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• Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level

  12-06-2026 21:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cloud Architect Nodir Safarov, who leads migration and infrastructure automation for thousands of global clients at SOTI Inc., identifies the architectural failures behind the most common cloud security gaps and the design principles that prevent them. Enterprise cloud adoption has accelerated faster than enterprise cloud security. As organizations migrate critical workloads to AWS, Azure, and multi-cloud environments, many […]
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• 80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

  12-06-2026 22:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984. One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port […]
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• India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals

  12-06-2026 22:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bangalore-based Avataar AI has launched Varya, one of India’s first homegrown video AI models. It generates video at roughly $0.005 per second, or 0.48 rupees. Founder Sravanth Aluru, a former Deutsche Bank investment banker and Microsoft and IIT Mumbai alum, says that is 27 times cheaper than comparable open-source video models. The cost advantage comes […]
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• China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs

  12-06-2026 21:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips as a strategic route around Washington’s tightening grip on conventional semiconductor exports. The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrated Photonic Computing Chips and Systems opened on 11 June at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the state-backed Jiefang Daily reported. The lab is […]
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• SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok

  12-06-2026 21:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facility work for its own AI models. Bloomberg reported on Friday that SpaceX encountered latency issues when trying to connect the Memphis site to two other data centre campuses located more than 10 […]
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• London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first

  12-06-2026 21:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with fringe events running across the city through Friday. The festival drew more than 30,000 people from over 130 countries, with 600-plus speakers. One theme swallowed the rest: AI featured in roughly half […]
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• Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist

  12-06-2026 20:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Spotify is adding short-form videos from its editorial team to New Music Friday, its flagship weekly playlist for new releases. The videos feature Spotify’s curators sharing their picks, spotlighting rising artists, and explaining the stories behind songs and albums. The feature is rolling out to free and premium users in the US first. “New Music […]
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• Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

  12-06-2026 20:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on. CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says the point is not the percentage but the choice. “Our community was pretty vocal, especially during the CEO announcement, that […]
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• Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts

  12-06-2026 19:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise. The group used AI, including Google’s own Gemini, to generate phishing websites and send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands. It sent 2.5 million fraudulent texts to Android users in a two-week period. The operation […]
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• IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”

  12-06-2026 19:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system” if they fall into the wrong hands. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva made the comments in Brussels while presenting the Fund’s annual economic assessment of the eurozone. “What we recognize […]
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• From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once

  12-06-2026 19:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful of anxieties: generative AI, streaming fraud, underpaid songwriters, and the organisations meant to protect them. Four issues, in particular, dominated the agenda. Each one carries the potential to […]
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• Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage

  12-06-2026 17:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the world, starting shortly before 10am ET. By midday it was recovering, unevenly, region by region. The trouble appeared to begin on WhatsApp, then spread. Facebook users were abruptly logged out, met with a “Query […]
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• Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland

  12-06-2026 16:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office for Level 4 autonomous driving, Baidu said. Level 4 means the vehicle drives itself within a defined area. Open-road trials began on 1 […]
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• Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America

  12-06-2026 16:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, at no cost, to all legally blind US veterans. “Meta AI on these glasses can describe what’s around you, read documents, and help you navigate daily life more […]
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• Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team

  12-06-2026 16:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in March 2025. The fund backs early-stage British medical-technology companies, and it is now fully closed. The milestone is not only the money. Thena is the first all-female general partner team to win […]
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• Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO

  12-06-2026 16:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  EngineAI, a Chinese maker of humanoid robots, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Shenzhen-based startup is working with China International Capital Corp and Citic Securities on the possible share sale. The company is only three years old. It raised […]
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• Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation

  12-06-2026 15:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. That would nearly double the price investors put on Europe’s leading AI startup just months ago. The talks are early, and the terms could change. The valuation may even […]
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• SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’

  12-06-2026 15:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX rang the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday, marking its Nasdaq debut as a public company with the largest IPO on record. It did so in typical fashion. Hours earlier, a Falcon 9 rocket had launched a batch of Starlink satellites into orbit. “What other company would do something like that on the day it […]
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• Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent

  12-06-2026 15:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the coding agent into the weapon. When a developer asks the agent to […]
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• OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud

  12-06-2026 14:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed. Codex is on a tear. OpenAI says more than 5 million people now use it each week, up 400 per cent since […]
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• Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China

  12-06-2026 14:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the talks. It is a workaround dressed as a product launch. Nvidia’s China business has collapsed under US export controls. Jensen Huang said in […]
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• A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.

  12-06-2026 14:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  A SpaceX-Tesla merger has moved from rumour toward roadmap. On the day SpaceX began trading, the people around Elon Musk stopped waving the idea away. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell did the floating. Asked about merger chatter by CNBC, she said a tie-up “might make Elon’s life a little easier.” She added that “there are synergies […]
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• Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.

  12-06-2026 13:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Founders Fund’s SpaceX bet has become one of the great venture trades. Peter Thiel’s firm put around $600m into the rocket company. At the IPO price, that stake is worth more than $50bn. That is roughly an 80-fold return. Few venture bets have ever paid out on this scale. The figure comes from Bloomberg. Founders […]
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• Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak

  12-06-2026 13:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Current Series E is in. The New York neobank raised $80m, led by Springcoast Partners, at a $1.5bn valuation. That headline hides the real story. In 2021, Andreessen Horowitz valued Current at $2.2bn. The new round sits about a third below that peak. So this is a down round. It is also, the company […]
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• The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.

  12-06-2026 13:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  A UK under-16 social media ban, for years a fringe idea, is now days from becoming government policy. Ministers are expected to outline the plan to Parliament on Monday, ahead of the 18 June Makerfield by-election, according to POLITICO, which cited people familiar with discussions inside the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and No. […]
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• SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab

  12-06-2026 12:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk is now worth more than $1 trillion. The SpaceX IPO, which priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each on 12 June, valued the company at roughly $1.77 trillion and pushed Musk past a threshold no individual has ever crossed. His SpaceX stake alone is worth an estimated $866.5 billion, according to the updated IPO prospectus. […]
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• Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents

  12-06-2026 12:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The product launch came first. Pleo unveiled a suite of “agentic” AI, […]
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• Starlink is SpaceX’s cash machine, but the maths is getting harder

  12-06-2026 12:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX’s satellite internet service had 10.3 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2026, more than double the 4.4 million it reported a year earlier. That growth rate is extraordinary by any standard in telecommunications, let alone for a business that delivers broadband from orbit. But the S-1 prospectus SpaceX filed ahead of what would […]
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• Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites

  12-06-2026 12:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation it calls the Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group sent more than 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to Android users over a two-week period in May. The messages contained links to fake websites designed to steal personal information, and the scammers reportedly used Google’s own […]
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• UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups

  12-06-2026 12:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has pledged to strengthen efforts to channel institutional investment into UK tech companies. Speaking to Bloomberg TV during London Tech Week, Kendall said the government would pursue legal reforms to how pension funds are run. “I’m sure you’ll see more movement on that very soon,” she said. The interview was recorded before […]
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