Tech

Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding (taekim.substack.com)
2026-9-8 chatbot

Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (importai.substack.com)
2026-9-8 Google Mathematics

Magento StyleSmuggler zero-day exploited to deploy Linux backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-8 Linux

BigBear Microsoft 365 phishing service bypassed MFA at 258 organizations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-8 Microsoft

Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan (www.ft.com)
2026-9-8 China Belgium

Sources: London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-8 Equity London

Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (www.theguardian.com)
2026-9-8

The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds (pressgazette.co.uk)
2026-9-8

'She Lost Her Sight. Her Billionaire Father Bet On a Daring New Treatment.' (science.slashdot.org)
2026-9-8

'The Jobs Apocalypse Is Postponed. An AI Jobs Boom Is Here' (slashdot.org)
2026-9-7 AI

Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-7 AI

Mathspace discloses data breach affecting over 1 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-7 Startup

Block ads for your whole family online for life: AdGuard is $15 today (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

Trezor data breach impact now reaches 81,000 customers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows that rentosertib, a drug developed to treat a chronic lung disease, could slow aging (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-7 AI

A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage (www.ft.com)
2026-9-7

ConnectWise warns of new ScreenConnect flaw without patch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

ChatGPT can now connect to your personal apps to mimic writing style (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

Hackers exploit new MikroTik RouterOS flaws to hijack routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-7 Hong Kong IPO

Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-9-7

How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-7 AI

N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-7

A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-7 China AI Job Market

Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7 Bitcoin

LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-7 Startup

An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (thezvi.substack.com)
2026-9-7

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2026-9-7 Bitcoin

Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-9-7 AI

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