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Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-25 Apple Tim Cook

Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25

Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-25 Bitcoin ETF

AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25

Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July (www.abc.net.au)
2026-8-25 Australia AI

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Drone

Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 Robot Shanghai

World's Oceans Hit Highest Temperature On Record As El Nino Grows (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25

Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach $1.5B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25 Nvidia

Sources: Apple is about to launch a new Mac mini, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple has tested versions with M5 and M6 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25 iPhone Apple

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-25

Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25 China AI

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-25 Startup

Amazon Hikes Hardware Prices By 60%, Blaming Memory Shortage (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25 Amazon

Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-25 AI

Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain (www.macrumors.com)
2026-8-25 Apple

SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25 AI Hedge Fund

Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-25 IPO

Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25 Trump H1B

Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash (www.axios.com)
2026-8-25 Canada California Logistics

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (www.axios.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Robot

10 Movie Sequels That Took Decades to Arrive (listverse.com)
2026-8-25

Unpatched Calix flaw lets hackers bypass NAT to expose internal devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-25

At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-25 AI

Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-25 Raspberry Pi

Hackers target WordPress sites in miniOrange auth bypass attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-25 WordPress

Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7% (www.pcmag.com)
2026-8-25 Intel AMD

TikTok reaches $400M settlement with US over COPPA violations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-25

Nvidia Senior Manager Linked To Supermicro Scheme Smuggling AI Servers To China (slashdot.org)
2026-8-25 China AI Nvidia

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