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Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China (fortune.com)
2026-8-21 China Nvidia

Watching TikTok Videos and Instagram Reels Deactivates the Brain's Cognitive Control Network (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 Instagram

Email: Apple Music tells industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will be visibly labeled on the service (www.billboard.com)
2026-8-21 AI Apple

Ukrainian Publishers Call For Support After Russian Attacks Destroy 10 Million Books (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 Russia Ukraine

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 (github.blog)
2026-8-21 GitHub

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 AI

Google rolls out an embeddable “Preferred Sources” button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (www.searchenginejournal.com)
2026-8-21 Android NLP Google

San Mateo-based Twin1 AI, which creates professional digital twins that integrate with tools like Slack, launches from stealth with a $20M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-8-21 AI Slack

Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers (politics.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-21 Nvidia

Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-8-21

Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 AI Mathematics

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 Brazil

Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21 IPO SpaceX

This lifetime Babbel offer puts 14 languages at your fingertips (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21

YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 YouTube Netflix

Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year requiring enterprises to retain data for 30 days, with an option to do so on their own cloud infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21

Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years (blog.google)
2026-8-21 Google

Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M (gamesbeat.com)
2026-8-21 AI

Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-21 China Nvidia

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-21

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 AI

The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-21 China Robot

FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21

Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-21 Japan AI

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 (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-21 Europe U.S. Africa Latin America

A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants sought assurances that their info would be removed (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-21 Google

Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-21 WordPress

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