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A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call

Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cybersecurity editor, wrote it. A ShinyHunters spokesperson told her the group broke in by voice-phishing a member of staff. There was no exploit and no unpatched flaw. Someone picked up the phone. The detail that […]

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The US told Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips. It has no rule that stops it

The commerce secretary made the comments to The Wall Street Journal on 14 August, in a piece by Rolfe Winkler, Raffaele Huang and Amrith Ramkumar. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said. There have to be “other solutions to the memory issue, but it’s not great American companies using Chinese memory”. […]

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PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it

The Wall Street Journal reported the talks on 14 August. Cara Lombardo, Gina Heeb and Lauren Thomas wrote it. The framing is what changed. PayPal is in talks to sell itself, rather than fielding an offer it has rejected. Stripe and Advent International proposed $60.50 a share in July, which PayPal considered insufficient. The two […]

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The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first

Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insider’s Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6. The headline writes itself. The conversation logs say something else. […]

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EV prices rose for the first time in 2026, and the discounts are why

The average US electric vehicle sold for $56,126 in July, up 1.6% on a year earlier and the first rise of 2026, according to Kelley Blue Book. Automakers cut EV incentives by 24.3% year on year after pulling models and shrinking supply. The average electric car in the United States sold for $56,126 in July. […]

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OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT

OpenAI’s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer business, finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders on Friday, months earlier than the company had forecast. Its annualised run rate has reached $40bn, roughly double a year ago. OpenAI now makes more money from businesses than from ChatGPT subscribers. Finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders […]

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ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count

The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. Kaitlyn Huamani, who covers social media and internet culture, wrote it. ASU declined an interview request about the new degree. The university’s own documents […]

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Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more

Emma Rapaport and Paul Smith reported the markdown for the Australian Financial Review on 14 August. The figure appears two ways and both are correct. It is $7.1bn in US dollars, and A$10bn, which is the number most headlines carried. The cut takes Blackbird and Airtree’s mark from $42bn to $34.9bn, a drop of 17%. […]

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