Alvaro Lopez Ortega / 2026-06-25 Briefing

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Amazon pours another $13B into India’s AI and cloud infrastructure

Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act

Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it’s off by default

ZTE builds a TCO-optimal AI factory to fuel token economy

PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging OEX architecture SuperPODs and multi-dimensional co-design to maximize tokens per second and lower total cost of ownership for scaled inference

Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting

CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas

ZTE CDO Cui Li at MWC Shanghai 2026: unlocking value and embracing uncertainty in the AI era

PARTNER CONTENT: Embracing uncertainty with flexible architecture, ZTE drives full-stack AI value across telecom, enterprises, and smart homes at MWC Shanghai 2026

ZTE showcases full-stack AI capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, empowering new era of token operat…

PARTNER CONTENT: Driving end-to-end synergy across AI factories, next-gen AIOS, and 6G-ready networks to maximize token efficiency and lower operational costs

IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom

Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions

Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group’s budget or how its members were chosen

Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another

The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone

The CPU’s growing role in agentic AI infrastructure

PARTNER CONTENT: As agentic AI systems scale across cloud and datacenter environments, CPUs remain the control plane coordinating performance and efficiency.

UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found

And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field

Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing …

Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs

Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their …

To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits

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How ARM64 Instructions Are Really Encoded

How ARM64 Instructions Are Really Encoded Introduction If you’ve ever looked at ARM64 assembly on Apple Silicon (M1 and newer), you’ve probably seen instructions such as: add x0, x1, #42 Most programmers stop there. The assembler converts the instruction into machine code, the CPU executes it, and everything works. But what does the instruction actually look like inside the processor? Unlike x86, where instruction lengths vary between one and fifteen bytes, every AArch64 instruction occupies…

New @bitCast Semantics and LLVM Backend Improvements

Devlog This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. Also available as an RSS feed. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. New @bitCast Semantics and LLVM Backend Improvements Author: Matthew Lugg (Quite long devlog coming up, apologies—I got a little carried away with this one!) A few weeks ago, I began working on a branch implementing an improvement to the LLVM backend which had been planned for a long…

tropius: detect AI tropes in prose

tropius# tropius is a CLI to detect AI tropes in prose. How# We use a pattern dictionary in TOML based on a trope list from Tropes.fyi Text ↓ Aho-Corasick phrase matcher ↓ Structural, repetition, and character-class detectors ↓ Findings report Usage# Scan text from stdin: printf ‘Let us delve into this robust ecosystem.’ | cargo run -q -p tropius-cli Scan article text extracted from a live URL with lectito:

Install lectito

cargo install lectito-cli lectito…

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul Selamat, Neil Brown, joelchrono, and moddedbear among them), so I got curious and ordered one. First impressions Out of the box, the X4 is lightweight, properly light, the kind where I’d forget it’s in my pocket. The display is crisp for its size, and the device ships with a branded 16GB microSD card (cute touch)…

Ubiquiti UniFi OS devices targeted: CISA orders the patching of critical bugs

Ubiquiti UniFi OS devices targeted: CISA orders the patching of critical bugs Having network access is all it takes for an attacker to access files, run arbitrary commands, and completely compromise a wide range of unpatched UniFi OS systems, including routers, firewalls, gateways, network video recorders, corporate software, and others. CISA warns that attackers are already exploiting critical bugs.

Hackers are actively exploiting 3 critical UniFi vulnerabilities to build botnets.

CISA…

Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as chip shortage drives up costs

Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as chip shortage drives up costs Apple has raised prices of its iPad and MacBook line-up, saying it can no longer absorb surging memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI data centre boom, marking a rare move that shows even the world’s most valuable consumer tech company is feeling pressure from a global supply squeeze reshaping the PC and smartphone industry.

Apple has increased prices on several iPad and MacBook models, saying it can no longer absorb…

UK Scouts launch AI badges while US Girl Scouts use Google-backed programmes

UK Scouts launch AI badges while US Girl Scouts use Google-backed programmes While national governments and tech giants search for ways to regulate teen activity online, some groups are taking matters into their own hands. For example, Scouts are now introducing new badges on artificial intelligence, digital communication, and online safety.

