Google has launched the Pixel 10 series, featuring the Tensor G5 processor and Qi2 charging. 👉tech.slashdot.org
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is Google's most durable foldable phone with IP68 dust and water resistance, priced at $1,799. 👉theverge.com
Google introduced the Pixel Watch 4 with a curved display, Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 chip, and satellite communication for $349. 👉theshortcut.com
Gemini for Home, a new AI-powered voice assistant, will replace Google Assistant on Nest devices starting in October. 👉theverge.com
Google is updating the Pixel Buds Pro 2 with adaptive audio and background noise reduction. 👉theverge.com
Google is partnering with Stephen Curry as a “performance advisor” for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products. 👉theverge.com
Google Photos will allow users to edit images using text or voice prompts, starting with Pixel 10 devices in the US. 👉techcrunch.com
Google is launching its first magnetic wireless charging accessories under the Pixelsnap brand. 👉theverge.com
Artificial Intelligence Developments:
Harvard dropouts are launching Halo X, AI-powered smart glasses that listen, record, and transcribe conversations for $249. 👉techcrunch.com
OpenAI CFO states the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July but faces compute constraints. 👉cnbc.com
TinyFish, which develops AI-powered web agents for automating online tasks, raised a $47M Series A. 👉reuters.com
NYC-based Bluefish Labs raised a $20M Series A to analyze prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions. 👉siliconangle.com
NASA and IBM released Surya, an open-source AI model to predict solar flares and winds. 👉technologyreview.com
Google's new AI features for Pixel include Magic Cue for contextual suggestions, Voice Translate for calls, and Visual Overlays for the camera. 👉techcrunch.com
FieldAI raised $405M to develop “brains” for robots at a $2B valuation. 👉axios.com
Google is adding "Projects" feature to Gemini to run research tasks. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
OpenAI CEO says GPT-6 is already in the works, and it'll not take as long as GPT-5. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Google is taking a lot of digs at Apple here. Mentioning failed promises on AI, walled gardens, and a few other digs (1 day ago). 👉x.com
A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with operating the Rapper Bot botnet, used in over 370,000 DDoS attacks worldwide. 👉msn.com
The FTC is suing LA Fitness over allegations of making it difficult for consumers to cancel gym memberships. 👉ftc.gov
Harvard dropouts created a facial-recognition app for Meta's smart glasses to prove the tech could be used to dox people. 👉tech.slashdot.org
Windows 11 users will receive UI refinements and AI improvements starting next month. 👉windowscentral.com
Amazon is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company's homegrown operating system. 👉reuters.com
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the operators of LA Fitness and other gyms over allegations they make it exceedingly difficult for consumers to cancel their gym memberships. 👉ftc.gov
Reuters: Sources: Amazon plans to revamp its Fire tablets and release a higher-end Android tablet as soon as 2026, after using its Android-forked Fire OS since 2011 (1 day ago). 👉reuters.com
Massimo, sues US CBP over approval of Apple Watch imports (1 day ago). 👉news.bloomberglaw.com
Sony says it is raising PlayStation 5 prices by $50 for all models in the US due to a “challenging economic environment”, starting on August 21 (1 day ago). 👉theverge.com
Mobile Phishing and Security Exploits:
Popular password manager plugins are vulnerable to clickjacking, leading to potential credential theft. 👉thehackernews.com
A previously unreported remote access trojan called GodRAT is targeting trading firms using steganography and Gh0st RAT code (1 day ago). 👉thehackernews.com
A new exploit combining two critical flaws in SAP NetWeaver exposes unpatched systems to remote code execution (1 day ago). 👉thehackernews.com
The new Al features make the Pixel 10 phones and watches look the same (1 day ago). 👉gizmodo.com
Mobile phishers target brokerage accounts in ramp-and-dump cashout scheme (1 day ago). 👉krebsonsecurity.com
