Tech

Moderna-Merck Vaccine Cuts Recurrence And Spread of Melanoma, Raises New Treatment Hope (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23

A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-23 China AI

Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-23

Is AI Really to Blame for High Unemployment Among Recent Graduates? What Economists Say (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 AI Unemployment

Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 Android IOS Firefox VPN

New York Dethrones San Francisco Bay Area As Largest Tech Talent Market (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-23 San Francisco New York

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction (www.wired.com)
2026-8-23 Energy

Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (wccftech.com)
2026-8-23 AI

Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-23 Android

Named Pipes Under Attack: Securing Windows Interprocess Communication (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-23

Take your Claude skills to the next level for $15 in this course deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-23

Over 1 Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 LinkedIn AI

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Robot

'Off the Charts' El Nino Is Already the Strongest Since Records Began (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22

With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-8-22 AI

Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-22 AI Battery

OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-22

China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 China Linux Europe

Following abandoned IPO attempts in NYC and London, Shein is struggling to grow as it nears a Hong Kong listing at a fraction of its peak valuation of $100B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-22 Hong Kong IPO London

How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-22

Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-22 IPO

Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs (fortune.com)
2026-8-22 Amazon

Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation (betakit.com)
2026-8-22 Canada

OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (www.politico.com)
2026-8-22 AI California

Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22

Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-22 Apple

Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-22 Energy Nvidia

Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-8-22 Apple

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-22

Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-22 AI Medicare

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