Tech

Security researchers claim Kimi K3 went outside its sandbox during defensive cybersecurity tests, but did not hack anything after accessing the internet (www.wired.com)
2026-8-7

An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on why “vibe coding” is never about coding, the SaaS apocalypse, building a “self-driving company”, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-8-7 SaaS Interview

A profile of DDN, a managed data storage company whose annual revenue is expected to grow from $300M pre-AI boom to $1B by year's end, fueled by AI partnerships (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

New Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens (www.kob.com)
2026-8-7 Mexico

Alphabet raises $25B in a bond sale; sources say the offering attracted roughly $115B of peak demand and that the company plans to issue US debt twice a year (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 Alphabet

Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 India Google

OpenAI rolls out a major ChatGPT upgrade, even if you don't pay for it (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7

Atlassian reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $1.77B, vs. $1.66B est., cloud revenue up 31% to $1.2B, forecasts Q1 revenue above est.; TEAM jumps 31%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 4Q Atlassian

ClickFix attack pushes macOS infostealer for crypto theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7

Twilio reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.5B, above $1.43B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; TWLO jumps 16%+ after hours (www.investors.com)
2026-8-7

Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-7 AI

'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to $696.1M, above $665M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 17%+ after hours (www.barrons.com)
2026-8-7

Instacart reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.04B, GTV up 14% to $10.35B, above est., forecasts Q3 GTV and core profit above est.; CART jumps 8%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7

Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

Roku reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.35B vs. $1.3B est., net income of $164.2M, ad revenue up 25% to $673M, and subscription revenue up 26% to $548M (variety.com)
2026-8-7

Lyft reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.84B, vs. $1.81B est., rides up 12% to 262.4M, and expects Q3 gross bookings growth to slow to 15%-19% (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-7

Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $3.6B, Nights and Seats Booked up 10% to 148.3M, above est., lifts 2026 revenue forecast; ABNB jumps 10%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 Airbnb

AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to boost inference performance, for an undisclosed sum (www.theregister.com)
2026-8-7 Toronto AMD

OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

Sources: OpenAI's new device, slated for 2027, is a hockey puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts that help give it personality, likely costing $300+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7

Hedge fund cyberattacks tied to BlackFile-linked UNC6671 extortion group (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7

Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-7 AI chatbot

Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-7 China AI

Figma CEO Dylan Field forfeits ~$46M in stock awards to revive investor confidence amid AI disruption fears; FIG is down ~77% from its peak more than a year ago (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding viable viruses that can infect bacteria but pose no threat to humans (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-7 AI

The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 Japan

Sources: Nscale told potential backers it generated $100M+ in Q2 revenue, up from $37M in Q1, and has $51B in contracts, ahead of a possible September US IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 IPO

Sources: Panthalassa, which aims to power data centers in the ocean using energy generated by waves, is raising $225M at a ~$2B valuation, up from $1B in May (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-7 Energy

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