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As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 Mexico Taiwan

As New York Finalizes New Social Media Rules, US Senate Considers Nationwide 'SCREEN' Act (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Social Media New York Senate

A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-2 AI Toronto

Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 AI Apple

LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (fintech.global)
2026-8-2

Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-2 Malaysia

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 China AI Robot

How 'Situational Awareness' Hedge Fund Dropped 67% in AI Stock Rout (slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 AI Hedge Fund

An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-2 Iran Dubai

Recovery Seeds Reportedly Breached for Coldcard Hardware Bitcoin Wallets, $75M Taken (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Bitcoin

Is Big Tech's AI Gamble Starting to Look Riskier? (slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 AI

150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers 'Hardship Fund' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 NASA

Apple's Stock Drops Nearly 10%. How Will It Respond to Memory Shortage? (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Apple

US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-8-2

Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates ~$70M stolen (www.coindesk.com)
2026-8-2 Bitcoin

Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths”; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-2 Trump

Hamburg Is Replacing a Bridge In One Huge Piece (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2

Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-2

A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-2 AI

New GitHub, PyPI Policies Hope to Boost Supply Chain Security (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 GitHub

Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-2

Used EV Prices are Now Going Up in America (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 U.S.

Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-2 Android Google

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
2026-8-2 Quantum Mathematics

This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (www.wired.com)
2026-8-1

Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Drone

At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-1 China AI

Drifting SpaceX Rocket Heading For Accidental Collision With the Moon (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 SpaceX

Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-1 Trump AI Oracle

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