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// Tech news at terminal velocity
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▸ • SpaceX is dropping a casual $60 billion to acquire AI coding darling Cursor, marking the largest VC-backed startup acquisition in history.
▸ • Microsoft unveiled 'Project Perception,' a new agentic cybersecurity system that uses AI red, blue, and green teams to fight off threats.
▸ • Elon Musk's 'everything app' dream inches closer to reality as X Money rolls out to US Premium subscribers with P2P payments and metal Visa cards.
In what is now the largest VC-backed startup acquisition ever, SpaceX is buying AI coding assistant Cursor for a mind-bending $60 billion. Meanwhile, Cursor just launched a $7/month tier in India, proving they can simultaneously cater to the world's largest developer market and the world's richest man.
Microsoft just dropped its first cybersecurity-specialized model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, alongside an agentic platform called Perception. It uses AI 'red, blue, and green teams' to find vulnerabilities and patch them at machine speed, taking a direct swing at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Elon Musk's quest to turn X into an 'everything app' continues with the rollout of X Money for US Premium subscribers. It features a digital wallet, Venmo-style P2P payments, and a metal Visa card you can permanently scar with your X handle.
Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles are officially hitting the streets of London. They'll be available on Freenow, the mobility network Lyft acquired back in 2025, because nothing says 'cheerio' like a driverless car navigating roundabouts.
Before the $60B SpaceX buyout, Cursor was just two MIT students pitching a 'people-first' venture firm called Neo. This deep dive reveals how Neo mentored the team through the brutal 2022 VC winter and almost fumbled the seed check by trying to lowball them by 30%.
Most advice about scraping Cloudflare-fronted sites is just folklore repeated on Reddit. The DEV Community actually tested the variables—residential vs. datacenter IPs, Python requests vs. Chrome impersonation—and found that the most common advice is completely wrong.
Microsoft's CEO has a grim prediction: companies that rely on a single AI model for everything might not survive. He argues that without 'AI gateways' to separate your prompts from the underlying model, you're essentially building your house on rented, highly volatile land.
Cloudflare just dropped a curl-like tool designed to simplify the testing of complex privacy protocols like OHTTP. It's built with AI agents in mind, making it easier to debug the privacy layers used by Apple and Microsoft.
The popular open-source AI model repository is under fire for doing very little to prevent its hosted models from generating nonconsensual deepfakes. It's a stark reminder that open-source AI is a double-edged sword, and right now, the moderation edge is incredibly dull.
Fusion power startup Thea Energy just snagged a $20 million ARPA-E award. The cash will be used to scale the production of their high-temperature superconducting magnets, bringing us one tiny step closer to the holy grail of infinite clean energy.
A missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed Kik username ('fus__ro_dah' vs 'fus_ro_dah') led police to the wrong suspect. The typo resulted in an innocent Canadian man spending 18 months in prison, proving that syntax errors can literally ruin lives.
An extended Xbox outage didn't just prevent players from downloading digital games—it actually blocked them from playing their physical, disc-based games too. Welcome to the future, where you don't actually own the things you hold in your hands.