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Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group (krebsonsecurity.com)
26 days ago Australia

AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago AI

Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago Robot Shenzhen

ATF confirms “major incident” after recent Qilin breach claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago

CISA orders feds to patch Citrix NetScaler RCE flaw by Saturday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago

Get a year of Surfshark One+ and Incogni for $95 (reg. $250.20) (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago

Carhartt data breach exposes information of 12.9 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
26 days ago

Sources: Adam Mosseri met with state AG representatives roughly a month ago, saying Meta would appeal any adverse verdict but was willing to make changes (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' “vested interest” was misleading states to attack prediction markets (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago Trump Republican

Meta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago Facebook Instagram

Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' “tacit knowledge” (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago AI

X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl (variety.com)
26 days ago

Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including new interactive systems that let player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media (www.dazeddigital.com)
26 days ago

YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago YouTube

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is set to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$6.20, or near the midpoint of its marketed range, raising $1.73B and valuing it at ~$26.5B (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago Hong Kong IPO Singapore

10 Super Unsettling Historical Facts We Wish Were False (listverse.com)
26 days ago

Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (www.anthropic.com)
26 days ago

UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (www.ft.com)
26 days ago AI

A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (www.washingtonpost.com)
26 days ago AI

Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds (science.slashdot.org)
26 days ago France

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (www.ft.com)
26 days ago

Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago

Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (www.seroundtable.com)
26 days ago Google AI

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (www.cnbc.com)
26 days ago India AI

Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (www.techdirt.com)
26 days ago

Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China AI Singapore Nvidia Logistics

Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (www.platformer.news)
26 days ago

Filing: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (www.businessinsider.com)
26 days ago Nvidia Equity

Arturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (www.theguardian.com)
26 days ago

Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development (hardware.slashdot.org)
26 days ago AI Bill Gates

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