Tech

SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and an operating loss of $1.26B from its AI business, compared with a $2.39B estimate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5 AI SpaceX

Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Microsoft

Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted “illegal porn in a public chat” to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into “overreacting” (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-5 Apple

Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (abcnews.com)
2026-8-5 Iran

This $70 lifetime Headway offer makes learning fit your schedule (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5

77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5

New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5

Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Trump Wall Street

Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (mistral.ai)
2026-8-5

Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (www.axios.com)
2026-8-5 AI

Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Trump China Ban

Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for” (www.404media.co)
2026-8-5 Microsoft AI Budget

Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Apple

Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, an ex-California Supreme Court justice and a special assistant in Obama's WH, as its first global affairs chief (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-5 California

Sandisk and SK Hynix announce the High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) open specification that enables up to 512GB memory modules with 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s bandwidth (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-8-5

Sources: the US is preparing to set a price floor and impose tariffs on polysilicon, a material critical to chips, later this month, in a bid to counter China (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-5 China

The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-5

Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5 Apple

Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-5

Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-5

Ambrook, which offers accounting software, raised a $30M Series B led by Lachy Groom as it expands beyond farming into trucking, construction, and real estate (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-8-5

Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (blogs.nvidia.com)
2026-8-5 Nvidia

Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5

New Jersey files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging it uses its dominance to impose low pay and poor conditions on independent delivery drivers (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-5 Amazon

Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-5 AI

A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (www.ft.com)
2026-8-5 AI World Bank

Varonis Agent IBAC keeps AI agents within their intended boundaries (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-5 AI

Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases (futurism.com)
2026-8-5

Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-4 AI

Edit, sign, convert, and organize PDFs with one Mac app for just $80 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-4

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