How Uganda’s government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country’s biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
How Uganda’s government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country’s biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power  —  The East African country’s identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics

An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone network to catch criminals like “Microsoft” (Joseph Cox/Wired)

Joseph Cox / Wired:
An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone network to catch criminals like “Microsoft”  —  When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners’ hands.

A profile of CoreWeave, as the cloud GPU provider reveals plans to build three European data centers for $2.2B and repurpose several Core Scientific facilities (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
A profile of CoreWeave, as the cloud GPU provider reveals plans to build three European data centers for $2.2B and repurpose several Core Scientific facilities  —  CoreWeave benefits from jump in AI chip demand and eyes UK and Europe expansion  —  An upstart challenger to cloud computing giants Amazon …

Singapore-based Nium, a B2B cross-border payments infrastructure provider, raised $50M at a $1.4B valuation, down from $2B in 2022, as the firm eyes a 2025 IPO (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Singapore-based Nium, a B2B cross-border payments infrastructure provider, raised $50M at a $1.4B valuation, down from $2B in 2022, as the firm eyes a 2025 IPO  —  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Financial technology startup Nium told CNBC Wednesday it raised $50 million in new funds from investors …

YouTube, the only major US platform available in Russia, has become a primary source of entertainment for many Russians, making a ban tricky for the Kremlin (Justin Ling/Wired)

Justin Ling / Wired:
YouTube, the only major US platform available in Russia, has become a primary source of entertainment for many Russians, making a ban tricky for the Kremlin  —  YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia.  It’s become “indispensable” to everyday people, making a ban tricky.

Australia’s eSafety commissioner ends the legal action asking X to remove a video of a clergyman’s stabbing; Musk labelled the action an assault on free speech (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Australia’s eSafety commissioner ends the legal action asking X to remove a video of a clergyman’s stabbing; Musk labelled the action an assault on free speech  —  Australia’s eSafety commissioner has ended legal action that aimed to compel social network X to take down a video depicting …

Switzerland-based Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $27M Series B led by Forestay (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Switzerland-based Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $27M Series B led by Forestay  —  As pressure from Chinese competitors intensifies and the EV market stalls, major U.S. and European auto manufacturers are racing …

Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner says he was fired in April for sharing a memo raising concerns about OpenAI’s security practices with the board (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner says he was fired in April for sharing a memo raising concerns about OpenAI’s security practices with the board  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner also said he was interrogated about his team’s “loyalty to the company”  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner …

Twelve Labs, which provides foundational models to help users search and analyze troves of video, raised a $50M Series A co-led by NEA and Nvidia’s NVentures (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Twelve Labs, which provides foundational models to help users search and analyze troves of video, raised a $50M Series A co-led by NEA and Nvidia’s NVentures  —  – It’s co-leading a $50 million round for Twelve Labs Inc.  — The startup is trying to make searching videos easier, faster