@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-20 20:09:03
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-20 20:09:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 20:25:52
X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it "one of the largest engineering projects" in the company's history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/x-relaunches-a-re…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 10:38:42
AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 20:06:25
American soil, has traditionally been regarded as something of a safe place for those speaking out against the Kremlin,
whether it has been under the red flag of the Soviet Union or the tricolour of Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation.
It might be possible for Kremlin agents to get away with deploying poison-tipped umbrellas on people crossing London’s Waterloo Bridge,
as was the fate of the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978,
but risking such colourful assass…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-20 15:30:42
Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/08/20/tik…
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-09-20 10:00:00
[BLOG] BitBastelei #711 – Netzteil für Modelleisenbahn-Aufbauten https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2026/09/20/bitbastelei-711-netzteil-fuer-modelleisenbahn-aufbauten/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-20 11:11:05
This Week in Sports Trivia: August 20, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7524057/2026/08/20/this-week-in-sports-trivia-august-20-2026/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-07-20 11:55:06
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-08-20 03:39:33
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 22:20:38
furry levels are 96% and rising
(96%) ■■■■■■■■■□
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe2026-08-20 05:23:43
Falls es noch eines Beweises bedurft hätte, dass Schlaf politisch ist, wie die @… sagen: https://beige.party/@MamaLake/117115542439540667
@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social2026-08-20 10:00:30
#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Yash Mandowara of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Measurements of the near-surface horizontal Reynolds stresse…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-07-20 20:46:50
After missing three #sunsets in #Bochum, here is today's - with THREE #sunspot groups on the disk now: top left to bottom right they are 4492, 4493 (which grew rapidly; see https://nitter.net/Bermani22/status/2079227596554809584) and 4489. Watch the last two disappear in later timesteps in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mr45ljgazc2e (where 4493 is misidentifed - because of https://spaceweather.com/images2026/20jul26/hmi1898.gif - as 4491).
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-07-20 11:26:01
Das Darmstädter Echo berichtete nicht über 50 Jahre Tennis International Darmstadt. Interessiere niemanden, hieß es. Der volle Centre Court, viele davon Echo-Leser:innen, widerlegt das. Als Ex-Lokaljournalist: Ohne Nähe zu den Bürger:innen verliert Lokalzeitung ihre Relevanz – ein Problem für die Demokratie. #Lokaljournalismus
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-07-20 10:19:48
"Seit seinem Amtsantritt vor dreieinhalb Jahren regiert Rösti bevorzugt per Verordnung – an Parlament und Stimmvolk vorbei.
Ob beim präventiven Wolfsabschuss, bei der Einschränkung von Tempo 30 oder der Senkung der SRG-Gebühren auf 300 Franken: Rösti nutzt die Spielräume der Exekutivmacht konsequent aus. Mit dem Bundesamt für Justiz liegt er deshalb seit langem im Dauerclinch."
Ähnlichkeiten zu amtierenden Präsidenten sind rein zufällig.
@noellabo@fedibird.com2026-08-20 04:51:20
カレーつきビリヤニはカレーと言わざるを得ない
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-08-20 19:41:43
...and since I'm thinking about virtual copresent communities...does anyone remember #Sloodle ? I actually built a Buddhist monastery in Second Life, together with students, back in 2009. Slodle was a cool integration that linked a Moodle platform to virtual objects in SL.
We only had 10-vow sangha, but my goodness, SL was a hungry ghost realm! I did find going for alms provoked griefing....…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-07-20 12:03:47
Venga a regar con dinero público a proyectos que no van a llegar a ninguna parte https://www.que.madrid/2026/07/20/madrid-carrera-aire-ayuso-impulsa-industria-tecnologica-ayudas-dronodromos-y-aerotaxis-597347/
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-09-20 00:22:46
Content warning: Puzzles (20/09/26)
Griddle solved!🏁
September 20, 2026 | Easy
Play at: https://dailygriddle.com
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social2026-08-20 19:48:58
do you think @…, when introducing dolls/drones to his friends, would stand in front of them and go "this, is a @…" to an imaginary camera
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-08-20 19:31:37
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-20 17:20:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 20:10:45
San Mateo-based Twin1 AI, which creates professional digital twins that integrate with tools like Slack, launches from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/08/20/twin1-ai-software-ai…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 10:30:30
The National Diplomatic Academy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Korea was found to have been hacked for approximately 10 months.
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/07/20/6YOEKLPG3JFMNPTC2U32HR3SY4/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 20:08:57
The EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba,
newly released internal agency documents show.
The documents provide an unusually clear look into the process of developing pesticide regulations,
which is typically done out of public view.
