Tech

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

Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Microsoft rolls out fix for Windows 11 crashes, gaming issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft

Webinar: How Google Workspace breaches happen and what to do next (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27 Google

Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 Japan

Kalshi partners with Weather Co. to verify climate and weather prediction market settlements; Kalshi says weather vertical trading volume will hit $1.1B in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Climate

More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27

Samsung unveils the Galaxy S26 FE, offering a MediaTek, not Qualcomm, chipset, 12GB of RAM, a dialed-back camera system from the S26, for $700+, a $50 jump (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Samsung

OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-27 India

Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 Russia AI SpaceX

Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group (krebsonsecurity.com)
2026-8-27 Australia

AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Robot Shenzhen

ATF confirms “major incident” after recent Qilin breach claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

CISA orders feds to patch Citrix NetScaler RCE flaw by Saturday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

Get a year of Surfshark One+ and Incogni for $95 (reg. $250.20) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

Carhartt data breach exposes information of 12.9 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: Adam Mosseri met with state AG representatives roughly a month ago, saying Meta would appeal any adverse verdict but was willing to make changes (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' “vested interest” was misleading states to attack prediction markets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-27 Trump Republican

Meta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Facebook Instagram

Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' “tacit knowledge” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-27 AI

X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl (variety.com)
2026-8-27

Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including new interactive systems that let player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media (www.dazeddigital.com)
2026-8-27

YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-27 YouTube

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is set to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$6.20, or near the midpoint of its marketed range, raising $1.73B and valuing it at ~$26.5B (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 Hong Kong IPO Singapore

10 Super Unsettling Historical Facts We Wish Were False (listverse.com)
2026-8-27

Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-27

UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (www.ft.com)
2026-8-27 AI

A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27 France

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