Tech

Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years to become executive chairman, replaced by Ashraf Alkarmi, who is SVP and GM of Dropbox Core (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-26 Dropbox

Google Fitbit Air review: slim, comfortable, and stylish, robust tracking, seven-day battery life, and cheaper than Whoop, but can only be worn on the wrist (www.theshortcut.com)
2026-5-26 Google Battery

The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-26 Netherlands

Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-26 Spain

Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-26 Spotify

OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26

Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26 Microsoft

Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised $250M led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E announced in May 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-26 Logistics

SEC filing: Quantinuum is seeking to raise $1.05B in its US IPO, marketing ~21M shares for $45 to $50 each, giving it a $12.7B valuation at the top of the range (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 IPO

Sources: SpaceX successfully pressured the Pentagon to raise Starlink fees for LUCAS kamikaze drones amid increasing tensions over Starlink's pricing (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Drone Pentagon SpaceX

This lifetime PDF editor is just $65 with code SAVE5 through 5/31 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

US law enforcement documents: the DHS, FBI, and other agencies introduce a novel domestic threat category termed “anti-tech violent extremism” amid the AI boom (www.wired.com)
2026-5-26 AI FBI

Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~$34.3M, above $21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 AI

7-Eleven data breach exposes personal information of 185,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

Microsoft: Domain Controller lookup may fail on Windows Server 2016 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26 Microsoft

CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-26

10 Times Saying the Wrong Thing Became a Death Sentence (listverse.com)
2026-5-26

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that “controlled” products are superior to unregulated AI “slop” (www.ft.com)
2026-5-26 AI Spotify

Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 11% YoY to ~$14.6B, its first quarterly decline in three years, and net income down 57% to $695M amid a global memory price jump (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 Xiaomi

As AI tools like Mythos create a “bug-pocalypse”, Glassdoor says Q1 cybersecurity job postings rose 11% YoY, and executive search firms are turning away clients (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals (www.ft.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-26 China Alibaba AI

Kelp DAO says its restaked Ether token has been restored after a five-week recovery effort following a $293M exploit by North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18 (cointelegraph.com)
2026-5-26 Korea

A Samsung union representing its consumer electronics division says it asked a South Korean court to block a pay deal vote that mainly benefits chip workers (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-26 Korea Samsung

10 Stars Who Secretly Wrote Hit Songs for Other Singers (listverse.com)
2026-5-26

A surge in AI-generated “pro se” cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Visually impaired Waymo users in CA say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them the discrimination they face from human drivers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-26

Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (www.bostonglobe.com)
2026-5-26

The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-26

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