Florida filed a lawsuit against TikTok in June 2026, alleging the company is violating the state’s child safety law by allowing underage users to remain on its platform. The suit, first reported by…
Days after its IPO, SpaceX confirmed plans to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60B, filing with the SEC that the deal should close in Q3 2026. Earlier, it had set either the $60B price or a $10B breakup fee, citing Musk’s frustration that xAI coding lags Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
Google will close the last MV2 ad-blocker workarounds in Chrome 150 and 151, arriving in late June 2026 and July 2026, respectively. That ends functionality tied to Manifest V2 extensions like uBlock Origin after Google stopped official MV2 support in 2024, citing security risks and tech debt.
Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users after a June 12, 2026 U.S. directive ordered foreign access blocks following research showing prompts that could enable cyberattacks. Launched June 9, Anthropic said it “disagree[s]” that a “narrow potential jailbreak” requires recalling a model used by “hundreds of millions.”
Google turned a nearly two-decade hidden Google Earth desktop flight simulator into a browser feature as of Friday, June 15, 2026—no app download needed. Open Google Earth, click “Explore Earth,” then Flight Simulator (last item in Tools), set basemap to Satellite, and control via keyboard/mouse; crashes pause for a reset to safe altitude.
In a June 2026 interview on the podcast Mostly Human, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the redesigned Siri is intentionally built to disengage from “engagement” tactics like sycophancy and will not act as a romantic partner, focusing instead on helping users get things done and learn. The discussion with Greg Joswiak also covered privacy and Apple’s new child safety protections, after MacRumors spotted the remarks and The Verge’s early tests showed Siri tends to stop rather than prolong conversations.
From 2026, The Weather Channel app upgrades allergy forecasting with “weather aggravator insights,” daily peak pollen forecasts, and risk graphics vs. the previous day. Pollen tracking joins five-day ZIP-based forecasts with a decade of historical data; Premium ($4.99/mo, $29.99/yr) adds hourly pollen radar plus species like cedar/oak later this summer and a symptom tracker.
YouTube is reintroducing private messaging in 2026, expanding an in-app video sharing and direct messaging feature to users in the US and other global regions who are 18 or older.
The platform first…
Deezer has launched a free tool that scans playlists on other streaming platforms for AI-generated music, making its detection technology available to users regardless of which service they subscribe…
Bluesky’s head of product Alex Benzer says communities arrive in 2026: smaller topic spaces built on the AT Protocol (“Atmosphere”) that also exist on the open web. Users can create/join, post, and get updates, with handle-doubled URLs, public/invite-only/private modes, and dedicated feeds.
Thread 1.4 landed in June 2026 on Apple TVs (tvOS 27 dev beta) and the Google TV Streamer, letting their Border Routers share credentials so new devices can join existing Thread networks. Google’s QR join isn’t confirmed, and Apple’s betas show only DNS discovery; Samsung enabled it on SmartThings hubs in Oct 2025.
Nearly 985,000 passport images and photo IDs belonging to cannabis club members were left unprotected on the public internet, accessible to anyone who knew a simple URL pattern, security researcher…