UK Scouts are introducing new badges focused on AI, digital communication, and online safety, aimed at helping teenagers navigate increasingly…

EU plans stricter rules for Amazon and Microsoft cloud services to ease switching between providers

EU plans stricter rules for Amazon and Microsoft cloud services to ease switching between providers EU antitrust regulators said Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud computing services should be designated as “gatekeepers” under landmark tech rules, a step that would subject them to strict obligations aimed at curbing market power.

The EU is considering bringing Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under its “gatekeeper” rules in a major expansion of the Digital Markets Act into cloud…

What happens if you buy a fake Apple Watch from Target?

What happens if you buy a fake Apple Watch from Target? There’s a reason why you might want to unbox your Apple Watch or AirPods while you’re still at the counter.

Fake Apple products at Target typically get there via fraudsters who buy a genuine item, swap it with a counterfeit, reseal the box, and return it.

Most store employees only inspect the box exterior and receipt, rarely verifying the serial number.

Because this is a known, ongoing issue, employees tend to process refunds for…

Microsoft: 2 ransomware groups hit SharePoint in parallel attacks

Microsoft: 2 ransomware groups hit SharePoint in parallel attacks A Microsoft investigation into a ransomware case found that 2 different attackers operated simultaneously, demonstrating that modern attacks are not always isolated events and require different responses. The activity was linked to on-premises SharePoint servers that were targeted through known vulnerabilities.

Microsoft found that two separate threat actors were operating inside the same compromised environment at the same…

“This is what happens when you stop asking politely:” Burlison demands 1952 UFO video

“This is what happens when you stop asking politely:” Burlison demands 1952 UFO video Congressman Eric Burlison has taken to X to reveal that MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has agreed to disclose a historical UFO video from 1952, commonly known as a “flying saucer talk.”

Congressman Eric Burlison says MIT Lincoln Laboratory has agreed to hand over a long-sought 1952 UFO briefing video to Congress.

The footage reportedly shows Project Blue Book director Edward Ruppelt briefing top scientists and…

Snyk slashes jobs and races to reinvent itself to keep up with AI

Snyk slashes jobs and races to reinvent itself to keep up with AI Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk has announced a 4th round of layoffs, shedding 90 employees in Israel and worldwide. The company is reorganizing to “move faster” with AI, at a time when Claude Code might be nibbling at its lunch.

Snyk cuts approximately 90 jobs in its 4th round of layoffs.

The company is reorganizing to prioritize its AI Security Platform development.

Snyk’s cuts come amid broader industry-wide cybersecurity…

27 million passwords seized as Microsoft and EU authorities knock down malware infrastructure

27 million passwords seized as Microsoft and EU authorities knock down malware infrastructure Authorities have knocked out 3 of the cybercrime world’s favorite malware tools used to launch ransomware attacks, seizing 27 million stolen passwords in the process.

An international Operation Endgame dismantled the SocGholish, StealC, and Amadey malware networks, disrupting a major source of ransomware and cybercrime attacks.

Authorities seized 27 million stolen login credentials affecting more…

What sovereignty? Internet traffic of millions of Europeans flows through Chinese routers

What sovereignty? Internet traffic of millions of Europeans flows through Chinese routers Despite Europe stepping up its efforts to achieve its digital sovereignty, a lot of the continent’s internet traffic flows through Chinese-made routers, putting Europeans at risk of cyber espionage.

A new study has found that Chinese manufacturers account for 37% of home networking devices in the EU.

This exposes users to the risks of cyber espionage and of having their devices turned into…

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of industrial-scale AI extraction as China unveils Mythos rival

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of industrial-scale AI extraction as China unveils Mythos rival In a bombshell geopolitical accusation, Anthropic says Chinese tech giant Alibaba has conducted an “industrial-scale” campaign to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI models – just as Beijing on Tuesday unveils its own answer to the company’s powerful vulnerability-hunting system, Mythos.

