Tech Crunch Drive Capital’s second act –  how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming Microsoft is closing its local operations in Pakistan TechCrunch Mobility: The state of EV sales and Rivian secures the next $1B from VW EU says it will continue rolling out AI legislation on schedule

Tecnica (BB) Secret Service in US Expands a Global Push Against Crypto Scams Nvidia Partner Hon Hai Meets Sales Estimates on Strong AI Demand US Plans AI Chip Curbs on Malaysia, Thailand Over China Concerns Harvard Warns Foreign Students Over US Airport, Social Media Google to Propose Price-Comparison Box in Search to Appease EU Hip-Hop Musical Subverts Silicon Valley Founder Stereotypes Louis Vuitton Korea Suffers Cyberattack as Customer Data Leaked

Scenza & Tecnica (TE) RFK junior wants to ban an ingredient in vaccines. Is he right? AI is helping to design proteins from scratch A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome How sea slugs give themselves superpowers Is being bilingual good for your brain? Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem Scientists have created healthy, fertile mice with two fathers

IEEE Spectrum Video Friday: Cyborg Beetles May Speed Disaster Response One Day AI Cameras Change Driver Behavior at Intersections Ways to Bridge the U.S. Computer Science Education Gap This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once Be Polarizing as a Job Seeker Vera Rubin: This Is How Far Engineers Go to Explore the Universe LLM Benchmarking Shows Capabilities Doubling Every 7 Months

Tecnica (MIT) The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics Inside India’s scramble for AI independence The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality The Download: how AI could improve construction site safety, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao How generative AI could help make construction sites safer

Tecnica (Arstech) Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Technica (FT) Apple races to box office glory with Brad Pitt’s F1 blockbuster ChatGPT — the last of the great romantics Valve conquered PC gaming. What comes next? Hitachi Energy says AI power spikes threaten to destabilise global supply Signs of a pick-up in venture capital exits are finally emerging Bad data leads to bad policy Dinosaurs to doctors’ records: the UK weighs up its data assets

The Verge Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will be even sadder and bloodier Samsung is about to find out if Ultra is enough Deltarune is halfway done, but it feels like a full game Mercedes-Benz electric G-Wagen review: king of the off-road Here are the best Apple Watch deals available right now The best earbuds we’ve tested for 2025 Laid-off workers should use AI to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec The Ploopy Knob is an open-source control dial for your PC The best Bluetooth trackers for Apple and Android phones The American system of democracy has crashed

Arstech (Full article) The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels What’s wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers. Android 16 review: Post-hype An exceedingly rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines 13-inch Microsoft Surface Laptop review: A slightly worse version of a year-old PC The axion may help clean up the messy business of dark matter Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression How a grad student got LHC data to play nice with quantum interference Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book Framework Laptop 12 review: I’m excited to see what the 2nd generation looks like