~techmeme | Bookmarks (1047)

Axios: Dario Amodei says AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment in the US to 10%-20% in the next one to five years  —  Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:

Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: Inside Solana Accelerate conference in NYC, which was full of buzz about stablecoins and lacked the over-the-top glitz and pomp of earlier crypto conferences  —  - Solana's Accelerate conference in New York City was full of buzz about stablecoins.  — It lacked the flashy over-the-top goofiness …

Financial Times: The Czech Republic says that the state-sponsored Chinese hacking group APT31 has targeted its foreign ministry's unclassified communications network since 2022  —  ‘Malicious’ assault blamed on group known as APT31 that has been linked with Chinese state security ministry

Anupriya Datta / Euractiv: EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen says that far more online content is being removed in the EU under the T&Cs of US platforms than as a result of the DSA  —  “Often in the US, platforms have more strict rules with content,” Virkkunen said.  —  Based on facts, either observed …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: GreyNoise researchers detail a novel botnet infecting 9K+ routers from Asus and others with a persistent SSH backdoor, enabling access after reboots and updates  —  Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed “AyySSHush” that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys.

Financial Times: Sources: X covered some losses usually borne by banks when seven lenders, including Morgan Stanley, sold $1.2B of its debt at 98 cents on the dollar in April  —  Trump's election helped revive loans that once threatened to hit banks with big losses  —  Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free

Sahil Lavingia: Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA, says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published  —  In August 2014, President Obama and Congress created the United States Digital Service (USDS).  —  In January 2025, President Trump signed …

Wall Street Journal: Source: Delaware's AG is hiring an investment bank to independently value the equity that OpenAI's nonprofit parent will hold in the new for-profit entity  —  Startup must determine how to distribute equity in the new public-benefit corporation  —  OpenAI is undergoing a transformation meant …

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: In a SCOTUS brief, the Trump administration backs Cox's argument that ISPs shouldn't have to terminate customers based on unproven copyright infringement claims  —  The Trump administration is backing cable company Cox in a battle that could determine whether Internet service providers are forced to disconnect users accused of piracy.

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Hex, which provides a tool for finding correlations between data points, building predictive models, and running experiments, raised a $70M Series C led by Avra  —  Hex cofounders Glen Takahashi, Barry McCardel, and Caitlin Colgrove.  —  Hex  —  On Memorial Day, the Oklahoma City Thunder's …

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google unveils new Photos features, including a redesigned editor with AI features rolling out globally to Android next month and to iOS “later this year”  —  The UI has been redesigned to focus on Google's AI Magic Editor features.

New York Times: Sources detail factors that weakened Elon Musk's alliance with President Trump, including his frustrations with Trump's tariffs and his disillusionment with DC  —  The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft opens Windows Update to any third-party app that needs to be updated, letting developers sign up for a private preview of a new orchestration platform  —  A new orchestration platform will let developers update any app through Windows Update.

Zachary Basu / Axios: Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending  —  Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …

Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press: The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority  —  A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

Bloomberg: Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help from startups like Coretronic, as giants like TSMC and Foxconn hold back due to a smaller local market  —  Military's stockpile of about 1,000 drones seen as inadequate in the case of conflict with China

Wall Street Journal: California's population is growing again, rising 0.6% in 2024, with the H-1B visa program being one of the drivers, helping offset the residents who are leaving  —  A job market without enough ‘homegrown’ engineers drives an influx of workers to the U.S.—and helps offset the residents who are leaving

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Researchers detail an exploit in GitHub's official MCP server that lets hackers trick an LLM agent into leaking private information about the MCP user  —  GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (via) GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities …

Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator: The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times  —  I thought someone was gaming X's crowdsourced moderation; instead, they appear to be helping clean up the platform's mess for free.

Owen Walker / Financial Times: Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common  —  City-state residents who spend a lot of time online and are naturally compliant with authority are especially vulnerable

Bloomberg: Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends  —  Meta's CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it's not clear how much he has to show for it.

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance  —  Friends want to protect your feelings.  AI isn't pulling any punches.  —  Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught presenting AI hallucinations shows that, of 116 cases dating back to June 2023, 20 occurred this month  —  AI Hallucination Cases (via) Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision …

Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU says Shein's practices breach rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn that it could face fines if it doesn't comply  —  European Union regulators said China-founded e-commerce platform Shein's sales tactics fall foul of EU law and that the company …