- US DOJ unseals a 2019 indictment charging two Russians with stealing ~647K BTC in a Mt. Gox hack; one of them is also charged with conspiring to operate BTC-e (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
- Source: a recent Meta employee survey found 26% of respondents expressed confidence in leadership and 43% said they felt valued, vs. 31% and 58% in October 2022 (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
- Robinhood says it will end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance (MK Manoylov/The Block)
- Researchers find loopholes in Nvidia's NeMo Framework, which helps developers work with LLMs, letting them bypass safety restraints to reveal private data (Financial Times)
- Antenna: Netflix got more new US subscriptions May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any four-day period since at least 2019 (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
- Disney's Hotstar plans to offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices, following JioCinema's recent success with a similar strategy (Reuters)
- The Dutch government asks TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the platform, with plans to analyze how the algorithm functions (Bloomberg)
- The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
- Spotify is testing a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20 (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- UK’s plans for global AI safety summit draw criticism
- Nvidia’s new monster CPU+GPU chip may power the next gen of AI chatbots
- Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware
- FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes
- Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
- Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small
- Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products
- They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI
- Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why
- Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator