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Security44 stories
- Ten simulated bots walked past 65.3% of the popular sites DataDome tested
- Forescout's 47,700-segment census finds OT isolated in 13% of the segments that carry it
- EvilTokens rented an AI-powered inbox-scanning tool and a device-code MFA bypass for a $1,500 fee plus $500 a month
- NCSC's Chismon puts the limit on agentic cyber defence at the damage a wrong action does
- Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-93952 in VeloCloud Orchestrators that authenticate Edges by certificate
- Check Point patches a Security Management zero-day it saw exploited on July 23
- ToolShell's author publishes a working code-execution exploit for SharePoint's CVE-2026-65660
- Four in ten CISOs surveyed by Gartner logged a deepfaked voice call in the past year
- CLOSEDQUORUM puts its next action to a vote of four commercial LLM providers
- Naceri's BigDiskBuster stops Defender updating for as long as it runs
- EU auditors find the cooperation between national CSIRTs and EU-CyCLONe still undefined
- WordPress patched a comment flaw that uses an admin's session to plant a web shell
Build130 stories
- Foundry offers Provisioned Throughput for two of the three GPT-6 models
- CloudWatch Omni swaps threshold tuning for availability and latency targets you declare
- OpenAI wrote research pace out of its new math advisory group's remit
- Jev turns a catalogue ID from a prompt constraint into part of the decision domain
- A departed employee's GitHub OAuth token cloned about 170 CrowdSec repositories in nine minutes
- JetBrains Air Governance extends cost and visibility tracking across AI providers
- Xiaomi priced six days of reinforcement learning at $3.47 million
Invest119 stories
- Snorkel sells about a tenth of itself for $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation
- Short covering supplied 39% of the buying that took Bitcoin to $87,395
- DoorDash pays $83 million to stop arguing over how New York counts logged-in time
- Ande raises $52 million to route client dinners through finance's approval chain
- Microsoft puts a Majorana 2 machine where DARPA can design its own tests
- Goldman's $400 million extension of Cyera's Series G buys about 3.3% at June's price
- a16z's academy commits $840,000 per founding student before anyone pays tuition
- Sol's 27-cent benchmark task undercuts Opus 5 by more than eleven times
- Record refining margins have pushed the US diesel average to $6.53 a gallon
- DeepSeek and Moonshot get speaking slots at the UN Security Council's AI session
- Canada's Big Six collapse 15 bilateral links into one tokenized deposit rail
- Kalshi's margin filing trades full collateral for a 24-hour close-out window
- Cognex adds a $106 million employee package to its $500 million cash price for RealSense
- Animoca shelves a reverse merger that implied it was worth 19 times Currenc
- Baselayer stakes a $35 million Series A on issuing credentials to one-task AI agents
- A Treasury buyback gets credit for crypto's entire $740 billion rebound
- KPMG answers rivals' multi-billion AI plans with a reporting line
- An AI agent books and pays for a coffee tasting on a live Danske Bank card
- Existing holders take 73% of the stock on offer in Oura's $2.2 billion IPO
- Balderton takes up to 90% of Spott's $21 million Series A
- Emergence pays about six times revenue for cash-flow-positive AI cloud Verda
- The ECB asks Brussels to delete MiCA's 60% bank-deposit floor for stablecoin reserves
- Binance's 97.3% Iran cleanup figure starts from a $4.19 million base
- Alibaba pulls its V900 chip forward two quarters to the first quarter of 2027
- Meta shares surge more than 20% after AI assistant Muse debuts
- Nvidia budgets zero China data centre sales into its $108 billion quarter
Product97 stories
- Microsoft hands Xbox's biggest franchises to three other publishers it owns
- Trump's "super intelligence" rename takes over a term the field reserves for a hypothetical system
- ShinyHunters reportedly pivoted from a recruiting server to FBI agent records
- Discord estimates the age of more than 90% of users from account signals alone
- Snorkel books a $375m run rate a year after switching from tooling to finished datasets
- Alibaba dates mass production of its most powerful AI chip to the first quarter of 2027
- Price cuts minutes apart send agent routing back to the spreadsheet
- Qualcomm unveils two new 2nm chips: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6
- Motorola builds its Snapdragon Extreme flagship around a 200MP periscope camera
- OpenAI halves the API price of Sol and Luna against GPT-5.6's promotional rates
- Adobe's free Premiere for Android puts the paywall on AI generations and cloud storage
- Box measured Claude Opus 5.5 using a third of the tokens Opus 5 needed
- TypeSafe ships a model that answers only with a decision and a confidence number
- Beats builds the 360 around parts the owner can swap out
- Beats 360 sells sweat resistance and replaceable earcups for $350
- Apple wires a 600-capacity Battersea stage into its own broadcast control room
- Secret Service confiscated a Politico reporter's White House pass at the gate
Leadership45 stories
Science113 stories
- Circle will pay Binance a monthly fee on USDC held in its smart contract wallet
- An MIT-licensed Xiaomi model scores 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index
- OpenAI measures its 50% GPT-6 price cut against the previous generation's promotional rate
- Injected carbon nitride particles evoked cortical light responses in blind mice
- Fossil vomit pellets in a Norwegian delta hold shells that needed open-ocean salt
- Lassen's fire amoeba divides at 63 C, three degrees above the old eukaryote ceiling
- One-sided photon interactions pushed a light beam upstream through a quantum fluid of light
- Hattusha yields new cuneiform fragment bearing part of Kadesh treaty's refugee clause
- Impact modeling narrows the RNA World's onset to a 100-million-year window
- A fresh 222-meter lunar crater gives impact modelers a sample of one
- Glacier shrinkage is loosening mountain slopes far beyond the Himalayas, researchers tell Live Science