Hackers steal Microsoft logins using legitimate ADFS redirects (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Sony Will Raise PS5 Prices On August 21 - Here's How Much They'll Cost (1 day ago). 👉bgr.com
Google is taking a lot of digs at Apple here. Mentioning failed promises on AI, walled gardens, and a few other digs (1 day ago). 👉x.com
There's a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company's homegrown operating system (1 day ago). 👉reuters.com
Sony raises PS5 console prices in the US (1 day ago). 👉engadget.com
Microsoft Security Updates and Issues:
Microsoft releases emergency updates to fix Windows recovery (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance vulnerability notifications via MAPP starting in July. 👉bloomberg.com$
Document reveals Microsoft's security plan failed to disclose China-based engineers maintaining DoD cloud systems (1 day ago). 👉propublica.org
Microsoft is improving the game shader experience in Windows, with a new “advanced shader delivery” feature. (1 day ago). 👉theverge.com
Microsoft is improving the game shader experience in Windows, with a new “advanced shader delivery” feature. (1 day ago). 👉theverge.com
Microsoft Corp. has curtailed Chinese companies' access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its technology (1 day ago). 👉bloomberg.com$
Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (1 day ago). 👉cnbc.com
Microsoft shares workaround for Teams "couldn't connect" error (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft reportedly fixing SSD failures caused by Windows updates (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft fixes Windows upgrades failing with 0x8007007F error (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft is improving the game shader experience in Windows, with a new “advanced shader delivery” feature (1 day ago). 👉theverge.com
Microsoft and ASUS Gaming Handhelds:
Microsoft and Asus plan to launch the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds on October 16. 👉theverge.com
The new Xbox Ally handhelds are arriving October 16th but no pricing is available yet (1 day ago). 👉theverge.com
Gaming Industry News:
Sony will increase PlayStation 5 console prices by $50 across all models in the United States starting August 21. 👉blog.playstation.com
Microsoft and Asus plan to launch the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds on October 16. 👉theverge.com
Sony is raising PS5 console prices in the US, the standard PS5 rises to $550, the Digital Edition to $500, and the PS5 Pro to $750 (1 day ago). 👉engadget.com
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement:
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) announced charges against the alleged developer and administrator of the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire botnet (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
A US judge sentences Noah Urban, a member of Scattered Spider, to 10 years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts (1 day ago). 👉bloomberg.com$
US CBP, saying CBP exceeded its authority in an Aug 1 internal advice ruling that enabled Apple to reactivate a Watch blood oxygen tracking feature (1 day ago). 👉news.bloomberglaw.com
FBI Warns FSB-Linked Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Cisco Devices for Cyber Espionage (1 day ago). 👉thehackernews.com
Data Breaches and Privacy Concerns:
A massive Allianz Life data breach impacts 1.1 million people. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Inotiv, a big pharma research corp fined $35M for animal cruelty last year, is hit by ransomware. 👉cybernews.com
47,000 people affected by data breach at Business Council of New York State. 👉cybernews.com
A security researcher finds 59% of US adults use AI assistants to check the weather, 51% to play music, 47% to get answers from the web, and 40% for timers, mirroring usage in 2018 (1 day ago). 👉sherwood.news
Microsoft Failed to Disclose Use of Chinese Engineers on Pentagon Systems, Records Show (1 day ago). 👉winbuzzer.com
A student Loan Breach exposes 2.5 million records (3 days ago). 👉threatpost.com
Malware and Exploits:
Rapper Bot” malware seized, alleged developer identified and charged (1 day ago). 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Threat actors are exploiting a flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deploy DripDropper malware on cloud Linux systems (1 day ago). 👉thehackernews.com
