Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. Here are our latest picks. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 5) appeared first on SingularityHub.
¡Cuidado! Time to double-check before entering your Microsoft creds Cybersecurity experts are reporting a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.…
It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come The sixth generation of the Fairphone repairable mobile was launched at the end of June. Now spunger-flingers iFixit have got their hands on it, and liked the result.…
Smartphone shipments in China plunged 21.8 per cent year on year in May to 23.7 million units, the biggest decline this year, according to the latest data from a government-run research institute. Foreign brands, including Apple’s iPhone, saw shipments drop by 9.7 per cent in May from a year earlier, outperforming local brands. Domestic manufacturers, including Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi, saw their shipments fall a combined 24.2 per cent, according to data released on Friday by the China...
Rachyl Jones / Semafor: A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models — Meta's new hires offer a glimpse into its nascent superintelligence unit, aimed at making the social media company's AI capabilities more competitive with industry leaders.
Cato Networks, Zhipu AI, Jumbotail, and more raised funds this week.
TSMC said its expansion is based on customer demand, business opportunities, and government support.
Foxconn's revenue reached NT$1.8 trillion (US$62 billion) for the quarter ending in June.
Here are the companies in India that are attracting tons of investors and have the resources to spend on software, talent, and expansion.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Over the past year, long-time Bitcoin whales have been selling off their holdings, leading to a reshaping of the market as institutions increase their buying — A silent transfer of control is reshaping the $2.1 trillion Bitcoin market. — A steady stream of sales by long-time whales …
Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze A UK minister has told Parliament that joining Europe's answer to Starlink — Elon Musk's satellite-based mobile internet service — would be a "stretch" given the nation's current financial challenges.…
In large-scale cluster settings, AsyncFlow outperformed conventional frameworks with throughput gains of up to 2.03 times.
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The study challenges the assumption that current agentic benchmarks reliably measure AI capabilities.
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Two dormant Bitcoin wallets, each holding 10,000 “Satoshi era” BTC since 2011, transferred the coins to new wallets using a modern, lower-fee address format — All of these moved coins are among the rarest class of BTC: mined or transacted during the “Satoshi era,” …
Microsoft announced cuts that will impact up to 9,100 employees, with gaming studios hit hard.
Trilinear attention enables more complex data relationships, improving performance on tasks that require deeper reasoning.
The plant is part of Samsung’s US$44 billion investment in Texas.
It is supported by a HK$3 billion (US$418.6 million) subsidy program to boost AI development.
The talks are expected to take place on July 7, or July 8, with Chinese President Xi Jinping or his representatives.
Dobot Atom, launched in March, is the company’s first humanoid robot.
CEO Darpan Sanghvi revealed issues such as delayed salaries, funding difficulties, and operational disruptions.
Mapping Japan's cleantech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Cruise, GM's autonomous vehicle unit, was discontinued in December 2023 after a vehicle struck a pedestrian in San Francisco.
Users can click through to platforms like Expedia or Booking.com, or access individual hotel or airline pages.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: The term “superintelligence” is becoming increasingly popular among AI leaders, even as many in the industry question whether it is ill-defined and overhyped — A new AI buzzword is picking up speed in Silicon Valley. — But first.... AGI inflation
RT Watson / The Block: Distinct Possibility, a gaming studio launched by EverQuest co-creator to build a web3 shooter on Etherlink, a Layer 2 network built on Tezos, raised $30.5M — - Bitkfraft Ventures and Brevan Howard Digital co-led a $30.5 million funding round in Distinct Possibility Studios, the new gaming firm from EverQuest co-creator John Smedley.
Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tailor, which offers a headless ERP system for retail businesses that separates the frontend and backend, raised a $22M Series A from ANRI, NEA, YC, and others — Tailor, a San Francisco- and Tokyo-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round.
Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 — Blackstone is acquiring Vista's stake in Cvent for $1.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
Ben Geman / Axios: Emerald AI, whose software lets AI data centers flexibly adjust power consumption, raised a $24.5M seed led by Radical Ventures, with NVentures participating — AI giant Nvidia and boldface names in tech and finance are backing a new startup that aims to transform data centers into flexible grid assets instead of liabilities.
Mapping Japan’s fintech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
A humanoid robot from the Chinese firm Shenzhen Dobot successfully cooked a steak – even sprinkling salt with its fingers – while being remotely controlled by an operator 1,800km away using a virtual reality (VR) headset. A video of the feat, published on Friday on the company’s official WeChat account, showcased its latest technology – which could eventually disrupt how humans perform housework, conduct surgeries, inspect nuclear plants and even explore outer space. The cooking was performed by...
Microsoft recently announced a 4% reduction in its global workforce, or around 9,000 jobs.
Both companies originated from CSIRO and use magnetic resonance technology to detect minerals, explosives, and narcotics.
Limited-risk tools like chatbots will face lighter transparency rules.
The proposed rule would require companies to obtain US approval before exporting AI chips to Malaysia and Thailand.
Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Qedma, which is developing an error mitigation software called QESEM for quantum computers, raised a $26M Series A led by Glilot Capital Partners — Despite their imposing presence, quantum computers are delicate beasts, and their errors are among the main bottlenecks …
Independent publishers filed a complaint with the European Commission, claiming the AI-generated summaries use their content.
Mapping India’s education sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Reuters: LumApps, which makes intranet software, agrees to merge with frontline staff communication app Beekeeper in a deal valuing the combined entity at about $1.1B — A merger between French business software provider LumApps and its Swiss peer Beekeeper will create a new unicorn worth about $1.1 billion, the two companies said.
Dan Primack / Axios: PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded — Artificial intelligence is eating venture capital. Or at least its dollars. … - That percentage jumps to 64% in the U.S.
Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor Windows 11 has finally overtaken the market share of its predecessor, with just three months remaining until Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10.…
Shira Perlmutter lost her job after her office published report on generative AI and fair use limits The former head of the US Copyright Office has pushed back against arguments from President Donald Trump's team that her dismissal was lawful.…
New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent Martian probe data suggest the fourth planet from the Sun once hosted a fluctuating desert environment with intermittent oases of water.…
KBKG: President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill, which allows immediate deduction of US software labor; foreign R&D still must be amortized over 15 years — Today, the House passed the Senate's version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), marking a significant overhaul to federal tax policy.
Venerable command line tool to depart Windows Users still clinging on to PowerShell 2.0 just received notice to quit as the command-line tool is officially leaving Windows.…
SK Telecom detailed a KRW700 billion overhaul of its security systems on the same day Korean authorities fined it KRW30 million for negligence in a large-scale data breach in April. The post Data breach costs SKT dearly appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Ericsson simplified the process for partners selling its enterprise wireless products with an updated programme providing a closer working relationship and greater earning potential. The post Ericsson updates enterprise wireless partner programme appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Joshua Nevett / BBC: UK minister instructs the Turing AI institute, which has lately focused on responsible AI and ethics, to prioritize national security and defense instead — Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) to tell its bosses to refocus on defence and security.
The PBOC's renewal marks the first under new supervision regulations for non-bank payment institutions.