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AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Robot Shenzhen

ATF confirms “major incident” after recent Qilin breach claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

CISA orders feds to patch Citrix NetScaler RCE flaw by Saturday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

Get a year of Surfshark One+ and Incogni for $95 (reg. $250.20) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

Carhartt data breach exposes information of 12.9 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: Adam Mosseri met with state AG representatives roughly a month ago, saying Meta would appeal any adverse verdict but was willing to make changes (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27

Aussie 'Raygun' breakdancer mocked for her infamous Paris Olympics performance says 'it was not as bad as I thought' after watching it for first time (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27 Paris

Irish man is arrested over viral video where Jewish woman was warned she'd 'get a bullet in her head' after 'anti-Semitic rant' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27

Italy is fighting an invasive species of crab - with tens of thousands of killer octopuses (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27 Italy

Berlin police are struggling to find enough German-speaking recruits amid surge in migrant applications (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27 Germany Immigration

Russian commander killed and wife fights for life 'with legs blown off' in St Petersburg car bombing (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27 Russia

Putin tells Britain to reverse 'hostile line' on Ukraine or Russia could hit UK military targets (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27 Russia Putin U.K. Ukraine

LIVENepal flood LIVE: Fears of second tsunami after devastating flood sparked by glacier collapse as China warns landslide dam with 'high risk of breaching' has formed in river (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-27 China

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' “vested interest” was misleading states to attack prediction markets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-27 Trump Republican

Meta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Facebook Instagram

Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' “tacit knowledge” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-27 AI

The first German genocide the West chose to forget (www.rt.com)
2026-8-27 Germany

Nepal landslide disaster: What triggered the cataclysm that killed hundreds (VIDEOS, PHOTOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-27 Nepal

X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl (variety.com)
2026-8-27

Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including new interactive systems that let player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media (www.dazeddigital.com)
2026-8-27

YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-27 YouTube

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is set to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$6.20, or near the midpoint of its marketed range, raising $1.73B and valuing it at ~$26.5B (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 Hong Kong IPO Singapore

10 Super Unsettling Historical Facts We Wish Were False (listverse.com)
2026-8-27

Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-27

UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (www.ft.com)
2026-8-27 AI

A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27 France

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (www.ft.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27

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