Tech

Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind 'Space: 1999,' Dies At 86 (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18

Compare ChatGPT, Claude & more for $55 with this AI platform deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 AI

F5 issues out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18

Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 Startup AI Switzerland

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced US chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18

An in-depth look at Meta's AI-fueled rampage through its engineering organization, reassignments of engineers on core teams to data labeling, and more (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Trump, who entered office opposing AI regulation, is shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major uncertainty (www.axios.com)
2026-6-18 Trump AI

Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 Energy Nvidia

Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-18 Startup

Microsoft fixes Windows Server 2016 security update failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-18 Microsoft

Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that raised $5M, launches to advocate for AI safety legislation and counter pro-industry lobbying, running ads for Alex Bores (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term that investors should not poach its staff or encourage them to start own companies (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-18

AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18 Startup AI

Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18

Intel stock jumps around 9% in premarket trading, after Trump said “Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-18 Trump U.S. Intel Apple

China's EV Price War Was Built On Cars Sold At a Loss (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 China

A look at 764, an online group the FBI declared domestic terrorists due to members manipulating teen girls into sharing sexual pictures and cutting themselves (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 FBI Terrorism

A PwC study suggests that AI is rewarding companies that use it to enhance human skills, while leaving further behind those that use it merely to cut costs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 AI

As tech giants rush to build AI infrastructure, some residents living near data centers say a constant infrasonic vibration is ruining their health and homes (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 AI

The Bank of Korea warns rising bonuses at some South Korean chipmakers could fuel broader wage growth and consumer spending, complicating the inflation outlook (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 Korea

Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18

SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 SpaceX

South Korean and Taiwanese tech companies that helped build China's hardware sector during the smartphone boom now reap the AI boom as US curbs sideline China (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-18 China Korea Taiwan AI

Nation-state hackers are increasingly using preinstalled software on low-cost home devices to create residential proxy networks and mask cyberattack traffic (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-18

NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital (tech.eu)
2026-6-18 AI

A Blackstone-led consortium agrees to take control of software company Medallia from Thoma Bravo, which will lose the entire $5B it invested in Medallia (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18

Tesco Moving 40,000 Server Workloads Off VMware Amid Broadcom's 'Abusive Conduct' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-18 VMware

Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Hong Kong AI JPMorgan Goldman

Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-18 Microsoft AI

Midjourney unveils its first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, an ultrasound-based full-body scanner; it is unclear how AI fits into the medical effort (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-18 AI

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