06-07 06:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Beijing-based Kuaishou's stock climbs after the company said it expects its video-generation service Kling AI to hit $100M in annual revenue by February 2026 (Bloomberg)
2025-06-07 05:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform (Ashwin Manikandan/Reuters)
2025-06-07 05:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
2025-06-07 04:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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