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$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Ashley Belanger • June 12, 2026 It’s clear that communities now have an effective playbook to block data center construction. This week, researchers flagged the first quarter of 2026 as producing the “most blocked and delayed data center projects on record,” NBC News reported. Data Center Watch, a project from AI intelligence firm 10a Labs

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

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Dan Goodin • June 12, 2026 One of the world’s most active ransomware groups exploited a critical vulnerability in Oracle’s PeopleSoft software suite and used it to target about 100 customers and extort at least one of them to pay up in exchange for not leaking stolen data, researchers said. The group, tracked as ShinyHunters,

Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.

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Jon Brodkin • June 12, 2026 Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law. But that doesn’t mean the government’s spying powers will disappear. Surveillance under Section 702 of FISA “operates under yearlong certifications approved

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

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Eric Berger • June 12, 2026 Space Exploration Technologies, better known simply as SpaceX, became a publicly traded company on Friday nearly a quarter of a century after it was founded. The company began trading on the Nasdaq exchange in New York City at $135 a share, valuing SpaceX at nearly $1.8 trillion. By the

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

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Kyle Orland • June 13, 2026 Anthropic completely shut off access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models Friday night, just days after they were launched. The move comes after Anthropic’s receipt of a US Commerce Department directive Friday evening, subjecting the new models to export controls restricting their use anywhere outside the United

SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news

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Stevie Bonifield • June 12, 2026 SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He has more wealth, on paper at least, than the economies of nations like Ireland,

Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System

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Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News • June 13, 2026 Hidden underground around the world lie 110 quadrillion kilometers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks—webs of ultra-thin threads that, if connected in a single line, would stretch almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the sun, according to new research published in Science on

Govee’s rechargeable smart table lamp is down to $60

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Sheena Vasani • June 12, 2026 Whether you’re planning a backyard barbeque or a World Cup watch party, Govee’s Table Lamp Classic can help set the mood with color-changing lighting effects. Right now it’s down to just $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, which is its best price yet. Govee Table Lamp Classic Where to Buy:

I held the Trump phone

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Allison Johnson • June 12, 2026 Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week included an unexpected in-person encounter with the T1. You see a lot of

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

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Jess Weatherbed • June 12, 2026 Elon Musk is now officially the world’s first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale – a thousand times more than a billion – is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren’t among the 3,363

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news

Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System

Govee’s rechargeable smart table lamp is down to $60

I held the Trump phone

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money