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Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-21 Google AI

Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, its first-ever US credit card, a Visa from Barclays; it offers 5% rewards for purchases directly from Samsung (www.tomsguide.com)
2026-7-21 Samsung Credit Card

New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 Drone

Longtime Web-Weirdness Site Fark Faces Ad Pinch (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21

Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21

SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21

Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21 Oracle

Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, the first major US case of its kind to settle; some authors opted out and have other ongoing lawsuits (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-21

China's New AI Model Halts New Subscriptions As Demand Swamps Capacity (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 China AI

Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21

Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term loan at 4 to 4.25 percentage points above the benchmark to refinance debt from its 2020 Blackstone acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21

JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21 AI

Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21 YouTube

X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it “one of the largest engineering projects” in the company's history (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-21 Android

Taiwan indicts former TSMC deputy manager for allegedly stealing trade secrets, in what authorities say is the first National Security Act case involving China (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-21 China Taiwan

Head of US Safety Agency Resigns (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21

Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-21 AI

AliExpress Hit With Record $625 Million Fine After Failing To Make EU-Ordered Fixes (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21

OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erd&odblac;s unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (openai.com)
2026-7-21

LG Monitors Silently Install Adware-Like App On Windows PCs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21

Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-21

Hacker Wipes Romania's Entire Land Registry Database (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 Database Hacker Romania

New HollowGraph malware uses Microsoft Graph for stealthy C2 comms (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21 Microsoft

Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-21 WordPress

Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21 China Real Estate AI

Sensor Tower: the number of new apps released in Apple's App Store doubled to ~560K in H1, vs. the ~600K added in all of 2025, as vibecoded apps flood the store (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-21 Apple Sensor

Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-7-21 AI

Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 (www.newscientist.com)
2026-7-21

Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-21 Hacker

LSU Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 Quantum

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