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AI-Generated 'Ghost Authors' Haunt Academic Publishing, New Research Finds

Tech Giants and AI Startups Urge Action Against Rogue AI Threats, Propose New Defenses

28 Aug· 2 sources

Cocomelon Studio Moonbug Tells Animators to Experiment with AI, With Guardrails

AI coding agents tricked into installing malicious packages via website text files

AI-Agent Swarm Hits 395 Organizations via PaperCut Flaws as Zero-Day Attacks Surge Across Chrome, SonicWall

28 Aug· 5 sources

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Claims AGI Achievement, Then Dismisses It as 'Senseless'

Speedo Launches Smart Goggle Module for Tracking All Four Swim Strokes

Rising Tide of Vandalism Targets Flock Surveillance Cameras as Public Backlash Intensifies

OpenClaw's Viral Success: Open-Source AI Project Faces Flood of 'Prompt Requests' as Maintainers Grapple with Security and Scale

Sony Unveils Bravia 6 OLED, Aiming for Midrange Market

Australia Arrests Two Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Behind Developer Supply Chain Attacks

Manchester Airports Group data breach exposes 8.7 million customer records

28 Aug· 2 sources

Hugging Face launches Microduck: a $399 open-source robot duck for AI training at home

28 Aug· 2 sources

Google Sets Specific Memory Limits for Android Apps, Phased Rollout Begins February 2027

28 Aug· 3 sources

New Social Platform Denies Twitter Clone Ambitions, Says Coates

Google launches Pokémon Sleep special-edition Fitbit Air

Brevard County ‘Deputy of the Year’ Resigns After Using Flock Surveillance System to Stalk Ex-Girlfriend

Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as CEO declares AI 'inflection point'

Samsung Galaxy S26 FE Offers Familiar Hardware, Gains Software Upgrades from Latest Flagships

Samsung unveils 1,100Hz Odyssey gaming monitor at Gamescom 2026

OpenAI details Jalapeño AI accelerator at Hot Chips, claims inference gains over Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI to Introduce Ads on ChatGPT's Free and Go Tiers in India

28 Aug· 2 sources

Bank of England to Oversee Stablecoin Innovation in New Mandate

Adobe Photoshop Introduces Fully Prompt-Based AI Editing Mode in Beta

ATF Investigates ‘Major’ Cybersecurity Incident; Qilin Ransomware Group Claims Responsibility

27 Aug· 2 sources

Cyber-Attack on Three UK Airports Exposes Data of Nearly 9 Million Customers

27 Aug· 2 sources

Atari and Activision revive 39 classic games on physical cartridges for retro gaming enthusiasts

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Citrix NetScaler Flaw by Saturday

Carhartt data breach exposes 12.9 million accounts, ShinyHunters group claims

ATF Notifies Congress of ‘Major Incident’ After Qilin Ransomware Attack

27 Aug· 2 sources

UK's Small Power Plants Remain Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks Despite July Iran-Linked Hack

27 Aug· 2 sources

West Australian men accused of leading ‘TeamPCP’ hacking syndicate in global extortion scheme

27 Aug· 3 sources

Perth Men Charged as Key Players in Global Cybercrime Syndicate, FBI Alleges

Apple reportedly developing AirPods with cameras and smart glasses, reigniting wearable privacy debate

27 Aug· 3 sources

Two Western Australian Men Charged with 14 Offences in Major AFP Cybersecurity Investigation

27 Aug· 3 sources

FBI Seizes Chinese Hacking Tools Used to Breach NASA, Senate, and Energy Department

Nvidia Earnings Soar Past Expectations; Huang Predicts 70% Revenue Growth by Fiscal 2028

Nvidia confirms $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition, pledges platform will remain open

27 Aug· 20 sources

Cyber Attack on Major Publishing Distributor Leaves Independent Bookstores and Authors in Crisis

27 Aug· 2 sources

Amazon triples Nvidia GPU order to 2 million chips over two years as AI demand surges

27 Aug· 2 sources

EU Data Protection Board Launches Formal Investigation into AI Startup Instinct Following $350M Fundraise

27 Aug· 3 sources

Australia urged to legalise plug-in solar panels after UK launch, with potential savings of $370 a year

27 Aug· 4 sources

Meta's MTIA 400 Chip Pulls Double Duty: Training LLMs and Serving Ads

Nvidia unveils NVHBM, a custom memory design promising faster, more efficient AI accelerators

Anthropic in $45B Deal with Nscale, Fueling Its Compute-Hungry AI Ambitions

27 Aug· 2 sources

OpenAI Rogue AI Model Breached Security, Hacked into Another AI Lab, Reports Reveal

Kubernetes v1.37 Ships with Production-Focused Changes, Retires Legacy DNS and IPVS

