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• Pokémon Sword & Shield adds missing creatures in two new expansions

  09-01-2020 20:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nintendo revealed during a special Direct today that Pokémon Sword & Shield is going to get even bigger. Developer Game Freak is releasing two major story expansions, each of which will come complete with new and returning monsters, along with free updates. It’s kind of a big deal. The two expansions are Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra. The former offers new clothes, rivals, and a dojo with a mentor called Mustard. The latter has a new form of co-op gameplay
  
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• A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer

  26-06-2026 18:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12957, and reported it to Amazon on April 20. Amazon patched the issue on May 12, and the disclosure went public today. The […]
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• Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched

  26-06-2026 18:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that “humans behave better when they’re being watched.” In a Substack essay titled “Visibility, Transparency and Trust,” he described what he called “radical transparency” as inevitable and positive, envisioning […]
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• Apple skips its high-end M6 chips for an AI-first M7

  26-06-2026 17:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is breaking its own playbook. It will skip the high-end versions of its M6 chip and leap to an AI-focused M7 line. Apple M7 chips, not the M6, will power its best Macs from 2027. Apple has changed how it rolls out Mac chips, and the shift is bigger than it sounds. The company […]
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• Aseon Labs raises ten million dollars to build parking-space-sized pods that charge and clean robotaxis

  26-06-2026 17:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Aseon Labs, a Redwood City startup building automated service pods for robotaxi fleets, has raised ten million dollars in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Y Combinator, Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s venture firm Expa, Robin Hood Ventures, and Founders Capital also participated, alongside angel investors including Mercury founder Immad Akhund, […]
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• onsemi to buy Synaptics in $7bn bet on ‘physical AI’

  26-06-2026 17:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  onsemi is buying Synaptics in an all-stock deal worth about $7bn. The onsemi Synaptics deal bets that AI’s next wave lives not in the cloud, but in cars, factories and robots. The chip industry has spent three years building for AI that runs in giant data centres. Onsemi just placed a bet on the opposite […]
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• Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs

  26-06-2026 16:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest overhaul in the carmaker’s history, and the unions are vowing to fight. Europe’s car industry is shrinking, and its biggest name is leading the retreat. Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut around 100,000 jobs at […]
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• California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs

  26-06-2026 16:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  California has built the first state tool to watch for AI wiping out jobs. The early read: no mass layoffs yet, but warning signs are flashing in the Bay Area and among college-educated workers. Everyone argues about whether AI is killing jobs. Almost nobody has hard data. California has now built a tool to find […]
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• OpenAI told Cannes it is “clearly in the advertising business now.” The numbers say it is barely in the door.

  26-06-2026 15:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, but it did not book a beach club on the Croisette alongside Meta, Amazon, and Google. Instead, the company summoned reporters and agency executives to a semi-secluded villa near the harbour, a staging choice that doubles as metaphor: OpenAI is in the ad business, […]
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• Patronus AI raises $50M to stress-test AI agents

  26-06-2026 15:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Patronus AI has raised $50m to build simulated worlds where AI agents can be tested before they touch a real system. The pitch borrows from Waymo: train in a replica before you trust the road. AI agents are meant to do real work now. They book trips, write code and run financial analysis on their […]
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• Malaysia intercepts $13M AI chip shipment bound for re-export

  26-06-2026 14:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  The shipment passed through Kuala Lumpur declared as ordinary computer components. Inside the 72 server units, Malaysian customs officers found something the paperwork did not mention: advanced artificial-intelligence chips worth 52.9 million ringgit, or about $13m, sitting in the airport’s free trade zone and waiting to move on. Malaysia’s customs department announced the seizure on […]
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• Zalando plunges after German regulator opens accounting review

  26-06-2026 14:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Germany’s financial regulator is reviewing a disclosure tied to the About You takeover. Zalando says it is formal and not material. The market disagreed, briefly. It took one regulatory headline to wipe a fifth off Zalando’s value. Shares in the German online fashion retailer fell as much as 20% in Tradegate premarket trading on Friday […]
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• France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory

  26-06-2026 13:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-service corps attached to the agency. The breach was detected on 19 June. What was taken, according to INSEE, […]
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• Swatch wants $170m from Samsung over copied watch faces

