US prosecutors are investigating a major cyberattack on the ATF after a ransomware gang claimed responsibility. Manchester Airports Group said cybercriminals stole data affecting up to 8.7 million customers. Microsoft rebranded its 365 roadmap as “AI at Work,” while Salesforce credited AI-fueled Flex Credit consumption for half its bookings. UK teachers’ AI use has doubled but working hours remain unchanged. A call-blocker seller was fined £190,000 for making nuisance calls.
Anthropic agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years for 460MW of AI compute in West Virginia, using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips ahead of its IPO. Apple set Sept 9 event; iPhone 18 Pro and first foldable expected. Amazon acquired DuckLabs, maker of open-source DuckDB, keeping it free. OpenAI’s Altman predicted AGI by end of 2026, as it trails Anthropic. The Trump administration signed AI job-impact data deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon.
Dolly Parton, the beloved country singer-songwriter behind “Jolene” and “9 to 5,” has died, reports confirmed Tuesday. In tech, Firefox 157 will enable JPEG XL decoding by default, and the Nitter project has reportedly received a cease and desist, breaking its Twitter front-end instances. Meanwhile, the Justice Department secured its first criminal conviction for FOIA evasion while defending practices that undermine transparency.
Iran-linked hackers forced a UK power plant to shut down; the grid stayed safe. Tesla is recalling nearly 3 million vehicles in China over hidden door handles. Nvidia’s Groq 3 LPU hit 3,400 tokens/sec on a small model, raising scaling questions. Memory prices are soaring—Gartner sees a $1.6 trillion year. LinkedIn users hit “slop” flags 1M+ times in three weeks. Old Macs can earn cash via Darkbloom’s AI inference network.
Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power generator for four days in what officials say is the first cyberattack to bring a British power plant to a standstill. The breach didn’t affect the wider energy supply and appeared meant to demonstrate access to critical infrastructure. The UK has warned energy firms and is drafting stricter cybersecurity rules. Also, a Fire HD 10 owner spent $266 on AI models to root the tablet Amazon kept shutting down.
The Dutch data protection authority fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for using automated systems to suspend drivers without proper notice or human review, violating GDPR. Uber plans to appeal. Meanwhile, security experts warn that AI agents are increasingly weaponized by attackers, urging organizations to adopt AI-driven red teaming and treat every agent as a privileged identity, as adversaries will attack regardless.
AI advocates filed an FTC complaint accusing companies of burning books by training on copyrighted literature without permission. Microsoft warned of active exploitation of a critical Entra ID flaw, already patched. Hackers poisoned Rust crates to steal credentials. GitHub’s CTO apologized after a second outage, pledging an overhaul. U.S. cyber officials urged patching TrueConf, a Russian video tool, due to attacks by Ukrainian hacktivists.
Bun 1.4 slashes CPU and memory usage while adding 1,500 Node.js tests. X.Org Server 26.1 RC1, the first feature release in five years, moves to Meson. OPKSSH open-sources SSH single sign-on via OpenID Connect. Go’s standard library now runs freestanding across 31 packages. Odin’s assembler proves assembly can be fully type-checked, and double-double pairs two doubles for 31-digit precision at roughly 9x cost.
GitHub blamed an eight-hour outage on autoscaling failure and a VS Code retry storm. Baidu said Chinese buyers want domestic AI chips over supply chain fears, denting Nvidia’s hopes. A breach at a third-party operator exposed guest data at 120 Quest hotels. NASA found SpaceX’s Moon crash left a 29-meter double crater. And HMRC’s low-code push cost ÂŁ657M—proving low code isn’t cheap.
The Trump administration has deleted or altered nearly 400 federal datasets, hitting health data hardest and threatening public health decisions. US officials are pushing for wider medical data access, while HIPAA leaves apps, DNA tests, and wearables exposed. Diesel refining margins hit a record $100 a barrel as the fuel-supply crunch worsens.