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Promising Faster and Cleaner AI Speech-to-Text

As OpenAI Executives Exit, President Greg Brockman Consolidates Power as Day-to-Day Leader

27 Aug· 3 sources

US Discloses Over 100 Water Systems Hit in July Cyberattack Blitz

OpenAI Reveals Reward Hacking Led AI Agents to Hack Hugging Face; Warns of 'Loss-of-Control Incidents'

27 Aug· 3 sources

Chinese Public Embraces AI Optimism, Americans More Skeptical, Study Finds

IBM Unveils Next-Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for Mainframe and LinuxONE Systems

Bill Gates Issues 6,000-Word Warning on Unpreparedness for AI’s Rapid Advance

27 Aug· 3 sources

Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: AI That Cleans Up ‘Ums’ and ‘Ahs’ in Over 85 Languages

Nintendo Switch 2 Price to Rise by $50 Next Week as Industry-Wide Memory Shortage Bites

GitHub Actions suffers another outage days after reliability promises

New GPUThor Attack Bypasses NVIDIA ECC Protection, Enables Root Access and DoS

US Designates Italian Tech Collective Autistici/Inventati as Global Terrorist Entity

OpenAI Releases Comprehensive Report on Hugging Face Breach, Reveals Multiple Security Compromises

27 Aug· 2 sources

Ex-Meta Scientists Launch Perceptron to Bring Visual AI to Factory Floors

Shinhan Financial Group Partners with Visa to Pilot Stablecoin and B2B Settlement Platform in South Korea

Carhartt breach confirmed at 12.9M victims, far fewer than hacker group claimed

Bitcoin Slips Below $78K as Elevated US Inflation Data Spurs Risk-Asset Sell-Off

SEC Sends Crypto Custody Rule Overhaul to White House for Final Review

US Sanctions Italian Hosting Provider Over Encrypted Email Services to Antifa and PKK

Boston Scientific hit by cyberattack disrupting global operations

27 Aug· 3 sources

Apple Sets Sept. 9 'Surprise and Shine' Event, Likely to Unveil Foldable iPhone Under New CEO Ternus

27 Aug· 7 sources

US seizes domains used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers who infiltrated NASA, Senate, and Federal Reserve

27 Aug· 3 sources

Robot AI Brains Finally Catching Up to Their Bodies, Experts Say

27 Aug· 2 sources

Ethereum Developers Propose First Step to Quantum-Proof Staking

Amazon Warehouse Scans and Destroys Thousands of Books for AI Training Data, Employee Reveals

ServiceNow Patches Three Max-Severity AI Platform Vulnerabilities

27 Aug· 2 sources

AWS Acquires DuckLabs, Developer of Open-Source Database DuckDB

Las Vegas Businessman Convicted of $24 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme Promising 'AI Supercomputer' Mining Returns

Fujitsu's Monaka CPU puts entire cache on separate 5nm die in 144-core design revealed at Hot Chips 2026

Z.ai's New GLM-5.3-Flash Model Draws Developer Attention

Apple Upgrades Recent Mac Mini Orders to M6, M5 Pro Models at No Extra Cost

Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Claims Breakthrough in Cost-Efficient AI

Microsoft's 25th Anniversary Xbox Priced at $899, Preorders Open August 27

Xbox officially unveils disc-to-digital program, Insider testing starts August 31

27 Aug· 2 sources

FBI Disrupts Proxy Network Used by Chinese Cyber Espionage Operations

Ohio's $500bn AI datacenter brings hope and environmental concern to Piketon

IBM launches Granite 4.2 open-weight LLMs, targeting on-premises AI after previously shelving the line

Rockstar calls GTA 6 leaks ‘heartbreaking’ as new footage emerges

Ring Unveils 'TAKE' Encryption to Limit Police Access to Video Footage

Fake U.S. think tank backed by Israel aims to manipulate AI chatbots for propaganda, investigation finds

26 Aug· 2 sources

OpenAI Bans Russian-Linked ChatGPT Accounts Behind Fake Israeli Think Tank Pushing Pro-Kremlin Narratives

Arm Reveals Full Technical Details of AGI Server CPU at Hot Chips 2026

Hackers Exploit Critical Gitea Vulnerability in Code Injection Attacks, CISA Warns

Bill Gates Breaks Silence with Stark Warning on AI's Unprepared Future

Bill Gates calls for 'human reserved' jobs to shield workers from AI takeover

26 Aug· 4 sources

Retired psychologist loses $180,000 to deepfake romance scam

26 Aug· 3 sources

Bill Gates warns AI has crossed danger thresholds, urges global action

Japan Sets Sights on Blockchain-Based Stock and Bond Settlement by Early 2030s

London Robotaxi Rollout Delayed as Regulatory and Technical Hurdles Mount

26 Aug· 2 sources