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Washington doesn’t want Europe to talk about American tech “kill switch”

Fight digital sovereignty initiatives, US diplomats told.
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Anthropic will donate $20 million in support of AI regulation

Claude maker has warned AI could get out of hand.
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Thanks to ACLU, US lawyers will know if police used surveillance tech on their clients

Surveillance technology creates and perpetuates injustices across the legal system in the US, the ACLU says
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"Roadmap to murder:" engineer spent 6 months asking AI how to kill


Republican US senator accuses Zuckerberg of trying to destroy Meta whistleblower

Josh Hawley thinks Meta is essentially attempting to bankrupt Sarah Wynn-Williams.
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Colombia's energy giant Ecopetrol says hackers stole data from 3,300 accounts, demanding ransom

Hackers are threatening to publish the data if their demands aren't met.
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Medical giant Abbott investigates two cyber incidents as ShinyHunters claims breach

One threat actor claims patient data. Another says it stole technical secrets.
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Android bug lets Gemini send messages without unlocking your phone

Your locked phone wasn't as locked as you thought.
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Meta, Anthropic in talks for potential $10 billion compute lease deal, source says

The discussions are in their early stages, but the deal could be worth up to $10 billion over two years.
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Hackers breach Clover Health employee accounts

It remains unclear what information, if any, had been compromised.
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Kenya investigates breach of president's website

Hackers demanded a ransom of approximately 41 million Kenyan shillings (about $317,000) to bring the site back up.
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New GoSerpent malware spies on targets in Southeast Asia for months

The malware targeted government and diplomatic entities in Southeast Asia.
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Employees react as Verizon cuts another 3,000 jobs, sells 274 stores in latest restructuring

Most retail workers are expected to transition to franchise owners after the August 16th sale.
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Evian, Silk, International Delight maker Danone hit by Qilin ransomware gang

Hackers claim they stole financial records, customer data, and thousands of internal company files.
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EU’s massive fine to Google will help fund Brussels coffers

The €4.6 billion ($5.26 billion) sanction was issued to Google in 2018, and the tech giant finally paid up.
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Two Scattered Spider hackers sent to prison over London attack

If the attackers got their way, damages could have reached $75 billion.
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AWS CloudFront outage knocks websites offline as 5xx errors spread worldwide

A hidden AWS routing failure sent websites crashing for more than three hours.
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Google required to open up to AI, search engine rivals under EU rules

Google forced to share AI and search data with rivals.
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Grok user tried to direct child porn movie, now xAI is seeking “reputational damages”


Tesla driver manually overrode FSD before crashing into house and killing a woman

The victim’s daughter sued Tesla for at least $1 million in damages in late June
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