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Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft

The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 China Senate NASA

In Q2, Apple's base iPhone 17 was the global best-selling smartphone, with a 6% share, followed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max; Apple and Samsung had all 10 top spots (www.counterpointresearch.com)
2026-8-27 iPhone Samsung Apple

Sources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its ~$3B valuation in 2021 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” (z.ai)
2026-8-27 AI

Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27 Startup

Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-27 Amazon

Snowflake ends service-account passwords. Now comes the hard part (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27 China FBI

Meta's AG settlement will be distributed to the 48 signing states and four jurisdictions in annual installments over a 10-year period based on their populations (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-26

Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-26

Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-26

Meta says it reached a deal with 51 US AGs, including “strict daily time limits teens can't turn off”, and calls on TikTok and YouTube to adopt the standards (about.fb.com)
2026-8-26 YouTube

Filing: Meta reaches a settlement to resolve 29 US states' claims under COPPA that it designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children and misled consumers (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 Facebook Instagram

Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 Russia Ukraine Elon Musk

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 Alibaba

Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26

Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-26 Microsoft

Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-26 Microsoft

Rockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking “in this way has been heartbreaking”, calling it “unfortunate” that the “game experience may now be impacted” by spoilers (kotaku.com)
2026-8-26

Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment (blog.andymasley.com)
2026-8-26

Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
2026-8-26 China AI

Hackers now exploit critical Gitea flaw in code injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-26

Study for 7 CompTIA certifications for $49.99 with this lifetime bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-26

Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become “AI native”, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 AI Shanghai

Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 AI Egypt

10 Bizarre Ways People Used Blood in the Past (listverse.com)
2026-8-26

A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-26

Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

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