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New Zealand rules out a VPN ban after a fierce privacy backlash

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The New Zealand government has ruled out restricting or banning VPNs as part of its planned under-16 social media ban. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford both moved to kill the idea after a rapid privacy backlash, TechRadar reports. “I can reject that outright. There’s no plan to ban VPNs at all,” Luxon […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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Judge upholds the verdict that Musk defrauded Twitter investors

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A federal judge has refused to overturn a jury’s finding that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during his $44bn takeover of the platform in 2022. US District Judge Charles Breyer denied Musk’s motion to set aside the verdict in most respects on Monday. A San Francisco jury ruled in March that two of Musk’s May 2022 tweets about the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds

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Startups built around AI hire fewer entry-level workers than their peers, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School and INSEAD, first reported by Business Insider. The firms are leaner, flatter, and heavily weighted towards senior technical talent. Researchers Rembrand Koning and Hyunjin Kim examined Y Combinator startups from 2020 to 2024 alongside a broader set of […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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US government body paid $1M to hackers who never locked a single file

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A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him

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Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island. […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

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Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. The project remains at an early stage, and Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip would be used for, how powerful it would be, or how it would fit into a server, according to the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform

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Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Alibaba entered into a non-prosecution agreement to end a probe of alleged violations of […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here
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