Anthropic says operators linked to Alibaba generated nearly 29 million interactions with Claude in its…

Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best

Democratic and authoritarian countries are competing to see which of them can carry out mass surveillance most and best (worst). State mass surveillance USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world. There are two types of mass surveillance. Commercial, which you can read about here. And mass surveillance carried out by states and…

Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more

Apple has raised prices across the board for many of its products today. MacBook Neo now starts at $699 (up from $599), while MacBook Air now starts at $1299 (up from $1099). Other impacted products include MacBook Pro, iPad, iPad Air, and many more. iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods pricing is unchanged. Why is Apple increasing prices? Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed the company would increase product prices in an interview last week. Cook explained that price increases had simply become…

Why Does Everyone Hate AI?

Why Does Everyone Hate AI? It’s the fear, the enshittification, datacenter hostility, and the tech broligarchy Many readers are probably aware of the scene in the video above: Eric Schmidt, the ex-CEO of Google, recently gave a commencement speech in which he heralded the coming of AI — and was loudly booed by the students. This was not an outlier. There have been a number of similar incidents lately, evidence that many people now really hate AI. Are we talking about a vocal but…

“Hey Nico, you didn’t vibe code it, you stole Papermark’s open source code”

We didn’t want to spend $1000s on DocSend, so we built it ourselves (and for you). Today, we’re releasing DataRoom (by @UseCorgi) so you don’t have to overspend on simple sharing features. 72 24 692 202,584 Hey Nico, It looks like you didn’t vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark’s open source and enterprise-licensed code. We demand you take this copyright and license infringing product down immediately. It’s not moving fast and breaking things, it’s fraud. It makes the rest of…

LLM APIs with built-in chatbot in 1 line of code

Publication Reading Time Serving LLMs with the Flama CLI Flama 2.0 brings first-class support for generative AI: downloading, packaging, and serving large language models (LLMs) is now as simple as running a few commands in your terminal. No boilerplate code, no custom serving infrastructure, no configuration files. Just the CLI and a model. In this post, we walk through the entire workflow: fetching a model from HuggingFace, interacting with it locally in your terminal, and serving it over…

LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

LastPass users are once again being warned about stolen personal data, though this time the breach happened through one of the company’s outside partners. Here are the details. LastPass says password vaults not affected As reported by TechCrunch, LastPass is emailing users affected by a breach at market research firm Klue, which allowed hackers to access customer information and support case data. The news came as LastPass shared more information on a blog post, where it explained: The…

Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606

Welcome to the Progress Report for Dolphin Release 2606. We usually prefer to launch toward the beginning of the month, but a slew of important, large, and technically challenging changes had us working overtime. Strap in, because we have a lot to cover! For April Fool’s we teased that Dolphin now had support for the Game Boy Player, but the joke was that it was real! We’ll detail exactly how it happened and the challenges that surrounded getting the emulated hardware and software working…

Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported

AISLE Discovers 6 New CVEs in curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported Author AISLE Research TeamDate Published Curl runs on more than 30 billion devices. As one of the most important pieces of software in the world, it facilitates data transfers to and from operating systems, containers, appliances, CI pipelines, package managers, SDKs, cars, and is even on Mars inside NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter. Billions of users never run the curl command directly, but still depend on libcurl, the…

Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition

BREAKING: Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a global first by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to management today, Wednesday 24th of June requesting their right to be represented by the United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW) section of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) The workers…

DRAM Price Fixing Scandal

DRAM price fixing scandal In 2002, the United States Department of Justice, under the Sherman Antitrust Act, began a probe into the activities of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) manufacturers in response to claims by US computer makers, including Dell and Gateway, that inflated DRAM pricing was causing lost profits and hindering their effectiveness in the marketplace.[1][2] To date, five manufacturers have pleaded guilty to their involvement in an international price-fixing conspiracy…

Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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GTA 6 Physical Copies Won’t Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box

Rockstar will sell physical copies of Grand Theft Auto 6 — though you’ll only get a box containing a digital download code. This morning, Rockstar announced that it will finally begin GTA 6 pre-orders at midnight tonight, with various options available. Alongside a digital pre-order, fans will also be able to buy GTA 6 in a box — though no disc will be included inside. On the upside, physical copies will be available from November 12, in advance of the game’s actual launch on November 19. This…

The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

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Every morning, Joshua Wang sits down at his computer with a pastry and a can of cold, black coffee to look for the latest papers based on data from a popular research platform called TriNetX. Studies based on the platform—which provides access to anonymized electronic health records for more than 300 million patients in the United States and abroad—have skyrocketed in recent years. Wang, a neuroscientist at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital who trains researchers there to use TriNetX, has noticed another…

