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Mozilla Ships WebGPU in Firefox 141, Catching Up To Chrome's 2023 Launch (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 Firefox Chrome Mozilla

LameHug malware uses AI LLM to craft Windows data-theft commands in real-time (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-18 AI

Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT agent, its new tool capable of automating complex tasks (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18

Britain's Bankrupt Universities Are Hunting For Cheaper Models (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 U.K.

Get started in cybersecurity with this offensive security course bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-18

The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18

Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more (arstechnica.com)
2025-7-18 Apple

ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (www.wired.com)
2025-7-18 Browser

Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (every.to)
2025-7-18

OpenAI Debuts AI Agent That Controls Browsers To Automate Shopping, Presentations (it.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 AI

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18

'Sony is Still Stubborn About the Size of Its Cameras' (slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 Sony

Hacker steals $27 million in BigONE exchange crypto breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-18 Hacker

AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs, including the flagship $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 cores, set for July 23 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18 AMD

Judge Allows Nationwide Class Action Against Anthropic Over Alleged Piracy of 7 Million Books For AI Training (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 AI

Internal memo: Adam Mosseri says Meta has named long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 (www.axios.com)
2025-7-18

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (www.theblock.co)
2025-7-18 Equity Decentralize

Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-18 China

Max severity Cisco ISE bug allows pre-auth command execution, patch now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-18 Cisco

SEC filing: Augmodo, which is developing wearable tech for retail store employees, including Smartbadges that collect inventory data, raised $37.5M (www.geekwire.com)
2025-7-18 Retail

Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18 chatbot

Boulevard, which provides business management software for the self-care sector, raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an ~$800M post-money valuation (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-7-18 Equity

Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (www.axios.com)
2025-7-18 Drone

Cancer Death Rates Fall One-Third in US Since 1990s as Prevention Efforts Take Hold (science.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18

A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-18 AI

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with new plans, including Audiobooks+, offering more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18 Spotify

Uber Plans 20,000 Robotaxis in Six-Year Rollout with Lucid and Nuro (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-18 Uber

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt, more (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18 AI Browser

WeTransfer revises terms of service after user backlash over AI training concerns (indianexpress.com)
2025-7-18 AI

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