A security researcher has disclosed nine vulnerabilities in disk encryption and pre-boot authentication software used in ATMs and across multiple other industries, raising concerns about how software…
Google Maps began displaying “Lake America” in place of Lake Ontario for US users in late August 2026, making it the first major online maps provider to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic on Aug. 29, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging Claude training used “brazen” illegal torrenting, scraping, and downloading of thousands of copyrighted books and sheet music. The complaint builds on Bartz v. Anthropic, where a judge said AI training can be legal but piracy isn’t, ordering $1.5B.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and more than 100 other companies co-signed a letter in August 2026 warning that organizations have only months to prepare for a surge in AI-enabled cyberattacks. The letter calls…
Google began automatically expanding its AI search summaries for some queries in 2026, pushing traditional link results further down the page, according to a report first noted by Search Engine…
Lambda secured $1B in private short-dated debt arranged by JP Morgan Chase to buy Nvidia AI chips it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reported Aug. 28, 2026. The financing follows a May 2026 $1B secured credit facility and a $926M loan for Nvidia GB300 GPUs, with talks for $3B pre-IPO funding.
Fraudsters in China are exploiting Microsoft Teams to run romance and cryptocurrency investment scams, tricking victims into transferring large sums of money through the enterprise messaging…
Brave adds email aliasing to block real-address tracking: after creating a Brave account, users choose an alias via a pop-up or right-click; mail is forwarded and then deleted from Brave servers. Brave doesn’t read contents beyond spam/virus filtering; notes are local (E2E if synced).
Friend-first photo app Retro raised $21M+ in Series A; an SEC filing dated Aug. 19, 2026 says the round closed in December, valuing it at $100M+ (PitchBook). Since its 2023 launch, Retro has ~7M downloads and 460% higher in-app spend over 180 days, monetizing subscriptions (no ads).
While India pressure builds on Meta, Sandhya Devanathan (Meta VP for India & Southeast Asia) is set to join OpenAI on Aug. 28, 2026, based in Singapore and reporting to APAC managing director Kiran Mani. She’ll lead consumer growth, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement across Southeast Asia and Australia after Meta apologized in August for a July Instagram restriction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian officials summoned Joel Kaplan.
A federal judge (Rita Lin, Aug. 28, 2026) ruled the Trump administration’s move to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” was illegal retaliation under the First Amendment, also citing “arbitrary and capricious” action and Fifth Amendment due process violations.
Cara, an image-sharing platform built for artists opposed to AI training on their work, was hit by three separate large-scale data scrapes in August 2026, exposing millions of images and user details…