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

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Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

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Writers and Drugs

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Bitcoin hits 20-month low as market sentiment sours

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Ending respiratory infections

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Mixing Visual and Textual Code

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Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” access its Claude artificial intelligence model using thousands of fraudulent accounts that undermine the US AI developer’s decision to keep its products out of China. Anthropic claimed that a campaign by operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab targeted Claude’s most prized capabilities, including software…

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to bet…

Google is reorganizing its recently launched strike team working on AI coding tools to try to catch up with Anthropic …

Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80…

For months, Kleiner Perkins partner Aditya Naganath had been mulling over his investing thesis that the next wave of AI wasn’t going to be a chatbot …

Apple says “the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand f…

Apple Inc. took the extreme measure of raising prices of Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro on Thursday …

Apple raises its Mac and iPad prices 15% to 25%, saying it’s “never seen a component price increa…

Increases come a week after Tim Cook said higher memory costs made them ‘unavoidable’

Australian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel’s Addition at an $11B valuati…

Amid allegations of sharing customer data with China, Australian payments startup Airwallex, now valued at $11 billion, is gunning for Stripe and Ramp.

Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer mode…

AI models can be ‘like schizophrenic geniuses,’ says CEO who raised $100 million in round led by Khosla Ventures

Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B i…

Revenue from artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point, showing that the hundreds of billions of dollars tech companies …

Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are “the largest and second largest” cloud servic…

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Amazon Web Services face tough European Union guardrails after regulators said they should be targeted by the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.

How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits o…

Catastrophe scientists are pushing past the limits of physics-based models, improving how insurers calculate risk

A profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy, advised Sequoia India, and…

Kunal Shah has experience in building transaction platforms and insights into emerging markets

Alibaba’s Hong Kong stock closed down 4.43% after Anthropic accused Alibaba of “illicitly” access…

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares slid to a 16-month low in Hong Kong after Anthropic PBC accused the Chinese technology giant of …

Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50%+ of the hyperscale cloud com…

TAIPEI — SoftBank-backed chip designer Arm says it has hit a milestone in its decades-long challenge to Intel and AMD …

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is designing data center chips specifically for Chin…

NEW YORK — Qualcomm unveiled its data center chip lineup on Wednesday, becoming the latest chipmaker to enter the AI processor race …

As China’s working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied A…

The country’s workforce is set to fall to 300mn by the end of the century.  Beijing wants humanoids to narrow the labour gap.

How a $45M donation to a group supporting Trump brought Larry Ellison deeper into Trump’s circle,…

The billionaire’s private friendship with the president has helped Oracle’s business and his son’s media conglomerate

Assort Health, which develops AI voice agents for health care to handle scheduling and more, rais…

Assort Health Menlo Ventures agentic AI voice AI  —  Assort Health picked up $120 million in series C funding …

Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers’ own clouds to help them skip p…

Tsuga, a Paris startup building observability software for the age of AI agents, has raised a $35m Series A …

TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran’s central bank, have moved over $3.84…

Iranian entities have moved more than $3.84 billion in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx, according to an analysis of public blockchain data

NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan’s most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositar…

Kioxia Holdings Corp. plans to offer US depositary shares in the spring of 2027 and a stock split to take advantage of runaway demand …

Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of huma…

Facebook parent is accelerating plans to use large language models to review content and ads across its platforms.

New Zealand-based Partly, which develops an AI model for the auto parts industry, raised a $50M S…

Partly Group Ltd., a New Zealand startup using artificial intelligence to change up the automotive parts business …

The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constr…

The Netherlands is lobbying the US to not expand export controls on semiconductor equipment, a move that would constrain ASML Holding NV’s ability to sell to China.

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to hel…

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a standalone AI companion app designed …

Digital advocacy firms like CiviClick and Influent appear to use AI to generate mass public comme…

From California to North Carolina, officials weighing policy changes are being inundated with comments via platforms that tout AI capabilities.

An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedl…

Middlemen lurking on message apps like WeChat offer access to company employees they say can grant favors for a price.

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfie…

For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and maintaining enterprise software.