Tech

Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Microsoft

In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% in Q2, per Sensor Tower (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18 Apple Sensor

Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch (www.politico.com)
2026-8-18 AI

'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens (apnews.com)
2026-8-18 Brazil

Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-18 China Google Manufacturing

A video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence (www.macrumors.com)
2026-8-18 Intelligence

Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it “being hunted” (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-18

Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas (x.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More US States (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Apple

Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (www.404media.co)
2026-8-18 California Child Abuse

Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-18 Mexico

BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-18 U.S.

Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (www.axios.com)
2026-8-18 IPO JPMorgan Wall Street

Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Social Media

Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18

Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Hacker

10 Sinister & Shadowy Ghosts Haunting the Atlantic Coast (listverse.com)
2026-8-18

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $7B+; founded in 2023, OpenRouter reportedly had a $1.3B valuation in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-18 Africa

US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Nvidia

Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (cursor.com)
2026-8-18 GitHub

Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Amazon AI

Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

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