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🔒 Oracle will control TikTok's US algorithm
🍪 EU wants to free the internet of cookie pop-ups
🛡️ Google DeepMind updates its rules to stop harmful AI
📱 Foldable iPhone might look like two iPhone Airs stuck together
⚖️ FTC alleges Amazon tricked millions of customers into Prime subscriptions
💰 Coinbase aims to become a financial super app
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 5 handpicked research papers and tools
🔒 Oracle will control TikTok's US algorithm LINK
Oracle will retrain the recommendation software from scratch inside the United States using a leased version from ByteDance and store all American user data in its own secure cloud systems.
The national security deal hands Oracle full control over reviewing TikTok’s source code and managing all future application development to monitor for any improper manipulation or government surveillance.
ByteDance will no longer be allowed to access its U.S. algorithm or software operations, while its ownership of the new TikTok venture is being reduced to below 20 percent.
🍪 EU wants to free the internet of cookie pop-ups LINK
The European Commission wants to simplify its "outdated" rules on cookies to ease the regulatory burden on businesses and reduce the widespread consent fatigue that frustrates many internet users.
This initiative aims to cut costs by reducing cases where user consent is needed and may introduce a central cookie management mechanism to give people more control over their privacy.
As part of a wider ‘Digital Omnibus’ package, authorities have opened a request for feedback to help modernize the current cookie regulations established by the original ePrivacy Directive.
🛡️ Google DeepMind updates its rules to stop harmful AI LINK
Google's updated Frontier Safety Framework now includes a risk class for “harmful manipulation,” addressing persuasive models that could be misused to systematically change people’s beliefs during high-stakes events.
The safety rules also formally address “misalignment risks,” with protocols for a future where an AI could actively resist human attempts to shut it down or alter its core operations.
The company plans to build an automated system to monitor for illicit reasoning in an agent's chain-of-thought, a method to spot when it might hide its dangerous intentions.
📱 Foldable iPhone might look like two iPhone Airs stuck together LINK
Apple's foldable iPhone will reportedly have a super thin design, featuring a form that looks like two of the company's titanium iPhone Airs that have been placed directly side-by-side.To save internal space, the phone will replace Face ID with Touch ID integrated into its side button, and will have a 7.8-inch inner display with a 5.5-inch outer screen.Currently scheduled for a 2026 release and manufactured by Foxconn in China, the new device is expected to carry a price tag that begins at $2,000, potentially reaching $2,500.
⚖️ FTC alleges Amazon tricked millions of customers into Prime subscriptions LINK
The FTC alleges Amazon tricked millions of customers into Prime subscriptions and created a cancellation process so difficult that the company’s own employees internally nicknamed the confusing system the “Iliad.”
The agency is trying to hold two senior executives, Neil Lindsay and Jamil Ghani, personally liable for allegedly ignoring internal warnings and reversing changes that would reduce nonconsensual enrollment.
Amazon denies the claims, arguing people join its Prime program because it is useful and valuable, pointing to high renewal rates and customer satisfaction as proof of its genuine appeal.
💰 Coinbase aims to become a financial super app LINK
Coinbase's CEO plans to build a financial “super app” that acts as a bank replacement, handling customer spending, savings, payments, and all investing on one single unified platform.
The company will deliver these services on “crypto rails,” a system Armstrong argues provides faster and cheaper settlement than the 2–3% swipe fees charged by traditional card networks.
Armstrong sees regulatory clarity from Congress as the essential first step, but noted that intense lobbying by big banks against crypto rewards programs on stablecoins remains a significant hurdle.
Other news you might like
- Trump says Michael Dell and Larry Ellison will be involved in US-TikTok dealLINK
- Silicon Valley wants to escape the ‘Nvidia tax’LINK
- GSA approves Meta's Llama for use across U.S. government agenciesLINK
- Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle BrandLINK
- Notorious software bug was killing people 40 years ago — at least three people died after radiation doses that were 100x too strong from the buggy Therac-25 radiation therapy machineLINK
- Intel’s foundry business keeps losing billions with no turnaround in sightLINK
- Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother BeijingLINK
- Google faces court battle over breakup of ad tech businessLINK
Latest research and tools
SGI Demos in WASM: a project that runs classic Silicon Graphics visual demos from their original source code directly in a modern web browser.LINK
Lightweight, highly accurate line and paragraph detection: this paper introduces a computationally efficient method for accurately identifying lines and paragraphs within a document.LINK
We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof: the paper argues that large language models must be taught complex cultural etiquette, like the Persian concept of Taarof, to interact more effectively across different societies.LINK
Tips to stay safe from NPM supply chain attacks: a consolidated list of information and useful techniques to help developers secure their projects against various security risks and supply-chain attacks in the NPM ecosystem.LINK
Jet-Nemotron: this paper introduces an efficient language model that uses an automated search process to find a better network design.LINK
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