Tech Meme

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: President Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA’s ~$3B budget, claiming the 17% cut would refocus CISA “on its core mission”  —  A budget summary doesn’t give specific details on which programs it would cut, instead providing a broad outline.  —  Learn more. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user’s sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans  —  Meta’s chatbot remembers everything, even what you might not want it to.  —  Mark Zuckerberg has a new way to invade your privacy: a creepier version of ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: An interview with Riot Games Head of Anti-Cheat Phillip Koskinas on the strategies the company uses to combat cheaters, including discrediting cheat developers  —  For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to cheat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Micah Lee / micahflee: A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more  —  TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.  —  💡 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Abrams / The Block: Several pro-crypto Senate Democrats, key to passing a landmark stablecoin bill, withdraw support for the bill “as it currently stands”, citing “numerous issues”  —  – The future of the U.S. Senate’s stablecoin bill has been thrown into jeopardy after nine pro-crypto Democrats … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, raised $900M at a $9B valuation, up from $2.5B in January 2025, led by Thrive; a16z and Accel also invested  —  Anysphere closes $900mn funding round from investors including Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: The internet’s biggest deepfake porn site, Mr. Deepfakes, says it is shutting down because a “critical service provider has terminated service permanently”  —  Mr. Deepfakes, the go-to site for nonconsensual deepfake porn, says it’s shutting down and not coming back because it lost a service provider and data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces Tether AI, an open-source AI runtime that supports USDT and Bitcoin payments with no API keys or a central point of failure  —  Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Tether AI tech will enable an unstoppable peer-to-peer network of billions of AI agents  —  What to know: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Klee / Rolling Stone: Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones’ religious delusions of grandeur; experts warn that human-like chats can worsen tendencies toward psychological issues  —  Self-styled prophets are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: Researchers warn that open-source Go serialization tool easyjson, owned by Russia’s VK Group and used by the US DOD and others, poses a national security risk  —  The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies.  But its ties to Russia’s VK … Lees verder op Tech Meme