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Digital Asset, which is building Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raises ~$300 million seed round led by crypto a16z at a valuation of ~$2 billion (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: How to build a business that endures through all times | Eric Ries, author of Lean…

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The FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecommunications carriers, including VoIP providers, to verify users’ identities before activating the service, sparking privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 9, 2026

Ken Macon / Reclaim the Net: The FCC has passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecommunications carriers, including VoIP providers, to…

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U.S. states levied $3.45 billion in privacy-related fines on businesses in 2025, a higher total than the last five years combined, due to new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Paul Tudor Jones – Lessons from 50 years of markets The leading destination for…

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TikTok users in the US have been presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app’s ownership transition and now enable precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraising, AI Ad Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin The Big Technology…

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Apple’s DMA compliance is not “malicious,” but an effort to balance Apple’s focus on privacy with the EU mandate, as seen in changes to iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync in iOS 26.2 (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 24, 2025

Featured Podcasts Acquired: Coca-Cola Discover the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies and how you can apply them as…

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Q&A with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on his return to Amazon after burnout, his goal of ‘zero crime,’ privacy and the ‘surveillance panopticon,’ and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 2025

Featured Podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime A show from The Verge about…

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OpenAI is asking a federal judge to overturn an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the New York Times copyright suit, citing privacy concerns (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 12, 2025

Blake Brittain / Reuters: OpenAI asks a federal judge to overturn an order that required it to turn over 20…

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Sixty-five countries sign UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 27, 2025

Featured Podcasts Acquired: Trader Joe’s Discover the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies and how you can apply them…

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First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including rapid injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 21, 2025

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s blog: First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and…

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An interview with Evan Prodromou, the “inventor of the Fediverse,” about the origins of ActivityPub, Mastodon’s focus on privacy, expanding beyond microblogging, and more (Matthias Pfefferle/Open Channels FM)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 8, 2025

How to organize town halls that really connect — Town halls are more than routine updates, they are an opportunity…

The geopolitics of the Trump-Xi meeting – The Diplomat

India’s nuclear breakthrough – The Diplomat

Beware of China distorting Trump’s remarks during summit with Xi Jinping – Radio Free Asia

4 Kazakh regions likely to experience water shortages in 2026 – The Diplomat

Human rights off agenda at Trump-Xi summit in Beijing – The Diplomat

Fired GM employees talk about disturbing emails, layoffs and the role of AI

Trump FDA Commissioner Marty Makary absent

United Airlines flight attendants sign new contract with 31% raise

Businesses start getting duty refunds after Supreme Court ruling

Supreme Court Clears Way for Alabama Republicans to Pursue New Election Map

Kash Patel Shamed for Alleged Drinking During Senate Hearing

He doesn’t care about the American people

Investigation expanded into Trump demanding editorial control over CNN

Trump’s Federal Gas Tax Exemption Is a Scam

Trump falls asleep multiple times during women’s health event in the Oval Office

Paymentology, which provides real-time card processing and payments technology to banks and fintechs, has raised $175 million co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 in the last two months; xAI is pursuing a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site (Molly Taft/Wired)

Sources: Anthropic in preliminary talks to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation of more than $900 billion; the cycle should close at the end of this month (Bloomberg)

Musk vs. Altman: Altman said that in 2017, Musk demanded complete control of a for-profit branch of OpenAI, thinking he would pass it on to his children (Bloomberg)

The U.S. DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and remediate vulnerabilities across the U.S. government, even as it considers moving away from Anthropic (Reuters)

Browsing: privacy

Digital Asset, which is building Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raises ~$300 million seed round led by crypto a16z at a valuation of ~$2 billion (Bloomberg)

The FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecommunications carriers, including VoIP providers, to verify users’ identities before activating the service, sparking privacy fears (Ken Macon/Reclaim The Net)

U.S. states levied $3.45 billion in privacy-related fines on businesses in 2025, a higher total than the last five years combined, due to new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

TikTok users in the US have been presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app’s ownership transition and now enable precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Apple’s DMA compliance is not “malicious,” but an effort to balance Apple’s focus on privacy with the EU mandate, as seen in changes to iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync in iOS 26.2 (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Q&A with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on his return to Amazon after burnout, his goal of ‘zero crime,’ privacy and the ‘surveillance panopticon,’ and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

OpenAI is asking a federal judge to overturn an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in the New York Times copyright suit, citing privacy concerns (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Sixty-five countries sign UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including rapid injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

An interview with Evan Prodromou, the “inventor of the Fediverse,” about the origins of ActivityPub, Mastodon’s focus on privacy, expanding beyond microblogging, and more (Matthias Pfefferle/Open Channels FM)