Tech

Union Fights Microsoft Over Layoffs at Game Studios (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-19 Microsoft Layoffs

The 'Death of the Stick Shift' is Almost Here for Americans (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-19 U.S.

Microsoft warns of surge in ACR Stealer attacks on customers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-19 Microsoft

The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the “unaccountable” buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-19

The Future of Age Verification: Your Face Never Leaves Your Device (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-18

This $79.99 Mac app replaces a whole stack of PDF tools (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-18

Google-Backed Satellites For Wildfire Detection Launch As Smoke Chokes US, Canada (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-18 Google Canada

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-18 Microsoft

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-18

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (www.aisi.gov.uk)
2026-7-18

SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-18 eBay

Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (fintech.global)
2026-7-18 AI

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-18 China AI

London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M (www.securityweek.com)
2026-7-18 Equity London

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-7-18 Startup AI

Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-18 China AI Tencent

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-18 Startup AI

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-18 Japan AI Robot Sony Nvidia

Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers (slashdot.org)
2026-7-18 Australia AI

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (x.com)
2026-7-18

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-18 China Robot

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-18 Startup AI

Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing ByteDance's transfer of control of US operations to TikTok USDS (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-18

Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-18 AI

Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-18 Trump AI

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-18 Trump

Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit (slashdot.org)
2026-7-18 China AI

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-18

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-18

Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-18

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