Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise
Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise

Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch re…

Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data
Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees your raw data, tech.eu reported. The Spanish company …

UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges
UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges

Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity respo…

Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix
Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as …

The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him
The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him

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 Colo…

Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of esc…

Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing
Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing

The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions in lost sales. A cluster of European regulations is taking aim at how games are sold to minors. Loot boxes are the main t…

While you’re watching the World Cup, the feds may be watching you
While you’re watching the World Cup, the feds may be watching you

It’s a big year for America. It’s the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spectators at these events – and the millions of people who live in the cities hosting them – may not realize that they, too, are being watched. From Kansas City to New […]

Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites
Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites

For much of this year, Spanish internet users have lost access to huge parts of the web on match days. Not pirate streams, but human rights groups, climate charities and business tools. A new report puts hard numbers on the damage, and they are stagger…

GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet
GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet

The world’s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting new rules meant to stop fake sites impersonating famous brands. It warns the cure could expose millions of legitimate sit…