Tech

An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-17 Hong Kong IPO Singapore

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-17 China Startup AI

Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Amazon

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI Ford

A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Linux

Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (simonwillison.net)
2026-8-17

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Intel Startup AI Goldman

Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal “arbitrary” (cointelegraph.com)
2026-8-17

Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality (daringfireball.net)
2026-8-17

Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes (slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Hong Kong AI Singapore

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Linux Kernel 7.2 Has Been Officially Released with Many New Features (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Linux

SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 Mathematics

Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

China's Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 China

Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-17 France Tax

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Could a Disc-Free PlayStation Actually Lower Game Prices? (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

Large-scale DDoS attacks disrupted Threema secure messaging service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

New AmnesiaStealer macOS malware hijacks browser sessions via remote control (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17 Browser

Get access to ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini for just $69.97 today (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Bluesky's Active User Base Shrinks 52% Over 18 Months, But Its Protocol is Spreading (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

Disneyland Announces Star Wars/Fortnite Collaboration, 'Avatar' Attraction, and a Newer Tomorrowland (games.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-17 AI

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