2026-06-19
SpaceX falls more than 6% as the record IPO rally cools
For two days, SpaceX was one of the five most valuable companies on Earth. On Thursday, the market began to reconsider. Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satellite company fell more than 6%, last trading down 6.5% at $178.50, as the frenzy that followed the largest initial public offering in history started to cool. The drop was […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
Leaked licences show Bulgaria greenlit surveillance exports to governments accused of repression
Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries with documented records of suppressing dissent. The licences, published by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, cover exports by Circles BG to government buyers in Azerbaijan, Serbia, Malaysia, Mexico, th [...]
2026-06-19
Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are
Two former OpenAI employees have built a website called "In the Weights" that reveals which people AI models can recall purely from their training data. A strength score of up to 996 shows how deeply a person is embedded, with Mozart, Shakespeare, and Taylor Swift topping the list.<br /> The article Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are appeare [...]
2026-06-19
China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
The bottleneck in the AI buildout is turning out to be a metal most people have never heard of. China has tightened its scrutiny of exports of indium phosphide, a compound essential to the high-speed optical chips that move data inside AI data centres, in a move that threatens to slow the very infrastructure the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-19
Alibaba Cloud opens first data centres in France as the EU tightens rules on foreign cloud providers
Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday launched its first data centres in France, opening two availability zones in Paris as part of a broader push into a European market that is rapidly reassessing its dependency on foreign cloud providers. The facilities make France Alibaba Cloud’s third European hub, after Germany, where it has operated since 2016, and Britain. […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
2026-06-19
US court rules Ohio can restrict children’s use of social media
Ohio can require social media companies to get a parent’s permission before letting children under 16 onto their platforms, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday, reviving a law the tech industry had managed to freeze. The decision from the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court that had blocked the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
