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Google blocks Railway without warning, founder “gobsmacked” as platform goes dark
Railway, a cloud platform that spends millions each month on Google Cloud, suffered a major 8-hour outage after Google’s automated systems mistakenly suspended its production account. No warning. The founder says he’s “gobsmacked,” and is demoting GCP to backup-only.
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Intuit to lay off 17% of workforce by July 31 amid AI restructuring, memo says
Intuit is cutting about 3,000 jobs worldwide – roughly 17% of its workforce – as the TurboTax and QuickBooks maker restructures around AI investments and streamlined operations, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Asmongold accused of racist comments after Twitch clip with Hasan Piker
A short Twitch clip has pushed Asmongold into the center of a major online firestorm after an outburst about the genetics of black people caused major controversy.
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Coulthart says Trump knows the UFO truth, but Reddit isn’t so sure
Australian journalist Ross Coulthart claimed on X that US President Donald Trump is “indeed now briefed on the legacy UAP crash retrieval program.” But what followed on social media was a big debate on when and how this happened.
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US prosecutors target healthcare and pandemic scams worth over $1bn
The US Justice Department announced a series of enforcement actions last week, including a healthcare fraud conviction in Florida worth more than $1 billion and multiple cases involving wire fraud.
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Musk's X caves to UK pressure to crack down on hate speech, terror content
Elon Musk’s X will crack down on hate speech and terror-related content in the UK, promising British online safety regulator Ofcom that it will review any such content reported by users within within roughly 24 hours.
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Brussels’ DMA regulation handed Firefox millions of new users
Thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Mozilla has gained more than 6 million new users for its web browser Firefox.
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Engineer straps an RTX 5090 to a MacBook Air and actually gets it working
Many have tried and failed before – macOS simply can’t run external GPUs because it has no drivers. But one engineer has now found a way around it. A Linux virtual machine on a Mac with “enough elbow grease” can drive the most powerful consumer GPU, Nvidia RTX 5090, and play AAA games at 4K, though at a significant performance penalty.
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Suicide prevention website tracked and shared visitors’ data without consent
113, a national organization for suicide prevention in the Netherlands, collected and shared sensitive information from its website visitors with third parties without consent.
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Cops arrest online drug bazaar kingpin who sent gold bars to his home
German cops have arrested a man suspected of being the administrator of the now-defunct online drug bazaar Dream Market. It took years for the authorities to track Owe Martin Andresen down.
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Dutch privacy watchdog appoints ex-big tech lawyer as new chief
Geert Potjewijd spent nearly three decades helping big tech fight off privacy regulators. Now he has agreed to run the Dutch privacy watchdog that enforces those very rules.
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OpenAI’s Daybreak turns validation into AI cybersecurity’s battlefield
OpenAI has announced its new cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, intended to bolster enterprise-level defense. It relies on large language models (LLMs) and Codex-style agents to provide such protection.
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Meta must face allegations of improper Android user tracking, judge rules
Meta will have to face claims brought by Android users who say the company cynically and stealthily exploited vulnerabilities in Android smartphones to match users’ browsing activity to their Meta social media accounts. Why? For more detailed advertising profiles, of course.
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Canvas admits it paid hackers after finals-week cyberattack – but is student data truly safe?
Canvas by Instructure now admits it paid the hackers behind the massive finals-week cyberattack that disrupted schools worldwide and sparked fears about what could happen to potentially stolen student data.
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Trump heads to China with Musk, Cook, Boeing, and Wall Street CEOs as trade talks intensify
Trump will travel to China this week with Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Boeing, and Wall Street executives as the US and China discuss trade, rare earths, and aircraft deals.
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Fast-fashion giant Shein accuses rival Temu of mass copying in London trial
Online fast-fashion platform Shein accused Temu of copyright infringement "on an industrial scale", while Temu countered that Shein is using litigation to stifle competition, as a trial opened at London's High Court on Monday.
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Georgia data center secretly used 29M gallons of water, county refuses to fine facility
Investigators in Georgia found that the cause of unusually low water pressure in homes across Fayette County was a data center secretly drawing 29 million gallons through two water connections the county didn’t know existed. The outrage is real, but the county isn’t even planning to fine the developer.
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Taylor Swift, Cristiano Ronaldo lose millions of Instagram followers overnight
Instagram’s top celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kylie Jenner, woke up to a shocking drop in followers on Friday. Instagram wiped out millions of fake, bot, and “inactive” accounts in what netizens described as the "Great Purge of 2026".
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Stop Homophobie files complaint after Musk insults French magistrates
French anti-discrimination and anti-violence group Stop Homophobie filed a complaint against Elon Musk over his post on X, where he insulted French magistrates investigating his platform and made homophobic remarks.
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Palo Alto Networks prepares patches for critical PAN-OS firewall zero-day
US cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is preparing patches for a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting its PAN-OS firewalls. The attack is suspected to be linked to China.
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