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10 Bizarre Alternative Currencies That Actually Worked (listverse.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: Alibaba is nearing a deal to sell its Lingxi Games to PE firm Trustar Capital at a potential $1.5B+ valuation, as Alibaba continues its reorganization (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Alibaba

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “every capability is a plugin” that can be swapped out (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-14

Data analyst sent to prison for stealing data, extorting employer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (www.ft.com)
2026-8-14 JPMorgan

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-14 Google

US-China, copper, and a burial dispute: What is at stake in Zambia's election? (www.rt.com)
2026-8-14 China

RT visits Belgorod hospital treating children wounded in Ukrainian strikes (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-14 Ukraine

US lost quarter of its Reaper drones in Iran war – WaPo (www.rt.com)
2026-8-14 Drone Iran

Defense argues Charlie Kirk murder suspect ineligible for death penalty (www.rt.com)
2026-8-14

Ukraine blocking prisoner swaps with Russia – human rights commissioner (www.rt.com)
2026-8-14 Russia Ukraine

Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B (www.afr.com)
2026-8-14 AI

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks (z.ai)
2026-8-14 AI

Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14

A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (www.cnn.com)
2026-8-14

The State of Americans' Auto Debt (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-14 U.S.

A next step for Australia in Southeast Asia: help nations communicate what's happening at sea (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-14 Australia Asia Southeast Asia

UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14

Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14 China Alibaba AI Apple

The White House announces new tariffs on drones and components, including a 100% levy on “particularly sensitive” models, aiming to cut reliance on Chinese tech (www.ft.com)
2026-8-14 China Drone

SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun says the company raised prices following negotiations with customers in Q1, and that it will charge more for wafers processed in Q3 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14

This Strange Red Dot May Be the First Known “Black Hole Star” (www.universal-sci.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into prediction markets' “mention markets”, prompting Kalshi to remove bets on word choices from sports-related offerings (www.npr.org)
2026-8-14 CFTC

Apple sends new ‘Threat Notification' alerts over mercenary spyware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 Apple

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Europe Uber AI

A profile of Amy Kremer, a pro-Trump activist who helped organize the January 6 rally and currently chairs the grassroots anti-data center group Humans First (www.transformernews.ai)
2026-8-14 Trump

Australia is not ready for an economic blockade of Taiwan (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-14 Australia Taiwan

Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack (www.wired.com)
2026-8-14

Russia's Pacific submarine fleet could tip the scales in China's favour (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-14 Russia China

Spain rejects Morocco's claim to sovereignty over enclaves (www.rt.com)
2026-8-14 Spain

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