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PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-29

Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation (www.restaurantbusinessonline.com)
2026-8-29 AI

Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29 Microsoft AI Nvidia

GiveWP WordPress donation plugin flaw lets hackers execute server commands (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-29 WordPress

Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29 Pentagon

Exponential growth across 2 dimensions, users and tokens per user, makes this AI era different from earlier buildouts, and allows AI labs' compute math to work (x.com)
2026-8-29 AI Mathematics

Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29

FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-29 Startup

68-year-old imprisoned after making $1.3 million by pirating IPTV services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-29

Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-29 China Thailand AI

a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-29 AI

Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29

Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29 Startup Indonesia

US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-29

How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-8-29

AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-29 AI

Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 (variety.com)
2026-8-28 Apple

Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 Robot

Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Australia India Asia Southeast Asia

Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 China AI Entrepreneur

Toy-making giant Hasbro disclose data breach affecting employees (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 China

Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28

Windows 11 KB5120998 update released with 35 changes and fixes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

ServiceNow warns of three max severity security vulnerabilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

Lifetime access to 1,000+ online courses is just $19.97 through 8/30 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 Korea AI

Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28

Sources: Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 China Hong Kong IPO New York London

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