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Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/ex-openai-applied-compute-raises-20m…

Ex-OpenAI Staffers Raise $20M For New Startup Applied Compute
The reinforcement learning startup founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil was valued by VCs at Benchmark, Sequoia and others at $100 million pre-launch.

Neuralink raises $600 million in funding, valuing brain-computer interface company at $9 billion https://www.ainvest.com/news/neuralink-raises-600-million-funding-valuing-brain-computer-interface-company-9-billio…

Neuralink raises $600 million in funding, valuing brain-computer interface company at $9 billion
Neuralink raises $600 million in funding, valuing brain-computer interface company at $9 billion

TikTok and iHeartRadio launch a singing competition show on TikTok Live; contestants will advance through rounds based on viewer engagement and judges' scores (Tomšs Mier/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-n

TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
TikTok and iHeartRadio launch 'Next Up: LIVE Music,' a new TikTok Live competition giving unsigned artists a shot at stardom starting this month.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at another site ban in India, China’s ‘convenient’ virtual ID and Japan’s power challenges in the face of datacentre construction.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/indi

India’s digital authoritarianism - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at another site ban in India, China’s ‘convenient’ virtual ID and ...

Scattered Spider has successfully breached the computer networks of multiple airlines in the United States and Canada this month according to the FBI and experts.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/business/cyberattacks-airlines-fbi-criminal-group

Rampant cybercriminal group targets US airlines
A notorious cybercriminal group has shifted its attention to the aviation industry, successfully breaching the computer networks of multiple airlines in the United States and Canada this month, according to the FBI and private experts responding to the hacks.

Uncertainty on Display: The Effects of Communicating Confidence Cues in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions
Yue Luo, Xinyan Yu, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Marius Hoggenmueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18836

Uncertainty on Display: The Effects of Communicating Confidence Cues in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions
Uncertainty is an inherent aspect of autonomous vehicle (AV) decision-making, yet it is rarely communicated to pedestrians, which hinders transparency. This study investigates how AV uncertainty can be conveyed through two approaches: explicit communication (confidence percentage displays) and implicit communication (vehicle motion cues), across different confidence levels (high and low). Through a within-subject VR experiment (N=26), we evaluated these approaches in a crossing scenario, assess…

Freunde der elektronischen Musik kennen Wendy Carlos. Sie veröffentlichte 1968 die Platte "Switched on Bach", auf der sie Bach-Stücke mit einem Moog-Synthesizer interpretiert. Die es damals überhaupt erst 3-4 Jahre gab. Das Computer-Magazin Compute! hat im Heft 01/1986 ein längliches Interview mit Frau Carlos. Nachzulesen beim @…

Compute! Magazine Issue 068 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Compute! Issue 68 - January 1986. Making Music with MIDI - The Computerized Musician - Solitaire - SpeedCalc for Commodore 64 and 128 - Casio CZ-101 Music...

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and his lieutenants have discussed "de-investing" in Llama in favor of AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/glasgow-city-council-ser…

Glasgow City Council services still crippled a week after cyberattack
Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.

It's Friday and don't stop work for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Cyber incident disrupts Hawaiian Airlines, but flights are unaffected
--Food distributor UNFI restores operations,
--Danish gov't wants people to own copyrights to their bodies, faces and voices,
--N. Korea is automating crypto theft with AI tools,
--Pro-Iranian hacktivists leaked Saudi Ga…

Cyber incident disrupts Hawaiian Airlines, but flights are unaffected
Food distributor UNFI restores operations, Danish gov't wants people to own copyrights to their bodies, faces and voices, N. Korea is automating crypto theft with AI tools, Pro-Iranian hacktivists leaked Saudi Games records, Cambodia has been negligent in cybercrime compound crackdowns, much more