China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
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https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/googles-gemini-has-a-branding-problem-and-so-does-the-rest-of-ai/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/how-do-we-explain-openais-executive-exodus/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach/
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/26/github-actions-was-down-yet-again/5292679
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/how-to-watch-apples-surprise-and-shine-event-in-september/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/apple-a-day-look-back-at-apple-milestones/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-sends-out-invites-for-its-annual-fall-iphone-event/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-launches-says-musks-x-gave-up-the-name/
https://www.wired.com/story/democrats-just-might-win-the-senate/
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-hugging-face-hack-debrief-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-to-expect-from-apples-confirmed-sept-9-launch-event/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/tcl-nxtpaper-11-plus-tablet-deal-labor-day-2026/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-sideload-android-apps-on-your-phone-in-2026/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/plug-in-solar-plus-batteries-save-money/
Life360's new QR pet tag costs $7.99 once, while Pet GPS adds live tracking and escape alerts with a paid membership. Here's where each fits.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-life360-pet-tag-vs-pet-gps/
Motion Assist is appearing on select Pixel phones with Android 17. Learn how its moving screen cues work, where to find it, and why access varies.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-android-17-motion-assist-pixel-phones/
Apple’s new Mac Studio pairs M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with up to 512GB of unified memory, targeting demanding local AI and creative workloads.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apple-mac-studio-2026-m5-ultra-local-ai/
Fitbit’s founders have launched Luffu Link, a $300 wearable that uses health sensors, LTE and AI to help families monitor health and safety.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-fitbit-founders-luffu-link-family-health-wearable/
WhatsApp is adding stronger two-step verification, multiple passkeys and more context for unknown callers as it expands protections against scams.
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https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-62890
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-62747
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-61939
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-62728
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-70337
https://www.ncsc.nl/alerts/ernstige-kwetsbaarheden-gevonden-in-draytek-vigorap
https://www.ncsc.nl/alerts/ernstige-kwetsbaarheden-in-productlijn-draytek-vigorswitch-update-nu
https://www.ncsc.nl/alerts/meerdere-kwetsbaarheden-in-apple-macos-tahoe
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-3034
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-3033
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-3032
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-3031
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-3030
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/fbi-disrupts-china-linked-qtfy.html
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WhatsApp is adding stronger two-step verification, multiple passkeys and more context for unknown callers as it expands protections against scams.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-whatsapp-security-updates-2fa-passkeys-caller-context/
Password notebooks are making an unexpected comeback as infostealers and browser attacks revive debate over the safest way to store credentials.
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TikTok and ByteDance agree to pay up to $400 million to settle US allegations involving children’s data, parental consent and account deletion.
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Microsoft Teams is adding a policy that lets IT admins automatically block detected external meeting bots instead of relying on organizer approval.
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Apollo Global Management confirmed a social-engineering breach exposing sensitive personal data amid a wider hacking campaign targeting financial firms.
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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apollo-data-breach-financial-firms-social-engineering/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/whos-tracking-you-use-this-new-service-to-find-out/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/microsoft-plugs-nearly-400-security-holes/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/canadian-man-pleads-guilty-in-snowflake-extortions/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/
You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here:
🚨Cyber
https://www.troyhunt.com/a-cautionary-tale-about-data-breach-claims-verification-and-carhartt/
I genuinely think I've nailed the IoT door lock situation! Well, Ubiquiti has, but I think I've worked out how to put it all into a residential house and have it make sense. There are a few basic tenets:
Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against the data in HIBP, helping identify exposed government accounts and respond when they appear in new data breaches.
https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-sri-lankan-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/
The current ransomware situation is a bit of a kludge (deep breath): a lot of ransomware (which often doesn't even involve "ware", it's just extortion) is carried out by kids who successfully make a truckload of money but can't spend it without
A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it's the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do you write your own FAQ then fail to
The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI.
Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Nanit recently raised $50 million from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech and language development, motor skills and more, while extending its presence in children’s bedrooms into early adolescence.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/spyware-for-babies.html
Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year.
Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in their taglines, the effects of AI are everywhere. Multiple spaces (Identity, SaaS, AppSec, Data) have almost every vendor leading with AI; existing unsolved problem areas just got worse.
At the same time, there’s a clear trichotomy in the market: tools that tell you how bad things are; tools that stop adversaries, and tools that prevent problems from occurring. While you’d suspect that the tools that fix things would dominate, the tools that merely tell you how bad things are seem to be frustratingly plentiful...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/black-hat-state-of-security-vendors.html
Interesting paper:
Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 2000 and 2023, our findings reveal that entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception through a process of façading: Entrepreneurs construct, perform, and protect illusory appearances (façades) that externally project high-growth performance to audiences while masking ventures’ actual underperformance. We identify three forms of façading—surface, reinforced, and deep façading—that are contingent on the severity of the gap that entrepreneurs face between audiences’ performance expectations and ventures’ performance reality. Our theoretical framework captures how entrepreneurs facing minor, wide, and extreme expectation-reality gaps engage in evermore sophisticated efforts to detach the venture’s externally projected appearance from its actual operational reality. Practically, we propose several approaches to deter and detect criminal deception, including the extension of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission surveillance and whistleblower program, investor due diligence reform, and dedicated entrepreneurship education interventions that clearly demarcate when entrepreneurs transgress into criminal deception. We make contributions to literatures on cultural entrepreneurship, organizational wrongdoing, and the social effects of entrepreneurship. ...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/criminal-deception-in-silicon-valley.html
The neon flying squid can fly in formation.
The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo and glided near the boat for about 30 metres. The astonished researchers were the first to capture photographs of such a thing, which looked like the early stages of an alien invasion.
They were probably neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii), the subsequent study states, a species that is part of a 20-strong flying squid family that was known to leap from the water but, until then, was only rumoured to also be able to glide above it...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/friday-squid-blogging-neon-flying-squid.html
This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying:
The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside.
Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-ex-1-7-4”), known for its ability to infect and destroy E. coli bacteria—the models generated about 700,000 potential designs, of which the researchers picked 285 that looked most promising.
The researchers then synthesised new DNA molecules using those designs and inserted them into E. coli bacteria, before waiting to see if viable bacteriophages would emerge...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-is-learning-to-write-genetic-code.html