Tech

Cisco warns of ASA and FTD VPN flaw exploited to crash devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12 Cisco VPN

Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-12 Mobile

Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-12 AI Spotify

Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12 AI

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal agree to sell payments company Moneris to PE firm Francisco Partners for CA$2B in cash, splitting proceeds equally (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-12 Canada

Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12 Microsoft

Windows 10 KB5120249 cumulative update released with fixes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12

Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12

Protect your phone for 15 months with this $20 Norton subscription (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12

Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit (slashdot.org)
2026-8-12 California

SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-12 IOS Linux AI

Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12

Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B+ MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark (x.com)
2026-8-12

Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12 China Nvidia

France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-8-12 France

Wesco confirms security incident after ExfilSquad claims data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12

Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's special projects division and formerly was its COO, says he is leaving the company “to start something new” (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12

Flight tracking platform FlightAware sues Kalshi in New York, alleging Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-12 New York

England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-12

Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for and were aware for seven months of using “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-12

Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-12 Zuckerberg

eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (www.theblock.co)
2026-8-12

How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, now worth up to ~$824B, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merges with SpaceX (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-12 Tesla Elon Musk SpaceX

Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12 Apple

Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-12 Firefox Mozilla

Manus says it will “soon return to operating as an independent company”, implying it is close to finalizing the reversal of its acquisition by Meta (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12

River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (fortune.com)
2026-8-12

TSMC and Sony plan to establish Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, a $4.69B JV in Japan to make next-gen smartphone image sensors from 2029 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-11 Japan Manufacturing Sony

Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do “not represent a real person”; the system uses human review and AI tools (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-11 AI Spotify

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-11 AI Nvidia

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