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A threat actor claims to be selling or leaking about 450,000 TaxAct records with emails, phones, and usernames. The claim is unverified as of mid-August 2026, and it sits beside other alleged gym software dumps.
Fairphone set an August 18 livestream for the Fairphone 6+. Leaks point to Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, 12GB RAM, and Cobalt Blue, while iQOO teases Z11 and Buds for August 20 in India.
Google showcased HEIR, an open-source homomorphic encryption compiler that converts pretrained models to operate on encrypted inputs for private recommendations, fraud checks, and more.
Qwen3.8-27B landed August 14 under Apache 2.0 with native multimodal input and 262K context extendable to 1M. The giant 2.4T companion uses a different license.
Malicious litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 hit PyPI on March 24, 2026 after a Trivy compromise harvested a publish token. CloudSEK's 2,500-org narrative needs the SecurityWeek nuance that most exposure predated LiteLLM.
Google Cloud is pitching an Agentic Data Cloud and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform where governed APIs become MCP tools. Apigee MCP support is the bridge from agents to live enterprise systems.
FBI officials disclosed an investigation into a North Korean remote IT worker employed by an unnamed US federal agency, extending a scheme long associated with private-sector hiring fraud.
Google's first smart speaker in six years is built around Gemini, sounds good at $99, and hides some of the best AI tricks behind a Home Premium subscription after a free trial.
Intel announced a $15 billion common stock offering on August 10 to fund AI-era manufacturing capacity. Shares dropped about 5% as investors priced dilution against distant foundry returns.
Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter Apache 2.0 model built for local agents. Quantized builds fit a single 24GB consumer GPU and run offline on Macs and PCs.
Seoul is launching a 5 trillion won fund, about $3.5 billion, for chip materials, parts, equipment, and fabless firms, plus matching trade finance, to reduce foreign supplier dependence.
Unitree priced a Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.80 yuan a share, implying about a $9 billion valuation while seeking roughly $900 million. Unlike most humanoid startups, it already reports profit.
