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South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-16 Korea

Sources: Kalshi has probed and flagged 400+ suspicious trades YTD, more than 2x the number it investigated in all of 2025; Polymarket has seen a similar uptick (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-16

Browser & Identity Attacks Matrix: Map your exposure to 51 identity attack techniques [Free Resource] (pushsecurity.com)
2026-5-16 Browser

A Mexican Standoff With Iran (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-5-16 Mexico Iran

Yale medical school discriminates against Whites, Asians – DOJ (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16

Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US, operated by PJM, jumped 76% YoY to an average of $136.53/MWh in Q1 due to rampant demand from data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Stars, stripes, and missiles: What America's arsenal says about the wars to come (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16 U.S.

Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (www.thelec.net)
2026-5-16 Robot Nvidia

Sources detail friction between Samsung's memory and logic chip businesses over higher bonuses for memory chip workers, leading many to leave or apply elsewhere (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-16 Samsung

Kioxia and Dell Cram Nearly 10PB Into a Single 2U Server (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-16 AI YouTube

Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 YouTube

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (www.ft.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Israeli West Bank occupation an affront to Nakba Day legacy (RT reports) (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16 Israel

AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 AMD

A decade of lies: The US-funded biolab denial saga (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more (p3institute.substack.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Bitwarden Scrubs 'Always Free' and 'Inclusion' Values From Its Website (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-16

Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-16 Trump Nvidia AMD

The Era of 15GB Free Gmail Storage Is Ending (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-16 IPO SpaceX

Viral Russian traveler killed by Ukrainian drone – media (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16 Russia Drone Ukraine

Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised $30M at a $1.4B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
2026-5-16 Startup Quantum

Potato futures are soaring – should the world be worried? (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16

Funnel Builder WordPress plugin bug exploited to steal credit cards (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16 WordPress Credit Card

Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 California

Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 IPO AI Asset

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