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FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (The Atlantic)
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The Trump Administration Just Can’t Quit Signal
New records reveal that officials kept using the app, even after the president suggested they stop.

OpenAI and Anthropic can only survive against chinese OpenSource/OpenWeights models if they improve more rapidly and try to bring down their costs. And that is what OpenAI is doing. The race is on...

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ
This is a superb dive into the XZ hack, the history of open source, the challenges of relying on volunteers, encryption, and a bunch more. An hour absolutely worth your time.

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control | Crimes Against Humanity News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/31/satellite-imagery-shows-erasure-of-southern-gaza-as-israel-expands-control?traffic_source=rss

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

Neue Gerüchterunde über chinesische Lithografie-Systeme
Das chinesische Start-up Aishengna soll bestimmte Maschinen für die Chipfertigung herstellen können. Berichte reichen, um ASMLs Aktie ins Wanken zu bringen.
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Neue Gerüchterunde über chinesische Lithografie-Systeme
Das chinesische Start-up Aishengna soll bestimmte Maschinen für die Chipfertigung herstellen können. Berichte reichen, um ASMLs Aktie ins Wanken zu bringen.

Emergency workers are continuing their search for survivors in southern Japan
after yesterday’s powerful earthquakeleft widespread devastation,
with buildings collapsed, roads severely damaged and emergency teams digging through rubble.
At least 13 people have been killed
and many reported missing after the earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu with a magnitude of 7.1, according to the Japan meteorological agency.
The US Geolo…

‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing
Military mobilises thousands of personnel after quake on southern Kyushu island that registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese shindo intensity scale

"This phenomenon brings us to the one potentially useful thing about A.I. slop. Social media is overrun with it, from shrimp Jesus to protean monsters to Iranian propaganda in the style of Legos, and people hate it. Identifying an image, song, book — or TikTok series — as made by A.I. is one of the surest ways to turn social media users against it. "
Opinion | The Joy of Hate-Watching A.I. Slop - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/fruit-love-island-ai-slop.html

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2026/threatlocker-lands-190m-in-n…

ThreatLocker Lands $190M In New Funding: 5 Key Things To Know
ThreatLocker announced Wednesday it has raised $190 million in a new round of funding to further extend its zero trust security platform and expand internationally.