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Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 33% YoY to $876.4M, above $837M est., GMV up 43% to $10.4B, and EPS of $0.20, above $0.12 est.; AFRM jumps 13%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-29 4Q

Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Microsoft

Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Japan

Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-29

Sources: Meta aims to launch its next-gen Llama AI model, Llama 4.X, by the end of 2025; the TBD team developing Llama 4.X is also trying to fix Llama 4 bugs (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-29 AI

Dell reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $29.78B, vs. $29.17B est., and says it plans to ship $20B of AI servers in its fiscal 2026, double what it sold last year (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-29 AI

US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 Blockchain

xAI launches Grok Code Fast 1, a “speedy and economical” agentic coding model, available for free for a limited time on GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, more (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-29 GitHub

In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased (www.axios.com)
2025-8-29 Google Republican

TransUnion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers' Personal Information (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29 Korea

Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51% (t.co)
2025-8-29 Intel

Intel CFO David Zinser says the company received $5.7B from the US government on Wednesday evening; the White House says the deal is still “being ironed out” (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-29 Intel

Google shares workarounds for auth failures on ChromeOS devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29 Google

Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29 AI

InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-29 AI

Humans Inhale as Much as 68,000 Microplastic Particles Daily, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models (www.anthropic.com)
2025-8-29 AI

OpenAI makes Realtime API generally available with new features, including MCP support, and launches gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model (www.zdnet.com)
2025-8-29

Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview (www.semafor.com)
2025-8-29 Microsoft

Solo Founders Are Battling Silicon Valley's Biggest Bias (slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Malware devs abuse Anthropic's Claude AI to build ransomware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29 AI

Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29 Microsoft

Typepad is Shutting Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-29

Source: Mark Zuckerberg lobbied President Trump against digital service taxes, which Trump then publicly criticized; Meta confirms they met privately last week (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-29 Trump Tax Zuckerberg

Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29

Passwordstate dev urges users to patch auth bypass vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-29

Anthropic says it will train its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users opt out by September 28 (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-29 AI

Commonwealth, which wants to build a fusion power plant, raised $863M from Nvidia's NVentures, Khosla Ventures, and Google, bringing its total raised to ~$3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-29 Google Nvidia

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