Tech

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

Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter foundational model with a 1M context window that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 AI Tencent

The UK Treasury gives the Bank of England a new legal objective to support payment systems and digital money innovation, seeking to keep London competitive (www.ft.com)
2026-8-28 London

10 Famous Movie Sets & Filming Locations You Can Still Visit Today (listverse.com)
2026-8-28

Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Canada

Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 Democrat Republican

Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing? (slashdot.org)
2026-8-28

BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 Asset

Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 KPMG

Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28

A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Pentagon

CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28

Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28

Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+ (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-28

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Uber AI Budget

AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Android AI

Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 YouTube

Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 AI Nvidia

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28 AI

OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent (features.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 AI

Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Startup AI

Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 Trump

Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (www.ft.com)
2026-8-28 Google Alphabet

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-28 AI

Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28

Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-28 Google Intelligence

Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 AI Nvidia

Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 Salesforce

Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28

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