Tech

Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest $3B+ over five years to expand its global R&D network, aiming to increase its experiment capacity by 50%+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: stablecoin payments company RedotPay delays plans for a US IPO to 2027 or later, as it seeks regulatory approvals and deals with legal issues (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 IPO

RingCentral data breach exposed info of 1.6 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Get 6 Claude & ChatGPT project management courses for just $20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14

10 Bizarre Alternative Currencies That Actually Worked (listverse.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: Alibaba is nearing a deal to sell its Lingxi Games to PE firm Trustar Capital at a potential $1.5B+ valuation, as Alibaba continues its reorganization (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Alibaba

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “every capability is a plugin” that can be swapped out (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-14

Data analyst sent to prison for stealing data, extorting employer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (www.ft.com)
2026-8-14 JPMorgan

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-14 Google

Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B (www.afr.com)
2026-8-14 AI

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks (z.ai)
2026-8-14 AI

Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14

A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (www.cnn.com)
2026-8-14

UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14

Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14 China Alibaba AI Apple

The White House announces new tariffs on drones and components, including a 100% levy on “particularly sensitive” models, aiming to cut reliance on Chinese tech (www.ft.com)
2026-8-14 China Drone

SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun says the company raised prices following negotiations with customers in Q1, and that it will charge more for wafers processed in Q3 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14

Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into prediction markets' “mention markets”, prompting Kalshi to remove bets on word choices from sports-related offerings (www.npr.org)
2026-8-14 CFTC

Apple sends new ‘Threat Notification' alerts over mercenary spyware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 Apple

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Europe Uber AI

A profile of Amy Kremer, a pro-Trump activist who helped organize the January 6 rally and currently chairs the grassroots anti-data center group Humans First (www.transformernews.ai)
2026-8-14 Trump

Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack (www.wired.com)
2026-8-14

Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-14 4Q

Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-14 California

Microsoft Retreats In China (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-14 China Microsoft

Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-14 Apple

A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14

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