Tech

Venmo is implementing a major privacy update to set new users' posts to “friends only” by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-12

Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a $275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12

Why Changing Passwords Doesn't End an Active Directory Breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-11 AI

Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware like Logitech G at no extra cost (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-11 Xbox

Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of “prominent cybercrime threat actors” using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

Sources: Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 France AI

Linux Kernel Starts Retiring Support for AMD's 30-Year-Old K5 CPUs (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 Linux AMD

Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

In a two-week UK High Court trial, Shein accuses Temu of “industrial scale” copyright infringement of its photos; Temu says Shein is suing to stifle competition (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-11

SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at $150-$160 each, up from 28M shares at $115-$125, aiming to raise up to $4.8B at an up to $34.4B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 IPO

Webinar this week: Prevention alone is not enough against modern attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11

Sources: Kuaishou plans to spin off its Kling AI video unit for an IPO in 2027 and is seeking a $20B valuation in pre-IPO funding talks with potential investors (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-11 IPO AI

Home use is covered with this refurbished Lenovo Chromebook—just $80 today (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11 Lenovo

The European Commission says it is in ongoing discussions with OpenAI and Anthropic to access their latest AI models; OpenAI is “proactively offering” access (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-11 Europe AI

Filing: Wise plans to debut on the Nasdaq as WSE, and relist in London for its secondary listing; Wise reports year-to-March net revenue up 19% YoY to $2.5B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 London

Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pre-load files for Forza Horizon 6 to Steam, leaking the PC version before its release next week (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-5-11 Microsoft

Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-11

Musk v. Altman: profiles of US judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an Obama-nominated blunt and efficient operator, and Elon Musk's and OpenAI's attorneys (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-11 Elon Musk

Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025 (variety.com)
2026-5-11 Samsung

Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games raised a $70M Series B led by Balderton Capital, after raising $30M in 2025, taking its total funding to $103M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Mobile Startup

TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, after testing the option in 2023 (www.thesun.co.uk)
2026-5-11

TrickMo Android banker adopts TON blockchain for covert comms (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11 Blockchain Android

The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately (blog.himanshuanand.com)
2026-5-11

Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it (www.ft.com)
2026-5-11 AI

Ford's Electrified Vehicle Sales Dropped 31% in April From One Year Ago (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 Ford

A look at “YouTube whisperers” like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-11 YouTube

Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-5-11 China Quantum

SoftBank partners with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX to mass produce next-gen data center batteries in Japan at the scale of one GWh per year in FY 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Japan Korea

Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-11

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