Tech

Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-27 Russia

Uber expands the list of criminal convictions that disqualify US drivers and expands the background-check timeline, possibly removing ~0.5% of active US drivers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27 Uber

OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-27 India Uber

GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (openai.com)
2026-6-27

Polymarket customers lose $3 million in supply-chain attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-27

Cybersecurity firms targeted by fraudulent OpenAI organization invites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-27

OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says “this kind of government access process” should not become the long-term default (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-27

OpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government (www.axios.com)
2026-6-27

President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-27 Trump Tax

Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach (www.ft.com)
2026-6-27

Airbus Is Ordered To Inspect 16 Jets After Cracks Are Found In Wings (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-27 Airbus

Sources: Apple's 14" and 16" OLED touch screen MacBook Pros will be powered by the existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and have an updated industrial design (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-27 Apple MacBook

How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors (www.hyperdimensional.co)
2026-6-27 AI

Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-27

Your First GRC Agent: A Red Teamer's Walkthrough (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-27

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B; now it's worth $22B+ (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Trump Equity

Notion Mail Is Shutting Down (slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more (www.pcgamer.com)
2026-6-26 AI

One year of trusted Bitdefender antivirus protection is now only $20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

10 Strange High-Tech Tools Shaping Modern Politics (listverse.com)
2026-6-26

10 Extraordinary Places Humans Have Adapted to Live (listverse.com)
2026-6-26

Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 Italy Microsoft AI

A study of 408 teens in Australia finds 80%+ were still using social media three months after a ban came into force, citing inadequate age verification checks (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-26 Australia Ban

Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Greece

'Fingerprints' of Black Hole's Event Horizon Detected For First Time (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Startup AI London

Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 Japan IPO AI

Swiss watchmaker Swatch seeks $170M from Samsung in a London trial over 26 digital watch face apps that allegedly cloned luxury brand designs, including Omega (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 Samsung Switzerland London

Sources: SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell told investors during an IPO roadshow SpaceX may launch a Starlink mobile product and build its own terrestrial US network (www.ft.com)
2026-6-26 IPO Mobile SpaceX

Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Mobile Spain

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