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On June 12, the US Commerce Department issued an export control order directing Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — for all foreign nationals, including non-citizens working inside the United States and the company’s own employees. Anthropic disabled both models for every customer worldwide […]

The Wall Street Journal published an investigation on June 21 revealing that Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, paid online creators to produce deceptive videos simulating lucrative bets on “near-perfect copies” of its website. The clips featured trades and winnings that were not real, were amplified by a paid “social-media army,” and reached more than […]

Claude Opus 4.7, operating entirely without human assistance, completed sensor connection, robot control, and object detection tasks roughly 20 times faster than the fastest human teams from a year ago, according to a new phase of Anthropic’s Project Fetch published June 18. The experiment marks a significant milestone in physical agentic AI: an LLM autonomously […]

Lenovo’s 14th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon, unveiled at CES 2026 and now shipping, proves that repairability and premium design are not mutually exclusive. The laptop earned a 9/10 rating from iFixit and won Best Laptop of CES for a “Space Frame” modular architecture that lets users replace the battery, keyboard, ports, and other components with standard […]

Aura’s new Ink frame uses color e-ink technology to produce a digital photo display that genuinely looks like a printed photograph, because people have mistaken it for one. The company’s co-founder and CTO Eric Jensen told TechCrunch that users have hung the frame on their walls and had visitors ask how they “printed that picture […]

The cryptographic keys that secure the boot sequence on millions of Windows and Linux computers will begin expiring on June 24, creating a looming deadline for system administrators and individual users who rely on UEFI Secure Boot to prevent rootkits and boot-level malware. The expiring keys are part of the platform binary database maintained by […]

Google’s global measurement of IPv6 adoption crossed 50% for the first time on April 23, 2026, marking a symbolic threshold for a protocol that was standardized in 1998 and has taken nearly three decades to reach parity with its predecessor. The milestone, published on the APNIC Blog, represents Google’s own measurement of IPv6 capability across […]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, downloaded over 6 billion times, is building a startup that could do for physical devices what his video player did for multimedia. His company, Kyber, is developing a low-latency SDK for controlling remote machines in real time, from drones and robots to telecom infrastructure. Kyber has […]

Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools in elementary schools from the start of the next academic year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on June 19, as concern grows across Europe that screen-based learning has failed to deliver on its educational promises. Under the new rules, pupils from first […]

India’s week-long block of Telegram over exam fraud concerns triggered the country’s biggest single-day VPN download surge since at least 2025, as tens of millions of users scrambled for alternative messaging apps and circumvention tools. The Delhi High Court upheld the temporary restriction on June 18, accepting the government’s argument that blocking the platform was […]