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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps

Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt in. But […]

World · Al Jazeera

Police execute controlled World War II–era Mine explosion

Video footage released by police on Sunday shows Slovak bomb disposal experts executing a mine detonation.

World · Al Jazeera

Trump demands Iran ‘put up the white flag of surrender’ as MoU expires

President also claims US is in direct contact with IRGC, denies a rush to end conflict ahead of November's US midterms.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

Cloud & Infrastructure · Azure Blog

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Cloud-native platforms are becoming the foundation for AI transformation. Discover how Microsoft's Azure application platform helps organizations modernize, innovate, and operate AI-powered applications at scale. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

AI · The Decoder

AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training

Amazon buys large quantities of printed books, scans them as AI training data, and destroys them in the process. The article AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training appeared first on The Decoder .

World · BBC World

Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it 'gets in the way' over Iran deal

Trump's threat on Oman, which has been holding its own talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, comes as a 60-day window for peace negotiations expires.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

WiiM’s capable HomePod-esque smart speaker is almost $50 off

The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 services, and it sports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and ethernet, […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries

Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching one million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orchestrating drone deliveries in Texas since 2025. The news comes […]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

World · BBC Europe

Boy, seven, among four injured after crash that killed five teenagers in Ireland

A car in which the five teenagers were travelling in was going the wrong way down a motorway in County Kildare.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331423 Points: 242 # Comments: 108

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

ElevenLabs MCP in Claude

Create and manage ElevenLabs voice agents in your chat Discussion | Link

World · Al Jazeera

Iran signals readiness for ‘US ground operations’ as MoU expires

Iran's more offensive posture follows Trump's comment that the US would soon make the Strait of Hormuz its territory.

AI · The Decoder

OpenAI signs record Ohio data center lease with Nvidia backing up to $105 billion

OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becomes the exclusive chip supplier. According to the Wall Street Journal, nine tech companies now hold around $3 trillion in AI commitments that don't appear on any balance sheet. The article OpenAI signs record Ohio data center lease with Nvidia backing up to $105 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

World · Al Jazeera

Boat sets sail from Bristol, aiming to break Israel’s siege of Gaza

Twelve people including the captain are on board the vessel named Kate, in the latest attempt to deliver aid.

World · Deutsche Welle

Norway: World's top wealth fund flags stock market risks

The head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund has warned that soaring AI-driven stock valuations could trigger a sharp correction. How exposed is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund to a market downturn?

Business · CNBC Technology

Nvidia backing $105 billion in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio

Technology giants are shelling out billions to scale capacity to meet massive data center demand.

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Finland halts deportation of Russian family who ‘risked everything’ to oppose Ukraine invasion

Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov say they were facing jail and potential torture after asylum case was rejected A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will have their case reconsidered. Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities – including a military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them – for expressing opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith

Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere in our feeds. Why […]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Points: 359 # Comments: 233

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach

Hackers used compromised credentials to access enterprise and personal tax-related data. The post 680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek .

World · Deutsche Welle

Indonesia neutrality tested by joint naval drill with China

Indonesia maintains a nonaligned foreign policy, but Jakarta's limited participation in a low-level naval exercise with China's navy near Taiwan has raised concerns.