Tech

The US awards $250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 Startup

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 Blockchain AI

Apple Raises Prices On Macs, iPads, and More By Hundreds of Dollars (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Apple

Order-tracking app Shop abused to push callback phishing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Support Case Data During Klue Breach (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Microsoft quietly extends the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 consumers by a year, letting eligible users get updates through October 12, 2027 (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft

Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft

This CISSP & risk management course bundle is $15 through 6/28 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

Anthropic Says Alibaba Must Be Punished For Largest Claude Cloning Attack (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Alibaba

Netris, which helps neoclouds automate network configuration to bring their data centers online faster, raised a $15M Series A from a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 ETH

Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox (9to5mac.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 Android IOS Google AI

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 (kotaku.com)
2026-6-26 Microsoft Xbox

Nebulock, which helps security teams proactively find and remediate threats across a company's security stack, raised a $25M Series A led by FirstMark (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26

Sources: Apple plans to skip higher-end M6 chips and launch its next Pro and Max chips in 2027 as part of the M7 lineup, to boost on-device AI capabilities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Apple

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors (slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 AI Ford

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman (www.axios.com)
2026-6-26 Startup AI

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $320M led by Khosla at a $2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Anthropic hires French telecom group Orange's Chief AI Officer Steve Jarrett to help Anthropic “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-26 France Europe AI Africa

Micron Locks In Historically High Memory Prices For Five Years (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26

Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-26 Google

Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 (kotaku.com)
2026-6-26 Sony

PirloTV sports piracy network disrupted as 44 domains seized (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

Bluekit phishing kit adopts browser-in-the-middle for login theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26 Browser

The Four Elevations of Effective Fraud Prevention (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-26

Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage”; the MacBook Neo rises from $599 to $699 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-26 AI Apple MacBook

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