New York Times:
Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns — Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted …
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations — Waymo has been given permission to map roadways at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) via a temporary permit — the first step …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Cognition, maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised hundreds of millions led by 8VC at a ~$4B valuation, doubling its $2B valuation from April 2024 — The new funding round is being led by 8VC, the Joe Lonsdale-backed venture capital firm, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
A critical Apache Tomcat RCE flaw is being exploited, letting attackers take over servers via a PUT request; Wallarm: the attack “requires no authentication” — A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Tomcat tracked as CVE-2025-24813 is actively exploited in the wild …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others “exploit” copyrighted works — More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy …
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Some owners of devices running Roku OS report seeing autoplaying video ads before they can access the home screen; Roku says it is just a test — Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further and forced people to watch a video ad play before getting to the Roku OS home screen.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
President Trump’s World Liberty Financial says it raised $250M in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550M — President Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project said on Monday that it raised $250 million in its second token sale, bringing the total amount of coins sold to $550 million.
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: US Commerce Department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that DeepSeek is banned on their government devices — U.S. Commerce department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek is banned on their government devices …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by ruling Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on Amazon.com — The ecommerce giant claims it’s not responsible for recalling items sold by third parties.
Zhiye Liu / Tom’s Hardware:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2 for gaming handhelds, saying the G3 Gen 3 offers a CPU 30% faster than the previous generation — Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 enter the ring. — Qualcomm expanded its Snapdragon G series …
