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Could Mecha Comet's Linux PC-Phone Hybrid Be the Future of Linux Smartphones? (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Linux

SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Japan Retail

A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-24 U.S. Google Microsoft AI

Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash (www.axios.com)
2026-8-24 Trump

The Global Race To Make a Practical Quantum Computer Just Took a Big Leap Forward (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Quantum

Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 Hong Kong IPO Morgan Stanley JPMorgan Goldman

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-24 AI

Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Amazon AI

OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing 'ChatGPT For Teens' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24

Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (www.axios.com)
2026-8-24 Republican

Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-24

Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Iran

Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 Russia

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24

Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24 AI

Stop renting cloud storage and own 2TB for just $55 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-24

ToxicPanda Android malware uses VPN permissions to block Google Play (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-24 Android Google VPN

Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-24 Alibaba AI

Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24

23 Years After SimCity 4's Release, 'Eternal Commuter' Bug Finally Fixed (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-24

Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-24 iPhone Face ID iPad

The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-23 China AI

Supply Chain Issues Delaying US Grid Batteries' Installation (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23

Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 AI

A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-23

The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (www.ft.com)
2026-8-23 Korea ETF Education

Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-23 Walmart

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (www.ft.com)
2026-8-23 Samsung

Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23

Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-23 China AI Nvidia

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