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Police are investigating a murder-suicide in what appears to be the first documented murder involving someone who engaged extensively with an AI chatbot (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-29 AI chatbot

Elon Musk files a motion to dismiss a US SEC suit over his 2022 Twitter stake disclosure, calling allegations that he cheated investors a government overreach (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-29 Twitter Elon Musk

Court filing: the UK sought broad access to Apple user data, including bulk iCloud interception beyond ADP, and hasn't dropped the mandate as the US claimed (t.co)
2025-8-29 Apple

Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Robot

Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-29 Database AI

Amtrak's New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Marvell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $2.01B, in line with estimates, and forecasts Q3 revenue at $2.06B, below $2.11B est.; MRVL drops 11%+ after hours (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-29

Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Microsoft AI

While facial recognition tech remains unregulated at the US federal level, 23 states have passed or expanded laws to restrict mass scraping of biometric data (www.npr.org)
2025-8-29 Facial Recognition

Microsoft Expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Cheaper Game Pass Tiers (games.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Microsoft Xbox

Autodesk reports Q2 revenue up 17% to $1.76B, vs. $1.73B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and raises its annual forecasts; ADSK jumps 10%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-29

Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

The CFTC says non-US crypto exchanges have a path to bringing on US users, in an advisory clarifying how they can register as so-called foreign boards of trade (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-29 CFTC

Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29 Google

FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Microsoft's Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Microsoft Samsung AI

Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 33% YoY to $876.4M, above $837M est., GMV up 43% to $10.4B, and EPS of $0.20, above $0.12 est.; AFRM jumps 13%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-29 4Q

Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Microsoft

Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Japan

Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-29

Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-29 AI

Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and says it plans to ship $20B of AI servers in its fiscal 2026, double what it sold last year (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-29 AI

US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Blockchain

xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-29 GitHub

In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased (www.axios.com)
2025-8-29 Google Republican

TransUnion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers' Personal Information (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29 Korea

Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51% (t.co)
2025-8-29 Intel

Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B from the US government on Wednesday evening; the White House says the deal is still “being ironed out” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-29 Intel

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