Notices by Techmeme (techmeme@techhub.social)

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/
http://www.techmeme.com/250611/p31#a250611p31

Ofcom launches nine Online Safety Act investigations, including into 4chan over alleged illegal content and into seven file-sharing services over possible CSAM (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/uk-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-4chan-other-platforms-2025-06-10/
http://www.techmeme.com/250610/p12#a250610p12

Waymo suspends operations in downtown Los Angeles after at least five vehicles were destroyed during riots; it continues to operate in other parts of the city (Caroline Petrow-Cohen/Los Angeles Times)

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-09/waymo-halts-service-in-downtown-los-angeles-amid-ice-protests
http://www.techmeme.com/250609/p44#a250609p44

Apple unveils an updated Spotlight in macOS Tahoe, letting users quickly take actions in apps from playing music to creating notes and files, similar to Raycast (David Pierce/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/apple/682950/apple-spotlight-mac-shortcuts
http://www.techmeme.com/250609/p37#a250609p37

The UK's FCA plans to lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors "to support UK growth and competitiveness" (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/06/uk-regulator-fca-to-lift-ban-on-crypto-etns-for-retail-investors
http://www.techmeme.com/250606/p7#a250606p7

Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-unveils-custom-ai-models-for-u-s-national-security-customers/
http://www.techmeme.com/250605/p25#a250605p25

Lime and Uber sign a new multiyear deal to let Uber feature Lime's shared bikes and scooters on its ridehail app; the deal was set to expire in 2025 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/679783/lime-renews-vows-with-uber-ahead-of-its-busy-summer-season
http://www.techmeme.com/250605/p19#a250605p19

Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/amazons-rd-lab-forms-new-agentic-ai-group.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250604/p40#a250604p40

Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts
http://www.techmeme.com/250603/p41#a250603p41

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing lawmakers to help clear a path for driverless vehicles and has been weighing in on revisions of a bill on autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/musk-lobbies-washington-to-clear-way-for-self-driving-cars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0ODYzNTYyNiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ5MjQwNDI2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWDJYTkdUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMEVEQzU3OEM0RkE0MzZDOTQzMEUwNTY1NThFOEIxRCJ9.RkuaXw_LPHwzi_9sVURfwLo-e0ngZWaO58aV29d_BWQ
http://www.techmeme.com/250530/p25#a250530p25

Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/black-forest-labs-kontext-ai-models-can-edit-pics-as-well-as-generate-them/
http://www.techmeme.com/250529/p46#a250529p46

X says it's pausing the encrypted DMs feature to "work on making some improvements"; users can view previous encrypted DMs but cannot send new ones (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is-pausing-encrypted-dms-215750222.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250528/p42#a250528p42

Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a "special government employee", defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending (Zachary Basu/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/elon-musk-doge-exit-spacex-tesla
http://www.techmeme.com/250528/p46#a250528p46

The EU has published its April 23 decision to fine Apple €500M for DMA non-compliance; Apple has until end of June to be in compliance or face periodic fines (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/27/apple-dma-30-days-deadline/
http://www.techmeme.com/250527/p40#a250527p40

X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage globally, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday (Wes Davis/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/674129/x-is-down-after-data-center-fire
http://www.techmeme.com/250524/p9#a250524p9

Sources: DOGE is using a customized Grok to analyze US government data, including at DHS where it has not been approved, raising security and privacy concerns (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musks-doge-expanding-his-grok-ai-us-government-raising-conflict-concerns-2025-05-23/
http://www.techmeme.com/250523/p5#a250523p5

Microsoft says it's reducing "politically focused emails" within the company, as workers are unable to send emails mentioning "Palestine", "Gaza", or "genocide" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p57#a250521p57

Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending May 4, including travel plans (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-2025-05-21/
http://www.techmeme.com/250521/p22#a250521p22

Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with a Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/xreal-and-google-debut-project-aura-ar-glasses-to-rival-meta-s-orion-glasses
http://www.techmeme.com/250520/p44#a250520p44

President Trump's recent Middle East trip helped Elon Musk's SpaceX and Neuralink to cut deals, deepening Musk's ties with the region's autocratic monarchies (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/world/middleeast/gulf-deal-making-spree-also-benefited-elon-musk-and-his-family.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250520/p8#a250520p8