Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.

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PSA: A change to Google's privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here's how to opt out.

New, by me: Canada's top spy agency said it conducted "active cyber operations" during 2025 against drug traffickers, a violent extremist group, and a ransomware gang, using hacks to disrupt or degrade their ability to function or cause harm. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260706...

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.

WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live.

Station F, the Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel in 2017, is gearing up for a new edition of its selective acceleration F/ai program that will cement its role as a stepping stone for AI startups.

Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150M from Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation.

While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.

Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.

Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump made $636 million.

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day.

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. 

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

The $149 Dune keyboard can be a meeting controller at least and a script-executing keypad at best.

The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.

If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline passes, the opportunity is gone.

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.

True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the US military.

Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.

IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low-and-behold.

AI has made it a lot harder for tech companies like Amazon and Google to deliver on their net-zero pledges.

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.

Hopper will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive “dark patterns” to hide fees and mislead travelers about the cost and benefits of services.

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

A former software manager claims Wisk rushed software testing ahead of a crucial 2025 flight test.

New, by me: U.S. Homeland Security investigating a breach of its intelligence sharing platform, HSIN, by hackers a few weeks ago, per media reports. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee says the information spill could risk national security. (Ad-blocker bypass link: archive.is/zYJAU)

Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.

TV Time, the popular TV tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent company Whip Media pivots toward enterprise AI products.

The company announced a new slate of executive hires meant to help turn things around, as Gravity SUV sales are not taking off as expected.

A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

The company delivered more than 480,000 EVs globally, seemingly thanks to geographic expansion and cheaper versions of the Model 3, Model Y, and Cybertruck.

The company now expects to ship a few thousand more vehicles by the end of 2026 than it previously expected, after launching its R2 SUV last month.

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.

Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets, and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.

"Investors, public and private, have much more appetite for AI than for aging SaaS businesses." And that's why you're seeing plenty of talk about AI amid Bending Spoons' $18B IPO today, as their collection of brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote, hit the public markets.

The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo.