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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

Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-8-23 Iran

Battery Fires At Recycling Centres Are Costing the UK £1bn a Year (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 Battery

Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-23 Bitcoin

How Will AI Change the Field of Mathematics? (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 AI Mathematics

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-23 Startup AI

Rush Rescue Mission for NASA's $500M Space Telescope Fails (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 NASA

Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 AI

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-23 London

Low Emission Zone Led To Better Lung Size, Function Among London Children (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 London

Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-23 Nvidia

Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-23 AI

Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23

A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-23 China AI

Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-23

Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates? What Economists Say (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 AI Unemployment

Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 Android IOS Firefox VPN

New York Dethrones San Francisco Bay Area As Largest Tech Talent Market (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 San Francisco New York

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction (www.wired.com)
2026-8-23 Energy

Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (wccftech.com)
2026-8-23 AI

Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-23 Android

Named Pipes Under Attack: Securing Windows Interprocess Communication (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-23

Take your Claude skills to the next level for $15 in this course deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-23

Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 LinkedIn AI

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Robot

'Off the Charts' El Nino Is Already the Strongest Since Records Began (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22

With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-8-22 AI

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