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America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9 U.S. Battery

Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9

A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-9 Russia

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9 Google Amazon Microsoft Oracle

Prime Minister Leaves Door Open For Reviewing Policy of No Nuclear Weapons in Japan (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9 Japan

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-9 Amazon AI

Before and After Views of SpaceX Rocket's Moon Crash (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-9 SpaceX

Lifetime access to 1TB of cloud storage is just $129.99 through 8/10 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-9

Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-9

South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-8 Korea AI

NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8 NASA

How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-8 Amazon California

Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8

Ukrainian attacks on warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries are affecting tens of thousands of small businesses that rely on the platform (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-8 Russia Ukraine

A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacks (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-8 Russia Ukraine

Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-8 Japan Korea Taiwan AI

X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and says it will discontinue Revenue Sharing on September 7; existing members must apply for the new program (x.com)
2026-8-8

Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8 Trump Germany

Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-8 Nvidia Texas

Analysis: SpaceX is on track to build ~10 GW of compute capacity by 2027's end, with 6 GW-8 GW in 2027 alone, which could drive $300B in annual revenue run-rate (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-8-8 SpaceX

Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-8 Linux

Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (www.ft.com)
2026-8-8 China Hong Kong IPO

The US OCC denies Dutch fintech Bunq's application for a national bank charter, citing the need for more clarity on its business plan to expand in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-8 Fintech Netherlands

Virginia Governor To Intervene In Dominion-NextEra Merger (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8 Virginia

Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-8 Startup AI Manufacturing

The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms (www.politico.com)
2026-8-8 Republican Senate

Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-8 IPO

Water Utilities Group Partners With DEF CON Offshoot For Water Watch Center (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8

Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-8 chatbot

Kalshi and Polymarket Bets On Clinical Trials Criticized As 'Ghastly' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-8

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