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Filing: SpaceX has set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, including suits involving Grok "Spicy" fashion, which he described as a "increased risk" (Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 21, 2026

Wired: Filing: SpaceX has set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok’s “Spicy” mode, which it…

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Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings toward Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put those concerns aside (Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Post-smartphone, with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders, builders and executives over…

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Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country’s Cyberspace Administration (Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 10, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: “Sell Alpha, Not Feature”: The Guide to Enterprise Sales for $1-10M ARR | Jen Abel Interviews…

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An interview with Sam Altman and the president of Openai, Greg Brockman, during the initial lukewarm reception, the scale, learning to strengthen GPT-5, AGE, and more (Steven Levy / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 4, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: The Sora 2 breakthrough, the death of the creator’s economy ?, Apple glassworks roadmap The…

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is launching its first product, Tinker, an API for fine language models, in private beta version with the support for Qwen and Llama (Will Knight / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 1, 2025

Will Knight / Cable:: Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine language models,…

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While carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, crooks use "SMS blasters" This has usurped the identity of basic stations to send false messages to nearby phones (Matt Burgess / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 21, 2025

Matt Burgess / Cable:: While carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, crooks use “SMS blasters” which usurp the basic stations…

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Google deploys a gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the United States sailing in English, and other AI features, including AI mode in the address bar (Reece Rogers / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 18, 2025

Reece Rogers / Cable:: Google deploys a gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the United States sailing…

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The researchers say that the Videos of Charlie Kirk filming enter a policy gap on social media platforms, between authorized “graphic content” and “glorified violence” (Lauren Goode / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 13, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Do we care about the iPhone Air ?, Nepal’s Discord Revolution, Culture 996 of San…

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The number of American investors in spy software almost tripled in 2024 to 31 companies, against only 11 in 2023, at the top of the 26 investors from Israel (Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 11, 2025

Featured podcasts Super cat: The state of technological media (verification of facts not included) A podcast mainly on technology. TO-TO…

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Docs disclosed: Geedge Networks of the Supervisor for the surveillance of Chinese networks has sold major fire-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang / Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 10, 2025

Zeyi Yang / Cable:: Docs disclosed: Geedge Networks of the Supervisor for the Surveillance of Chinese networks has sold major…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to prepare espresso

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode improvements aimed at agent coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Browsing: Wired

Filing: SpaceX has set aside $530 million for potential litigation losses, including suits involving Grok "Spicy" fashion, which he described as a "increased risk" (Wired)

Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings toward Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put those concerns aside (Wired)

Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country’s Cyberspace Administration (Wired)

An interview with Sam Altman and the president of Openai, Greg Brockman, during the initial lukewarm reception, the scale, learning to strengthen GPT-5, AGE, and more (Steven Levy / Wired)

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is launching its first product, Tinker, an API for fine language models, in private beta version with the support for Qwen and Llama (Will Knight / Wired)

While carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, crooks use "SMS blasters" This has usurped the identity of basic stations to send false messages to nearby phones (Matt Burgess / Wired)

Google deploys a gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the United States sailing in English, and other AI features, including AI mode in the address bar (Reece Rogers / Wired)

The researchers say that the Videos of Charlie Kirk filming enter a policy gap on social media platforms, between authorized “graphic content” and “glorified violence” (Lauren Goode / Wired)

The number of American investors in spy software almost tripled in 2024 to 31 companies, against only 11 in 2023, at the top of the 26 investors from Israel (Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired)

Docs disclosed: Geedge Networks of the Supervisor for the surveillance of Chinese networks has sold major fire-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang / Wired)