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150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers 'Hardship Fund' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 NASA

Apple's Stock Drops Nearly 10%. How Will It Respond to Memory Shortage? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Apple

US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-8-2

Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates ~$70M stolen (www.coindesk.com)
2026-8-2 Bitcoin

Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths”; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-2 Trump

Hamburg Is Replacing a Bridge In One Huge Piece (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2

Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-2

A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-2 AI

New GitHub, PyPI Policies Hope to Boost Supply Chain Security (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 GitHub

Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-2

Used EV Prices are Now Going Up in America (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 U.S.

Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Android Google

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
2026-8-2 Quantum Mathematics

This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (www.wired.com)
2026-8-1

Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Drone

At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-1 China AI

Drifting SpaceX Rocket Heading For Accidental Collision With the Moon (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 SpaceX

Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-1 Trump AI Oracle

Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures (betakit.com)
2026-8-1 Battery Toronto Insurance

Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (fortune.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (www.crn.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (www.axios.com)
2026-8-1 CFTC

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1 chatbot

OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 AI

Webinar: The state of shadow AI in 2026 (and how attackers are taking advantage) (pushsecurity.com)
2026-8-1 AI

A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA (arstechnica.com)
2026-8-1 Reddit

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1 India Mobile Sensor

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