  26-06-2026 13:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  A London court already found 26 of Samsung’s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the bill. The fight between a Swiss watchmaker and the world’s largest phone maker has come down to a number, and the number is $170m. Swatch is asking the High Court in London to make […]
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• Kobo rejected 45% of self-published books last year, mostly over AI

  26-06-2026 12:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of the titles submitted to Kobo Writing Life, its self-publishing service, in 2025, and chief executive Michael Tamblyn attributes more than 80% of those rejections to books he judges to be manifestly […]
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• Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest

  26-06-2026 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected to announce plans to invest 1,000 trillion won, around $647.5bn, in South Korea over the next 10 years, according to local media reports that several outlets carried on 25 June. […]
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• The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release

  26-06-2026 11:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside critics. Now it has a government request attached. The Trump administration has asked OpenAI […]
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• Cargo drone startup Elroy Air nears an $800m SPAC deal

  26-06-2026 11:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company at about $1bn. The SPAC, declared dead more than once over the past few years, keeps finding new uses, and the latest is a cargo drone. Elroy Air, a California startup that wants to […]
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• TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia

  26-06-2026 11:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country’s communications minister said on 25 June. The bulk of the cuts came from one platform: TikTok deactivated 4.1 million accounts, while YouTube removed 600,000, according to Communications […]
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• SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers

  26-06-2026 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. The company has told investors it plans to launch a Starlink mobile service for US consumers, the Financial Times reported on 26 June, citing people familiar with the matter. If it happens, it […]
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• Airwallex raises $320m at an $11bn valuation, betting on agentic finance

  26-06-2026 10:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  A 38% jump in valuation over six months is the kind of figure that tells you where investor appetite has gone. Airwallex, the global payments company, has raised $320m in a Series H round that values it at $11bn, up from $8bn in December 2025. The raise is being directed squarely at the part of […]
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• Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise

  26-06-2026 10:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy’s competition authority has now decided to examine. On 26 June, the regulator said it […]
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• Australia’s teen social media ban works on paper, less so in practice

  26-06-2026 09:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a window open. On 26 June, six months after the world-first measure took effect, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was keen to make the ban as strong as possible, after […]
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• The hidden cost of complacency and Jay Roland’s mission against corporate America’s technical debt crisis

  26-06-2026 00:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  Corporate America is hemorrhaging money through inefficient IT business processes, and Jay Roland, founder of Varex Solutions, believes that the industry is complacent about it. Technical debt, which is the accumulated cost of deferred IT fixes, misconfigurations, and other operational inefficiencies, is projected to cost US enterprises $2.41 trillion a year, costing $1.52 trillion to fix. With numbers this staggering, Roland argues […]
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• Building trust in AI health intelligence: why privacy, transparency, and human oversight matter

  25-06-2026 23:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly visible part of healthcare. From administrative workflows and clinical decision support to remote monitoring and wellness technologies, organizations are exploring how AI can help process information more efficiently and provide greater visibility into health-related data. Yet as adoption accelerates, one challenge continues to influence whether these technologies gain meaningful acceptance. Trust has become […]
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• OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself

  25-06-2026 23:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nearly 98 percent of OpenAI’s employees now use Codex, the company’s AI coding agent, up from roughly 40 percent in August 2025, according to a paper the company published on Wednesday titled “The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex.” The paper describes a fundamental change in how the company’s own workforce interacts with AI, […]
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• Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand

  25-06-2026 23:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Coinspaid Dev (stylized as {coinspaid.dev}), the engineering team behind the infrastructure powering Coinspaid Solutions, has separated from Coinspaid as an independent engineering brand after more than a decade of building blockchain infrastructure. With more than 120 engineers and over 11 years of industry experience, Coinspaid Dev brings together software engineering, infrastructure, security and R&D teams with experience […]
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• Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor

  25-06-2026 22:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at roughly three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency, drained from more than 11 victims. The company said in a post on […]
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• Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job

  25-06-2026 21:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The company said the decision reflects a broader shift in how people interact with email, with AI agents increasingly handling triage, responses, and scheduling without requiring anyone to open an inbox. More than half […]
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• Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles

  25-06-2026 21:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems. The rule change, if adopted, would eliminate one of the largest remaining regulatory barriers for companies building purpose-built autonomous vehicles without traditional human controls. The proposal updates Federal […]
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