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Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's digital surveillance state (Associated Press)

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Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, and others are preparing for AI agents, which could disrupt the travel agent business model and upend the $1.6T travel market (Financial Times)

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US jobseekers describe a hellish job market, with young people using ChatGPT to write their applications, HR using AI to read them, and few people getting hired (Annie Lowrey/The Atlantic)

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Genki will pay Nintendo damages over 3D-printed Switch 2

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Sources: Ant Group's Ant Digital Technologies is quietly working to link ~$8.4B of energy infrastructure and other real-world assets to its AntChain blockchain (Bloomberg)

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A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

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Xbox is coming to cars thanks to an LG and Microsoft partnership

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Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)

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Windows 11 SSD issues blamed on reviewers using ‘early versions of firmware’

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Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy (Wired)

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Amnesty: Pakistan is spying on millions via phone tapping and a Chinese-built internet firewall, in one of the broadest surveillance programs outside China (Ariba Shahid/Reuters)

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It’s time to change your Plex password again

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How David Sacks emerged as the most effective advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, using his tech expertise and All-In co-host status (Ben Smith/Semafor)

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Mistral raised a €1.7B Series C at an €11.7B valuation; ASML led the round with €1.3B to become its biggest shareholder, joined by a16z, DST, Nvidia, and others (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Helsinki-based ReOrbit, which builds satellites and a software platform to help countries fully control their satellite systems, raised a €45M Series A (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and £250K+ to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed 40M voters' private data to Chinese hackers (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19+ deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban (Gopal Sharma/Reuters)

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Evan Spiegel says Snap is restructuring around small "squads" of 10 to 15 people to compete better; Snapchat+ now brings in $700M+ in ARR from 15M+ paying users (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Sources: OpenAI execs fear rising political scrutiny in California could hinder its for-profit plans and have discussed moving out of the state as a last resort (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

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How VC firm 1789 Capital grew to $1B+ in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity (Reuters)

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