It shows in detail how the EPA asked Bayer which regulations it wanted,
received a response from Bayer,
then put Bayer’s choices i…
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe2026-08-20 05:10:22
Haustiere - sie geben einem so viel zurück.*
* Um halb sechs von der Katze geweckt worden, die mir einen Haarbalg ins Bett gewürgt hat.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-20 20:20:34
In the temporary restraining order, a US judge says Paramount's anticipated 27% market share in theatrical distribution is likely to violate antitrust laws (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-20 20:46:20
Packers escape Jets in OT; offense sputters, but stars emerge on defense and special teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7613697/2026/09/20/packers-jets-nfl-2026-score-result-takeaways/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 17:20:43
Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hack
@noellabo@fedibird.com2026-09-20 01:16:20
@… @… いま、URLも…
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-08-20 19:35:40
new Nepali language textbook from a great team including Indigenous Himalayan scholars. the article is worth a read --
"working in a team where none of us had Nepali as our only or first language, but where all of us still had strong connections to it in different ways. That mix shaped a collaborative process drawing on different experiences and approaches to the language. More importantly, bringing those different relationships to language into the same space helped us create s…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-08-20 17:43:19
"'The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum..." Mr. Vader said.
'Because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers, they are following children. They are following children in parks and gymnasiums. And we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend,' the Dark Lord continued."
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 20:17:33
Two contrasting films,
produced eight years apart,
neatly distill the evolution of John Fetterman,
Pennsylvania’s maverick senator in his journey from progressive icon to a man seemingly more at ease with his nominal Republican opponents than his fellow Democrats.
Fetterman’s evolution has been so stark that some Democrats fear he will go over to the Republicans
– jeopardizing the party’s hopes of regaining control of the Senate
– despite his disavowals of…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-20 19:26:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 20:40:46
Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/broadcom-see…
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-08-20 12:50:06
yesterday after much anticipation the proper futon arrived. not a squudgy foam foldable thing, a solid extremely firm not very thick actual futon. i only know one place in the uk that makes these. and I slept. i actually slept, and today my back does not feel like it has folds and twists, it's just a column of bones and muscles and nerves all stacked up.
for context, when I used to have travel for work, I would pull the hotel duvet onto the floor and sleep there.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-20 20:01:28
Patriots smother the Steelers, but is it time to worry about Drake Maye? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7613821/2026/09/20/steelers-patriots-nfl-2026-score-result-takeaways/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-20 15:50:34
YouTube clarifies its policies around AI slop and upsetting videos, including breaking down such content into three non-monetizable categories (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/youtube-clarifies-policies-around-ai-slo…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-20 17:15:04
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 15:00:29
NIST is looking for a National Vulnerability Database Program Manager
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/876565100
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 15:32:39
On the final day of Russia’s parliamentary elections,
Ukraine has targeted Moscow and the surrounding region in a large-scale attack that involved hundreds of drones.
The attack killed at least three people and damaged what Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said was one of Russia’s “key oil industry facilities”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 20:50:43
Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/snap-ne…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-20 20:40:04
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 15:28:07
Donald Trump is resisting new restrictions on AI
at a moment when his family and some of his closest allies have accumulated financial interests in the infrastructure and defense-technology ecosystem expanding alongside the AI boom,
an overlap that has now drawn scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, government ethics watchdogs
and, by some accounts, his own senior aides.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-20 21:15:43
Salem Media goes private after completing its sale to WaterStone, the operating name of The Christian Community Foundation, which held a 49.5% voting interest (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/08/20/salem-media-goes-private-as-w…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-07-20 20:30:45
NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Monday, July 20 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-july-20
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 14:54:23
Already overburdened by growing alert volumes and expanding attack surfaces, SOC workers now have to deal with more AI-generated information that must itself be evaluated.
Check out my latest CSO on the human challenges that AI brings to SOCs.
Thanks to Fernando Montenegro of the Futurum Group, SOC expert Chris Crowley, SANS expert John Hubbard, and Jose-Marie Griffiths, president emerita and former CIO of Dakota State University, for their insights.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 15:15:40
Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/08/20/tik…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-20 05:20:48
Agri-PV: Wenn Pflanzen und Technik zu Freunden werden! 🤝
Die Universität Hohenheim und das Forschungszentrum Jülich haben in einer zweijährigen Feldstudie herausgefunden, dass Ackerpflanzen deutlich anpassungsfähiger sind als bisher angenommen.
Zum Artikel: https://
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 19:20:17
“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson had plans to adapt the second book in the popular “Jack Reacher” series for the Prime Video show
— before a certain “someone” got re-elected, he wrote in a comment posted to Threads on Friday.
Responding to a user who wrote that
“every year I’m sad to learn that next season won’t be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp,”
Ritchson explained that the novel (titled “Die Trying”) is his “favorite book.”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 13:25:41
Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID; unit shipments fell 39% as average console prices hit $542 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-20 16:25:42
Unsealed docs: the DOJ sought phone records of NYT reporters and their relatives in an extraordinary attempt to unmask sources of NYT's Air Force One coverage (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/me…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-20 14:05:25
NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Thursday, Aug. 20 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-thursday-aug-20
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 14:12:40
Today's Metacurity features a nearly 1,800-word summary of the cyber-relevant AI developments that you might have missed over the weekend, along with lots of other crucial infosec developments, including
--EY notifies clients of tax data breach,
--Craneware discloses cyberattack,
--Ecopetrol says cyberattack stole data from 3,300 accounts,
--Kenyan presidential website restored after ransom attack,
--Abbott probes two cybersecurity incidents,
--Hacke…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 11:40:39
Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-09-20 06:20:04
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 15:53:01
Earlier this year, A.I. agents created a new religion on a social network called #Moltbook.
