Tech

Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-8-21

Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 AI Mathematics

Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 Brazil

Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21

Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 IPO SpaceX

This lifetime Babbel offer puts 14 languages at your fingertips (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21

YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 YouTube Netflix

Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year requiring enterprises to retain data for 30 days, with an option to do so on their own cloud infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21

Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years (blog.google)
2026-8-21 Google

Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M (gamesbeat.com)
2026-8-21 AI

Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-21 China Nvidia

Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a “depraved” test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21

Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 AI

The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 China Robot

FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 Japan AI

Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-21 Europe U.S. Africa Latin America

A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants sought assurances that their info would be removed (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-21 Google

Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21 WordPress

Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 Nvidia

How MSPs can catch phishing attacks email filters miss (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21

Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID; unit shipments fell 39% as average console prices hit $542 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20

Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode is acquiring four-year-old AI consultancy Casper for an undisclosed fee; Ode has 100+ staff after buying Fractional (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-20 AI

Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on inside US military information, attracting copycat bets and making $8M overall, with a 97.2% average win rate (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20

Citrix urges admins to patch new NetScaler flaws as soon as possible (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

GTA 6 leaker CyberLeek releases more footage, including a video of a character spelling “leek” with bullet holes in a wall, suggesting direct access to the game (www.eurogamer.net)
2026-8-20

Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents “like teammates” across all Slack plans (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-20 AI Slack

New Study Challenges Common Assumptions About Screen Time For Kids (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20

Sources: Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas (www.wired.com)
2026-8-20 Trump Elon Musk Texas

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