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Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn

Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to Prime Day 2026, which begins on 23 June. Check Point Research tracked 6,843 new domains created between December 2025 and May 2026, with registrations peaking at 1,446 in April and remaining elevated at 1,267 in May. Of the […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/c76O3g1 Read full article: The Next Web

Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock

Robinhood Markets is raising two billion dollars through a sale of convertible senior notes due October 2029, joining a surge of zero-coupon convertible issuance from technology companies betting that investors will accept no interest in exchange for equity upside. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are leading the offering, according to Bloomberg, with a greenshoe option that […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/EnQrOcZ Read full article: The Next Web

Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites

Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin that exposes API keys, OAuth tokens, and detailed system configuration data to anyone who sends a single unauthenticated HTTP request. Wordfence, the WordPress security firm owned by Defiant, says it has blocked more than 17 million exploit attempts targeting the flaw since activity […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/jbYD5z7 Read full article: The Next Web

Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer

OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/ukqOD75 Read full article: The Next Web

A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they encounter on those platforms. The group represents 7% of Dutch adults, up from 2% […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/TjK9Swu Read full article: The Next Web

Microsoft is considering spinning off Xbox entirely as the division’s margins hit 3%

Microsoft has not ruled out spinning off its Xbox division into a separate company. The Information reported that options under consideration include turning Xbox into a wholly owned subsidiary, forming a joint venture with outside partners, or selling the business outright. No decision is imminent, but new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Microsoft CEO Satya […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/HNr2iFa Read full article: The Next Web

IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system” if they fall into the wrong hands. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva made the comments in Brussels while presenting the Fund’s annual economic assessment of the eurozone. “What we recognize […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/jabs2UG Read full article: The Next Web

From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once

The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful of anxieties: generative AI, streaming fraud, underpaid songwriters, and the organisations meant to protect them. Four issues, in particular, dominated the agenda. Each one carries the potential to […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/CBnhKGY Read full article: The Next Web

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/KBZm3kX Read full article: The Next Web

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main Coinbase account or can operate in a separate sandbox. It trades spot crypto and derivatives markets, with support for equities and prediction markets planned next. Users can […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/7hoDRAL Read full article: The Next Web

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