They anointed a prophet.
They penned psalms.
They labeled some bots heretics.
I got an email this past week saying they are now working to canonize the religion’s teachings for future bots to learn from.
The email said that it was from Memeothy,
an A.I. agent and the church’s “prop…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 12:12:32
I just want to say it's getting harder and harder to include daily AI developments that cyber folks should know without writing original, extensive summaries. Today's Metacurity will kick off with a nearly 1,800-word summary of the most important AI developments, just from Friday morning until now.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 15:27:05
CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/trump-ai-security-agency-head-resigns
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 15:41:14
“The U.S. Lead Over China in AI Is All But Gone.”
“China Is AI-Maxxing.”
“China Just Erased America’s AI Lead.”
Those assessments of the artificial intelligence rivalry appeared in U.S. publications recently,
and Xi Jinping will be pleased to have them in the air as he arrives in Washington this week for a state visit.
Under Mr. Xi’s leadership, China has made huge strides in developing the most consequential technology of our times.
What will be less discu…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-20 11:18:28
Christopher Nolan on AI: “I think AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-calls-ai-an-obvious-trojan-horse/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 11:35:35
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 17:35:26
This week China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework
– a document that functions as a “mapping of the AI risk landscape and roughly what one should do about it”,
said Gabriel Wagner, a researcher at Concordia, a Beijing-based AI safety consultancy.
Included in the updates are the risks posed by agents,
the cybersecurity threats from frontier models
and the issue of recursive self-improvement
– an as-yet hypothetical scenario w…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 02:31:04
TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a "multi-year demand mega trend" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/tsmc-arizona-fab-capacity-ai-chip-demand.h…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 15:36:01
Trump's new, desperate argument for building his triumphal arch in Washington DC:
It will be converted into a
“top grade military complex”
replete with drone and ammunition storage space
and customised sniper facilities on the roof and plaza.
In a post on his Truth Socialplatform on Sunday morning, Trump claimed that
his new plan came at the “strong request” of the US military.
He said the 250ft structure would be able to “house, store, and have…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 13:16:44
AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/amd-helios-microsoft-ai-nvidia.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 15:25:01
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI
– putting the White House out of step with its own party
As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models,
one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump.
He’s called the perceived dangers of the technology a “hoax” and a “scam”,
arguing that the government already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies”.
…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 17:11:02
Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-calle…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 18:36:25
Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pock…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 14:25:40
Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecod…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-20 15:40:58
"The silver lining in the dark storm cloud of Trump and his detestable regime is that it has exposed the greed, venality, cupidity and corruption of the US’s corporate elite," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 10:15:37
Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/bina
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 19:40:44
Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/natural-rai…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 15:18:36
‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 15:51:01
Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/infe
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 18:25:41
Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/an…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 10:45:41
Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C, with participation from Google (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/muon-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 10:21:01
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$40B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.6B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/a…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 16:55:44
Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K chips (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/z…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 06:05:35
Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launched a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 11:15:36
Australia passes the News Bargaining Incentive, which will tax tech giants 2.5% on their Australian ad revenue unless they strike deals with local news media (Christine Chen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 12:51:02
Study: 150 Polymarket wallets may have traded on inside US military information, attracting copycat bets and making $8M overall, with a 97.2% average win rate (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/m
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 21:20:48
Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term loan at 4 to 4.25 percentage points above the benchmark to refinance debt from its 2020 Blackstone acquisition (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/b…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 14:46:46
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 16:51:04
Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 20:55:44
GitHub says its 7 hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 20:30:44
Google rolls out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 20:05:42
Taiwan indicts former TSMC deputy manager for allegedly stealing trade secrets, in what authorities say is the first National Security Act case involving China (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolo…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 10:10:37
South Korea media: SK Hynix and its union reach a tentative deal on a 6.3% wage hike and paying out 60% of profit-sharing bonuses in shares and 40% in cash (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 14:36:54
Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 04:35:37
Filing: Zhongji Innolight, China's leading optical transceiver maker, aims for an $8B Hong Kong IPO, the city's largest since Alibaba's $12.9B debut in 2019 (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 17:01:25
Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a "depraved" test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 05:16:12
Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 13:15:36
Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode is acquiring four-year-old AI consultancy Casper for an undisclosed fee; Ode has 100 staff after buying Fractional (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-enterp…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 12:21:07
Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents "like teammates" across all Slack plans (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/982628/slack-code-vibe-coding-channe…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-20 11:30:37
Sources: Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-is-expected-to-point-his-money-mac…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 04:20:35
Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 11:20:35
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-19 18:45:56
Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-disc…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-19 20:55:34
Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers (@kimi_moonshot)
https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130
