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Apple has extended its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to Google Cloud for the first time, allowing it to run AI workloads on non-Apple infrastructure while maintaining privacy guarantees. The collaboration integrates three layers of hardware trust and ensures stateless computation, enforceable guarantees, and verifiable transparency.

Google's new commercial envisions the founding fathers using Google Workspace and Gemini to draft the Declaration of Independence, sparking criticism for its corny and ill-advised portrayal of AI in historical context.

Apple's new Siri AI will be available on iPhone models compatible with Apple Intelligence, including iPhone 15 Pro and later, iPad, and Mac models with Apple silicon. The AI-powered assistant can handle complex queries and chained commands, with more customizable features on newer iPhone models.

Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Meta's AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as expected and the company's AI-related restructuring wasn't as smooth as hoped. Despite this, Zuckerberg expects significant benefits from AI investments within the next 3-6 months.

Anthropic released two models, Fable 5 and Sonnet 5. Fable 5 can create a working app from a single prompt, while Sonnet 5 is a more general model that doesn't impress. The article also discusses AI's limitations, such as struggling to create PowerPoint decks, and Anthropic's new venture into drug discovery.

Netflix uses service-level prioritized load shedding to enhance reliability. This approach allows for the shedding of lower-priority requests first, minimizing user impact. The system is designed to handle traffic spikes and prevent cascading failures.

A vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email service has been found to leak users' real email addresses. The service, launched in 2021, generates unique email addresses to forward messages to a user's personal email address. However, security researcher Tyler Murphy discovered that the service can be exploited to reveal the real email address behind the generated one. Apple was informed of the issue last summer but has yet to fix it.

Several popular smartphones from major manufacturers are in their last year of software support, including Samsung Galaxy S22, Google Pixel 6, and iPhone 11. This means they will soon stop receiving security updates, making them vulnerable to security threats. It's essential to check the support status of your phone and consider upgrading to a newer model to ensure your data remains secure.

Qilin has emerged as the dominant ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, holding around 16% of the cybercriminal market share. The group's growth can be attributed to its technically mature infrastructure, high affiliate payouts, and continuous technical innovation. However, its notoriety may attract unwanted attention from international authorities, potentially leading to law enforcement action.

The article discusses the blurred line between CSS states and JavaScript events, exploring how CSS pseudo-classes can be used to respond to events without JavaScript. It covers various pseudo-classes, such as :active, :focus, and :valid, and their equivalents in JavaScript. The article also touches on upcoming features like event triggers in CSS.

IQM, a full-stack quantum company from Finland, has gone public on the Nasdaq via a SPAC merger at a valuation of $1.9 billion. Despite the lukewarm welcome, IQM has acquired customers and is operating outside of Europe, with a recent establishment of a quantum tech center in Maryland.

Tesla has expanded its Robotaxi service to a small section of West Miami, with plans to further expand to other cities including Orlando, Tampa, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. The service operates without a safety monitor in the car, and customers are already using the autonomous ridehailing service.

A ransomware group, Vect, has partnered with TeamPCP, a cyber-criminal gang specializing in stealing credentials through supply chain attacks. This collaboration represents an 'unprecedented model of industrialized ransomware' and increases the risk of ransomware attacks for organizations that have had login credentials stolen by TeamPCP. The partnership combines TeamPCP's large-scale supply chain credential theft with Vect's ransomware-as-a-service operation, making it a potent threat.

A plaintiff in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit has revealed her identity and shared details of her life, including her struggles with mental health and self-harm. The case has sparked concerns about the impact of social media on young people's lives.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service, will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. Existing customers can continue using the service, but no new features will be introduced. The service was launched in 2005 for simple tasks and was later used for annotating data to train neural networks.

The US Energy Department has issued an emergency order allowing a major grid manager to require data centers to rely on backup power during a brutal heat wave, aiming to prevent blackouts and reduce strain on the grid. This move comes as data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity, are expected to push the power grid to its limits.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed Google's final appeal against a €4.1 billion antitrust fine. The fine was imposed due to Google's use of Android to promote its Chrome browser and search service, which the EU deemed an abuse of its dominant market position.

A court in India has ruled that domain registrars can no longer offer domain buyers the ability to obscure their information as a default option. GoDaddy is warning that this decision could fundamentally reshape the internet and compromise user privacy. The ruling would require registrars to undertake Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols and provide user data to law enforcement within 72 hours.

Spotify deleted over 500,000 artificial streams of a song after it suspiciously reached the top of the platform's daily US chart, potentially linked to betting on prediction market platforms like Kalshi.

Bending Spoons, a Milan-based tech conglomerate, has gone public with a market capitalization of over $25 billion. The company has acquired several notable brands, including AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote, and has a strategy of holding onto its acquisitions and making them more financially successful through tech and AI. With over 500 million monthly active users and 9 million monthly paying customers, Bending Spoons is looking to expand its portfolio and has identified over 1,000 potential acquisition targets.