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Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler

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    Judge dismisses X lawsuit accusing advertisers of an “illegal boycott.”

    Elon Musk said it was “war” in 2024, as X filed its antitrust lawsuit against World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) members over their Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative.

    Now a judge has dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be brought again:

    …if facts existed that GARM operated at an X competitor’s behest to put X out of business or that GARM advertisers sought to unfairly exclude competing advertisers from doing business, X would have pleaded those facts. The very nature of the alleged conspiracy does not state an antitrust claim, and the Court
    therefore has no qualm dismissing with prejudice.

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    Richard Lawler
    AMD says its first CPU with dual 3D V-Cache bridges the gap between workstation and gaming PCs.

    The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is a follow-up to last year’s excellent gaming chip, with 16 Zen 5 cores and 208MB of total cachem with the V-Cache split across both chiplets.

    However, its upgrades may not do much for gaming alone, with the company’s pitch instead highlighting a 5 - 10 percent performance bump in creative apps like DaVinci Resolve, positioning it as a compromise option between Threadripper CPUs and options like the Ryzen 7 9850X3D.

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    Richard Lawler
    Elon’s next legal argument: LinkedIn emoji reactions.

    Musk’s lawyers are trying to overturn the recent verdict that found his self-described “stupid tweets” were liable for losses incurred by Twitter investors, pointing to an emoji reaction to a post on LinkedIn from the account of Judge Kathaleen McCormick. In a filing of her own, Reuters reports McCormick said she hadn’t read the post, and that “I either did not click the ‘support’ icon at all, or I did so accidentally.”

    Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Musk’s court filing
    Screenshot: court filing
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Now blog posts can cross the fediverse.

    A New Social’s Bridgy Fed tech has been linking microblog posts and accounts across services like Mastodon and Bluesky for a while, but now that ability applies to more macro content as well:

    ….users on platforms like Mastodon will see the announcement with the article attached, but platforms that support long-form like WordPress and Ghost will get the whole article, and both will be treated as the same post across the Fediverse.

    Apple’s WWDC 2026 event starts June 8thApple’s WWDC 2026 event starts June 8th
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    Richard Lawler
    Sam Altman’s AI company is in talks to buy electrity from Sam Altman’s fusion startup.

    According to Axios, discussing a potential energy deal between OpenAI and Helion Energy for “a guaranteed portion of Helion’s production, potentially scaling to 50 gigawatts by 2035 (assuming the company can develop a fusion process that generates more energy than it consumes).

    Axios also reports Altman has stepped down as Helion’s board chair and recused himself from discussions.

    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    Google’s old drone project is launching service in the Bay Area.

    Project Wing launched as a part of Google X more than a decade ago, and now, in 2026, the Alphabet subsidiary Wing is announcing drone delivery service will be available in the Bay Area soon. It hasn’t announced partners or other details yet, but says interested residents can sign up for updates here.

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    Richard Lawler
    Meta says its AI moderation systems will replace contractors over the next few years.

    Last year, content moderators who’ve risked consequences like PTSD working for Big Tech companies have started to organize for better treatment in the last several years. Now, Meta has announced a wide rollout of its AI support assistant for Facebook and Instagram, and that it will “reduce our reliance on third-party vendors” employing humans for content enforcement.

    While we’ll still have people who review content, these systems will be able to take on work that’s better-suited to technology, like repetitive reviews of graphic content or areas where adversarial actors are constantly changing their tactics, such as with illicit drugs sales or scams.