Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026

In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, w [...]

Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as Spiegel bets AI can do the work of a bigger workforce

Snap is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its full-time workforce, as CEO Evan Spiegel cites AI-driven efficiency gains and pursues more than $500 million in annualised cost savings. The layoffs f [...]

A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged

In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner’s conversations with Anthropic’s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both a [...]

HBO Max comes to India through exclusive JioHotstar deal at 50 cents a month

HBO Max has launched in India through an exclusive partnership with JioHotstar, the streaming platform born from Reliance Industries’ $8.5 billion merger with Walt Disney’s Indian operations. The [...]

Nintendo's Made a Weird Animal Crossing. Tomodachi Life Has Me Living Like an Odd God

I've been collecting people into my human zoo and conducting social experiments. Tell me this is OK. [...]

Astroport and Vermeer want to bring heavy construction equipment to the Moon

Astroport Space Technologies and Vermeer Corporation have announced a collaboration to adapt industrial surface mining equipment for autonomous lunar construction, a partnership that both companies fr [...]

OpenAI opens its cybersecurity model to thousands of defenders in race with Anthropic’s Mythos

In short: OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity with lowered refusal boundaries and binary reverse engineering capabilities, and scaling its Trusted Access [...]

Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think

In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The f [...]

Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws

In short:Security researcher Aonan Guan hijacked AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft via prompt injection attacks on their GitHub Actions integrations, stealing API keys and tokens in each [...]