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The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

How America's Addiction to War led to Self-Harm (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-8 U.S.

Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-5-8 YouTube Instagram

Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

Filings: Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning a dual IPO on Shanghai's STAR Board and in Hong Kong; Baidu holds a 58% stake in Kunlunxin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8 Hong Kong IPO AI Shanghai

Victory Day: 81st anniversary of defeat of Nazi Germany commemorated worldwide (www.rt.com)
2026-5-8 Germany

Sources: SK Hynix's big customers have been proposing a range of offers to secure memory chip supplies, including investing in dedicated chip production lines (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-8

Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Korea Retail Fintech

Australia's grey-zone problem is a thinking gap, not a capability gap (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-8 Australia

Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters (krebsonsecurity.com)
2026-5-8

Sony reports 1.5M PS5 unit sales in Q4, down 46% YoY, and forecasts annual sales at its gaming business to fall 6% YoY to $1.69B, amid memory chip price surge (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-8 4Q Sony

War has a Huge Carbon Impact: Why Aren't We Measuring It? (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-8

The Folly of the US-Israeli Myth of a Quick Iranian Collapse (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-8 Israel Iran

Export bans: Wrong way, go back (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-8

Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8

Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

Israeli strikes devastate Lebanese cities despite ceasefire (VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-5-8 Israel Lebanon

Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-8 AI

The protraction trap: why a regional conflict could be hard to end (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-8

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (www.axios.com)
2026-5-8

A US judge blocks DOGE's termination of $100M in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, saying ChatGPT prompts used to decide the cuts were ill-defined (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

10 Insane Covert Operations from WWII (listverse.com)
2026-5-8

10 Fascinating Explanations for Cosmic Mysteries (listverse.com)
2026-5-8

Prices of Used EVs Spike, from already Lofty Levels, as Gasoline Prices Spike. But Electricity Prices also Soared (wolfstreet.com)
2026-5-8

Antarctic diplomacy's “back to basics” test (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-8

China's grey-zone fleet is eroding Taiwan's control at sea (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-8 China Taiwan

Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-8 AI Firefox Mozilla

Sources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-8 AI

Budget week puts Australia's aid ambitions on the line (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-8 Australia Budget

MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.8B, vs. $8.4B est., and net income down 16% to $417M, vs. $433M est.; MELI drops 5%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

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