European Commission Fines Google €890 Million Under the Digital Markets Act

The European Commission fined Google €890 million after finding that the company breached the Digital Markets Act by favoring its own services in search results and combining business-user data with other Google services without valid consent. The Commission ordered Google to end the conduct and said the penalty reflects the duration and gravity of the infringements.

Google can challenge the decision in court. The fine is the Commission’s latest enforcement action under the DMA, which imposes obligations on designated digital gatekeepers rather than waiting for a conventional competition case to run its full course.

Featured source: Ars Technica , European Commission .

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Alphabet Reports Negative Quarterly Free Cash Flow as Capital Spending Reaches $44.9 Billion

Alphabet reported negative free cash flow for the second quarter as capital expenditures rose to $44.9 billion, driven largely by AI infrastructure. Free cash flow is the company's non-GAAP measure: Alphabet remained profitable and reported $53.3 billion in free cash flow over the trailing 12 months.

Filed from: Ars Technica , Alphabet earnings release .

Bipartisan House Bill Proposes Emergency Controls for Powerful AI Systems

Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require developers of covered advanced AI systems to maintain mechanisms for emergency shutdown and allow the federal government to order their use under defined conditions. The proposal has been introduced in the House and is not law.

Filed from: Ars Technica , Congressional announcement .

European Commission Preliminarily Finds TikTok’s Minors Settings Breach the DSA

The European Commission said TikTok exposes minors’ accounts and content too widely, including by allowing public posts from users aged 16 and 17 to enter the For You feed. The findings are preliminary; TikTok can respond before a final decision, which could carry a fine of up to 6% of global annual turnover.

Filed from: The Verge , European Commission .

AMD Details Helios Rack-Scale AI System Ahead of Second-Half Shipments

AMD described its Helios rack-scale platform, combining Instinct accelerators, EPYC processors, networking, and open software in a system designed for large AI deployments. The company says shipments are planned for the second half of 2026, with Microsoft among the customers preparing to deploy next-generation Instinct infrastructure.

Filed from: TechCrunch , AMD .

GitHub Gives Dependabot Version Updates a Default Three-Day Cooldown

Dependabot now waits at least three days after a release before opening non-security version-update pull requests, giving maintainers and scanners time to catch short-lived malicious releases. Security updates still open immediately, and repositories can configure a different delay.

Filed from: GitHub .

Azure Maintenance Bug Disrupts 27 Services in West US

A Microsoft maintenance operation severed connectivity in the West US Azure region for nearly five hours, affecting 27 services, according to the company’s preliminary post-incident review reported by The Register. The personalized Azure incident record requires account access, so the public account remains dependent on that report.

Filed from: The Register .

Meta Leaves the RE100 Renewable-Energy Initiative

Meta and the Climate Group’s RE100 initiative mutually agreed that the company would leave the corporate renewable-electricity program after a decade. Neither organization publicly gave a reason for the departure, and RE100 said Meta remained committed to its own clean-energy goals.

Filed from: TechCrunch , Climate Group .

Mobileye Founder Amnon Shashua Plans to Step Down as CEO

Mobileye said founder Amnon Shashua will leave the chief executive role after the company appoints a successor, while remaining executive chair of its board. The planned transition comes as Mobileye expands beyond driver-assistance systems into robotaxis and robotics.

Filed from: TechCrunch , Mobileye .

Patreon Cuts 20% of Its Workforce

Patreon cut 20% of its workforce and reorganized into a flatter structure, with chief executive Jack Conte describing the changes as part of a shift toward smaller teams and faster product development. The company did not disclose the number of affected employees in its public announcement.

Filed from: TechCrunch , Patreon .

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Black Forest Labs and Mimic Robotics Deploy a Video-Action Model at Audi

Black Forest Labs and mimic Robotics introduced FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on FLUX 3 intermediate features and tested on Audi production lines. The companies say the system handles tasks including parts kitting, control-unit insertion, and manipulation of flexible seals and cables; the performance claims come from the vendors.

Filed from: Black Forest Labs .

Hanwha Camera Firmware Exposed a Privileged GitHub Token

A security researcher found a GitHub token with administrative access to hundreds of repositories embedded across files in Hanwha Vision camera firmware, apparently after a frontend build captured CI environment variables. The researcher says Hanwha revoked the token within 12 hours of disclosure; Department of Defense IP addresses found in the same environment may have come from shared CI infrastructure.

Filed from: Researcher’s report .

Software Rendering in 500 Lines of Bare C++

Tiny Renderer is a tutorial series that builds a software rasterizer in roughly 500 lines of C++ without third-party graphics libraries. Its lessons progress through lines, triangle rasterization, depth buffering, textures, and shading, with the complete implementation published alongside the text.

Filed from: Tutorial , GitHub repository .

Existential Types on a Leash

A Haskell developer presents an encoding that uses linear functions and a proof token to expose existential types without GADT wrappers or continuation-passing style. The technique enables lazy constructions such as list-to-vector conversion, while relying on unsafeCoerce and the correctness of Dupable instances for safety.

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Palmier Pro Opens Its macOS Video-Editing Core

Palmier Pro is a GPLv3 video editor for Apple Silicon Macs that integrates generative-media tools into its timeline and exposes an MCP server for agent-driven editing. The core editor is open source, while its hosted generative features require a subscription.

Filed from: GitHub repository .