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 'It's so much more than a standard desk fan' — I reviewed Meaco's upgraded Pro air circulator and was blown away by its power, silence and smarts
 Your next work PC could be about to get a major performance boost as Kioxia reveals its most powerful SSD, with PCIe 5.0 and read speeds of up to 14,000 MB/s
Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay (The Hacker News)
Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
 The future of Army rations? US investigates 'alternative protein technologies' to keep soldiers fed in the field — hopefully it will be more appealing than it sounds
ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically (Bloomberg)
 One month out from the World Cup, and scammers are already targeting fans — here's what to look out for
Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
 'This work is a glimpse of what is coming': Security team lays out how Anthropic Mythos helped build a working macOS exploit in five days
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
 Figure AI streamed humanoid robots sorting packages for 8 hours straight — and not everyone is convinced it was fully real
A look at GameStop's takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre way to force eBay's board and shareholders to consider GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's desire to run eBay (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
 'A decade or so away, we’ll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers': Google and SpaceX are reportedly in talks to build data centers in orbit