New GodRAT Trojan Targets Trading Firms Using Steganography and Gh0st RAT Code (1 day ago). 👉thehackernews.com
Lyceum APT Returns, This Time Targeting Tunisian Firms (3 days ago). 👉threatpost.com
New Whitepaper: The Evolution of Phishing Attacks (1 day ago). 👉pushsecurity.com
Cybersecurity Training:
Cybersecurity training doesn’t work: time wasted with no impact, study finds. 👉cybernews.com
Government Regulations and Policies:
India has moved a legislation to ban online money gaming due to rising addiction and financial frauds (1 day ago). 👉bangkokpost.com
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders supports Trump's plan to buy a 10 percent stake in Intel (1 day ago). 👉arstechnica.com
The U.K. government has apparently abandoned its plans to force Apple to weaken encryption protections and include a backdoor that would have enabled access to the protected data of U.S. citizens. (1 day ago). 👉thehackernews.com
Rotten Tomatoes Analysis:
Average Tomatometer scores have climbed steadily since Fandango's 2016 acquisition of Rotten Tomatoes (1 day ago). 👉statsignificant.com
ESims:
Google removes support for physical SIM cards on the Pixel 10 series in the US, relying solely on eSIM. 👉9to5google.com
Google follows Apple's lead by dropping the physical SIM in most U.S. Pixel 10 series models (1 day ago). 👉phonearena.com
PlayStation 5 Price Increase:
Sony says it is raising PlayStation 5 prices by $50 for all models in the US due to a “challenging economic environment”, starting on August 21. (1 day ago). 👉theverge.com
Sony raises PS5 console prices in the US (1 day ago). 👉engadget.com
The PlayStation 5 Now Costs $50 More Than It Did at Launch (1 day ago). 👉howtogeek.com
Sony hikes PS5 prices by $50, starting tomorrow (1 day ago). 👉tomshardware.com
Sony Will Raise PS5 Prices On August 21 - Here's How Much They'll Cost (1 day ago). 👉bgr.com
Airlines - Window Seats:
Charging extra for window seats that are not actually beside windows (1 day ago). 👉courthousenews.com
Passengers sue Delta, United over 'windowless' window seats (1 day ago). 👉courthousenews.com
Money Gaming - India:
India has moved a legislation to ban online money gaming due to rising instances of addiction, money laundering and financial frauds through these apps (1 day ago). 👉bangkokpost.com
India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry (1 day ago). 👉techcrunch.com
Google and AI - Stephen Curry:
- Google is partnering with Steph Curry and rolling out a personalized AI fitness coach — here's how to access it (1 day ago). 👉tomsguide.com
- Google's Pixel 10 Pro Event: Google isn't just paying big for AI talent — it's splurging on celeb talent too (1 day ago). 👉businessinsider.com$
- Google, NBA's Steph Curry Ink Multi-Year Health Tech Deal (1 day ago). 👉bloomberg.com$
- Google Names Stephen Curry as New Performance Advisor in Multi-Year Deal (1 day ago). 👉boardroom.tv
- Stephen Curry is bringing his elite athlete insights to Google products (1 day ago). 👉blog.google
- Google's Big Day: New Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds, and AI Health Coach Announced (1 day ago). 👉androidguys.com
OpenAi Revenue:
- "Even with the company hitting revenue milestones, it faces ongoing pressures…" (1 day ago). 👉cnbc.com
- OPENAI LOGGED ITS FIRST $1 BILLION MONTH BUT IS STILL ‘CONSTANTLY UNDER COMPUTE,’ CFO SAYS (1 day ago). 👉reddit.com
- OpenAI CFO Sees Firm Selling AI Infrastructure Service in Future (1 day ago). 👉bloomberg.com$
- OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: Biggest issue we face is being ‘constantly under compute’ (1 day ago). 👉youtube.com
- OpenAi's CFO says these 3 things will help your company stay competitive in the AI era (1 day ago). 👉businessinsider.com$
- OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still ‘constantly under compute,’ CFO says (1 day ago). 👉reddit.com
ROG Xbox Ally Release:
ROG Xbox Ally handhelds launch October 16: Get Ready to Play! - Xbox Wire (1 day ago). 👉reddit.com
Xbox Reveals ROG Xbox Ally X Handheld Release Date But Not Price, Due To ‘Macro-Economic Conditions’ (1 day ago). 👉gameinformer.com
Microsoft lock in a release date for their ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, but no price yet because macroeconomics (1 day ago). 👉rockpapershotgun.com
Microsoft and Asus confirm Xbox Ally X and Ally release date and additional details (1 day ago). [👉www.t3.com](👉t3.com