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Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 AI GitHub

Duolingo reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $298.5M, paid subscribers up 17% to 12.7M, below est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; DUOL drops 11%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6

DoorDash reports Q2 marketplace gross order value up 36% YoY to $33.08B, vs. $32.08B est., and forecasts Q3 marketplace GOV and adjusted EBITDA above estimates (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6

Binance affiliates are suing RedotPay's founders for allegedly diverting 470K+ users to a competing product in a “fraudulent scheme”, claiming $472.8M in losses (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6

Nikita Bier says he will step back from leading product for X and continue as an adviser (x.com)
2026-8-6

Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Salesforce

Meta Debuts First AI Coding Agent To Take On Anthropic and OpenAI (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 AI

eBay reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $3.13B, vs. $3.02B est., GMV up 15% to $22.4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-6 eBay

Etsy says it will cut ~220 employees, or ~12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, and reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $668.3M, vs. $649.1M est. (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6

Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at $0.10/1M input and $0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-6

Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Microsoft AI

Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 Apple

Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6 Database Oracle

Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6

10 Chilling Murder Mysteries from Ancient History (listverse.com)
2026-8-6

10 Ancient Earth Events That Sound Like Sci-Fi Plot Devices (listverse.com)
2026-8-6

Lawmaker Who Wants Data Center Pause Wins Kansas Democratic Primary (politics.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6

COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6

This 3-year Surfshark VPN deal covers unlimited devices for $84 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6 VPN

Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-6 Jack Ma Startup AI Insurance

Google Overhauls AI Leadership As DeepMind CEO Steps Aside (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses due to issues in Apple's WebKit browser engine, also affecting OnionBrowser, a Tor browser for iOS (www.404media.co)
2026-8-6 IOS Apple Browser Tor Browser

Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-6 Reddit

Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI 'Operating System' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6 AI

Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-6 AI

Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis's responsibilities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and chief scientist for Alphabet (www.axios.com)
2026-8-6 Google Alphabet

Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to “build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-6 Elon Musk Nvidia SpaceX

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