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Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 Europe

A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-16

Tara Reade: The US is handing its war machine to Israel (www.rt.com)
2026-8-16 Israel

America's murder crisis isn't as hopeless as many believe (www.rt.com)
2026-8-16 U.S.

Ukrainian missiles attack Russian region – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-8-16 Russia Ukraine

Iranian Regime's Dangerous Strategy: Outlast Trump, Return Stronger (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-16 Trump Iran

Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-16

Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16

New Evooo1Bot Linux botnet turns routers into traffic relay nodes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-16 Linux

Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-16 Google Alibaba

New trick found to put Trump's name on Kennedy Center – media (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Trump

Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy (www.ft.com)
2026-8-15 Shanghai

Own 2TB of cloud storage for life with FileJump for just $59 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15

Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star' (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15

Kiev fighting NATO's war ‘until the last Ukrainian' – US journalist (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Ukraine

Russian world record holder claims European swimming gold (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Russia Europe

Magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Indonesia kills at least five (VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Indonesia

Nigel Farage wins ‘victory against the establishment' (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15

Ukrainian press gang conscripts Red Cross driver during evacuation (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Ukraine

BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-15 Quantum

Russia strikes Ukrainian Danube port rail hub – MOD (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Russia Ukraine

Meltdowns and meager meals: How bad is the situation aboard US aircraft carrier attacking Iran? (www.rt.com)
2026-8-15 Iran

Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 AI Facial Recognition

Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” (www.ft.com)
2026-8-15 IPO

Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (www.sdxcentral.com)
2026-8-15

Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore (www.ft.com)
2026-8-15 China Singapore Ban

SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (techfundingnews.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-8-15 India Uber

Europeans flock to Chinese EVs amid Heat Waves, Iran Crisis (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-15 China Iran

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