Tech

China's ‘robot Olympics' sees humanoids from 16 nations compete in table tennis, football, track (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-15 China Robot

African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Continent's True Size (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Africa

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2025-8-15 Australia Equity

Foxconn's AI server business surged 60%+ YoY in Q2, surpassing revenue from Apple-related products for the first time, and is projected to grow 170% YoY in Q3 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-15 AI Apple

Russian Hackers Seized Control of Norwegian Dam, Spy Chief Says (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Russia Norway

Sen. Josh Hawley calls for a congressional probe into Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids; Sen. Marsha Blackburn backs a probe (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-15 AI

Trump Administration Considers Stake In Intel (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Trump Intel

Plex Users Urged To Update Media Server After Security Flaw Exposed (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill sues Roblox, alleging among other things that it continues to facilitate CSAM distribution and the sexual exploitation of children (variety.com)
2025-8-15

Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek's Next-Gen R2 Model (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

Impoverished Streaming Services Are Driving Viewers Back to Piracy (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Google Releases Pint-Size Gemma Open AI Model (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Google AI

Source: AI coding startup Cognition raised nearly $500M led by Founders Fund, bringing its valuation to $9.8B, more than double the level earlier this year (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-15 Startup AI

Apple Returns Blood Oxygen Monitoring to the Latest Apple Watches (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 Apple

PayPal No Longer Available for Steam Purchases Outside Major Currency Zones (slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the cloud services company between $4B and $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-15 IPO

SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-15

Over $300 million in cybercrime crypto seized in anti-fraud effort (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-15

New Type of Supernova Detected as Black Hole Causes Star To Explode (science.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks Deadlocked as Negotiations Draw To a Close (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Sources: the Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government potentially take a stake in the company; INTC jumps 6%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-15 Trump Intel

Ex-PlayStation Boss Says Game Subscription Turns Developers Into 'Wage Slaves' (games.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including EU's DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, and the US Take It Down Act (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15

Sources: chip startup Rivos, which plans to release a GPU for inference as early as 2026, is seeking to raise between $400M and $500M at a $2B+ valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-15 Startup

The Head of ChatGPT Won't Rule Out Adding Ads (slashdot.org)
2025-8-15

Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (www.wired.com)
2025-8-15 Google AI

AdGuard VPN is 90% off MSRP while codes last in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-15 VPN

Crypto24 ransomware hits large orgs with custom EDR evasion tool (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-15

Meta's AI Rules Have Let Bots Hold 'Sensual' Chats With Kids, Offer False Medical Info (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-15 AI

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