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A new, bipartisan idea is taking Washington by storm: collective ownership of the means of production.Last Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he would soon be meeting with the executives of top AI companies to discuss a financial “partnership.”“There are concepts where pieces [of these companies] could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies,” Trump said. “And by doing that, they’re going to like it better.”President Donald Trump says the government may take ownership stakes in major AI companies and share the returns with the public — an idea pitched…

Google has been slowly phasing out Manifest V2, the older framework that powers many Chrome extensions, since October 2024. For most users, ad blockers like uBlock Origin stopped working by default well over a year ago. Power users found technical workarounds that kept them alive a little longer, but Chrome’s next update removes the last of those loopholes for good. The last flag falls A recent Chromium code commit, spotted by CyberNews (via 9to5Google), removes the kExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag, which developers had been using as a backdoor to keep Manifest V2-based extensions running in Chrome. Google describes the flag as “dead…

Nintendo is facing a potential incident after a threat actor claimed to have stolen nearly a decade’s worth of internal corporate data and demanded a $2 million ransom to prevent the information from being released publicly. While the gaming giant has not confirmed the alleged breach, Cybernews researchers reviewing samples of the leaked data say portions of the material appear credible. “The sample contains HR data, such as pulse surveys and questionnaires about how employees are feeling at work,” researchers noted after examining files published by the threat actor. Key takeaway from the breach A threat actor known as ShadowByte$…

Marketers, take note: New research using 2.7 million data points from the 2026 Winter Olympics revealed how AI systems form and preserve narratives about brands, athletes, and organizations.

Xbox is preparing to shut down or sell at least three of its studios — Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion Games — according to reports from The Verge and Bloomberg on Monday.  Ninja Theory employees were informed on Monday that the studio would be closing, according to The Verge, but the team is attempting to find a buyer that can keep them operational. Ninja Theory is the studio behind the Hellblade series and it was featured in the recent Xbox Summer Game Fest showcase, revealing a new entry due in 2027. Double Fine is the legendary studio behind the Psychonauts…

Meta did an “atrocious” job of rolling out a new artificial intelligence division and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and even snacks, a top executive told employees on Monday in an internal post seen by WIRED.The comments made by Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, follow reporting by WIRED last week that revealed widespread dissatisfaction within the Applied AI engineering unit. Meta formed the division of about 6,500 engineers and product managers in March to work on projects aimed at improving the company’s generative AI models. But what workers described as…

Gigamon Inc. today said it has integrated its network telemetry with Zscaler Inc.’s zero-trust access service, a move meant to show security teams what users do once they’re inside a private application rather than just who let them in. The tie-up connects Zscaler Private Access with Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence, part of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. Zscaler Private Access grants access to a given application based on identity and policy. Users never land on the corporate network. What the service does not track is the behavior that follows, and that’s the gap Gigamon is meant to fill. The problem…

Light switches. How on earth is it so hard to find decent light switches?! It sounds ridiculous until you actually spend enough time looking for ones that meet two simple criteria:Aren’t stateful (switch is up or down, has to be push-button)Looks goodNow, I’m conscious that this is also very likely an Australian problem, more so than a European or North American one. We’re pretty limited by what we get down here, and because it involves electricity, the switches here have to pass all sorts of local Aussie tests and standards. I can’t just jump onto eBay or Amazon and ship…

CNET’s deals team and I are always looking to bring you the best discounts from your favorite retailers, like Amazon and Walmart. With the Prime Day sale event creeping up on us, we’re seeing quite a few early discounts that are secretly dropping. It can be tricky trying to decide if it’s a real steal or just retailer fluff, especially during a sale event. We rounded up the standout discounts our CNET shopping experts actually recommend this week, including savings on tech, home essentials and everyday favorites.Our CNET Deals text subscribers get these deals sent to them before anyone else does. I’ll send the…

Centralized software is failing. We traded security for convenience, with our data paying the price. It’s becoming a weekly ritual. A tech giant announces a security incident, and hundreds of companies feel the brunt. And with Oracle’s PeopleSoft exploit, the message is clear now- the platform economy is a centralized target. The problem is how we’ve built the modern office. Companies have funneled every function into these third-party ecosystems. It’s great for efficiency, but it’s a security disaster. You’re betting on that basket and the entire supply chain. Especially when you put all your eggs in one digital basket. And…