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Meta announces new shopping and ad features, including affiliate marketing tools for Instagram and Facebook creators and a "buy now" button for Facebook ads (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

Techmeme

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp, who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)

Techmeme

Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content

The Verge - All Posts

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Techmeme

Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to "north of $120B" (Morgan Chittum/CNBC)

Techmeme

Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B in 2025, including $15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip; ARM jumps 6%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

Techmeme

Lightroom End Marks

Michael Tsai

Background Garmin iPhone Syncing in EU

Michael Tsai

AppGrid Updates Blocked From App Store

Michael Tsai

Roots of Truth Abyss puzzle walkthrough in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides

The Verge - All Posts

NASA wants to put a $20 billion base on the Moon

The Verge - All Posts

Following Google’s Lead With Pixel Phones, Samsung Announces AirDrop Support With Galaxy S26 Phones

Daring Fireball

At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is "troubling" and that "it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic" (Maria Curi/Axios)

Techmeme

Fortnite's pricey and controversial Peak skins look even worse now

Polygon - All

What is ICE actually doing at the airport?

The Verge - All Posts

Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Techmeme

A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Techmeme

Robert Mueller Dead At 81

The Onion