#BrainUp Daily Tech News – (Sunday, May 31ˢᵗ)
Welcome to today’s curated collection of interesting links and insights for 2026/05/31. Our Hand-picked, AI-optimized system has processed and summarized 6 articles from all over the internet to bring you the latest technology news.
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8. After 22 years, you can finally download Paint.net from the URL ‘Paint.net’
@Rick Brewster, the developer of #Paint.net, has secured the Paint.net domain after 22 years of being unable to acquire it from its previous owners. The article says the owners had either refused to sell or demanded a large payment, but in December 2025 they redesigned the site to resemble the real Paint.net download page and monetized it with bad links and ads. Brewster pursued legal action over #copyright infringement and #domainSquatting, and with a lawyer’s help won control of the domain. The new Paint.net site is being migrated and will become the main download destination, while GetPaint.net will redirect there so decades of existing links continue to work.
Rivian’s head of software says #CarPlay and #AndroidAuto will eventually be replaced by #AI agents you can talk to, but the article argues that this idea is misguided. The piece frames current phone projection systems as useful, familiar tools that already solve the in-car software problem without forcing drivers into a new and unproven interface. It suggests that replacing them with conversational AI would add complexity, depend on unreliable voice interaction, and risk removing features people actually want. The argument is that #CarPlay and #AndroidAuto are not outdated placeholders, but practical solutions that should remain central to the driving experience.
12. Ohio Hits Pause on Data Center Tax Breaks After Farmer Pushback
Ohio has paused new #data center #tax exemptions after farmer pushback over transparency, land use, water demand, electricity needs, and local tax impacts. Ohio Farm Bureau’s Evan Callicoat said the state ranks fifth nationally for #data center concentration, with an estimated 200 to 250 sites, and rural communities statewide are now facing related development questions. Producers are concerned that projects could take farmland, strain water quantity and quality, increase pressure on the electric grid, and raise costs for rural residents. Callicoat said sales tax exemptions for construction materials, originally expected to cost tens of millions of dollars after being created around 2013, exceeded $2 billion in 2024 and 2025 alone, prompting lawmakers to pause new requests while reviewing the issue. He credited thousands of Ohio Farm Bureau members for contacting legislators and the governor’s office, linking the pause to grassroots pressure for more scrutiny of #rural development impacts.
Researchers in Japan developed a #non-volatile switching element that could greatly increase processor speed while producing minimal additional waste heat, potentially easing #data center energy demands. The device, built from ultrathin tantalum and #antiferromagnetic Mn3Sn layers on a silica base, used ultrafast light pulses and a uni-traveling-carrier photodiode to switch magnetic states in about 40 picoseconds, compared with conventional chips that struggle to process a bit in under a nanosecond. Laboratory tests showed consistent operation across more than a billion switches, and the magnetic information did not require a continuous flow of electricity to be maintained. Because #waste heat is a major barrier to scaling high-performance computing, this #ultralow-power switching approach could help processors run faster without the cooling and energy burdens typical of current server systems.
27. Polymarket Cracks Down on VPN Users as Legal Pressure Intensifies in Dozens of Countries
The article reports that @Polymarket is cracking down on users who access the betting platform through #VPNs as #legal pressure grows across dozens of countries. The move suggests the company is trying to limit access from jurisdictions where its operations face scrutiny or restrictions. This reflects a broader conflict between decentralized access tools and country-by-country gambling and trading rules. As regulators intensify their oversight, platforms like Polymarket are being pushed to enforce geographic restrictions more aggressively.
34. Anthropic Is Now Worth More Than OpenAI
@Anthropic has reportedly overtaken @OpenAI in valuation after raising $65 billion in Series H funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $965 billion compared with @OpenAI’s most recent $852 billion valuation. The article notes that this lead comes with caveats, including uncertainty around #AI profitability, unclear accounting behind @Anthropic’s reported quarterly operating profit, and massive computing commitments to companies such as @Amazon, @Google, @Broadcom, and @SpaceX. @Anthropic’s revenue growth is tied to enterprise demand and products like #Claude Code, while @OpenAI is portrayed as playing catch-up with tools such as #Codex. Because both companies remain private, their valuations are difficult to verify, though secondary-market estimates and prediction markets also suggest @Anthropic may be ahead. Potential #IPO filings from both companies could soon provide clearer public pricing and settle which #AI company investors value more.
That’s all for today’s digest for 2026/05/31! We picked, and processed 6 Articles. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s collection of insights and discoveries.
Thanks, Patricia Zougheib and Dr Badawi, for curating the links
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