Tech

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

YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams (www.engadget.com)
2026-8-28 Amazon YouTube

Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Trump Ban

This Lenovo Chromebook is down from $200 to just $55 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28 Lenovo

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 AI Robot Quantum

Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-28 IPO

Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-28 AI Instagram

Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Trump

Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Nvidia

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Microsoft AI

OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 AI

Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Nvidia

Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-28 Trump AI

Manchester Airports Group says hackers stole travelers' data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more (deepmind.google)
2026-8-28 Google

Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 AI 4Q Nvidia

Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Twitter

Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (deepmind.google)
2026-8-28 Google AI

How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 AI

Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google” (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-28 Google Apple

CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a “Google Maps for the underground”, raised a $26M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Google Asset

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Android Google AI

Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 AI

Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-28 AI Zuckerberg

Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28 Android

How Threat Research and MDR Help SMBs Build a Defensive Edge (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-8-27 Startup AI

Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies (www.politico.com)
2026-8-27 Trump

Australia arrests alleged TeamPCP hackers behind supply-chain attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27 Australia

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