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- SEC investigates Situational Awareness after its leveraged AI bets unraveled
The regulator subpoenaed major lenders for records after Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund sold most of its stock portfolio to Citadel.
- AliExpress anti-bot scripts blocked one user's Bluetooth handoff by playing nothing
Two obfuscated anti-bot scripts opened live audio graphs, exposing a gap in browser mute controls and producing an unusual hardware side effect.
- GitHub blames capacity failure and retry storm for nearly eight-hour outage
A Central US autoscaling failure hit authentication, Actions and Copilot as GitHub races to move production traffic onto Azure.
- Attackers poisoned three Rust crates to steal developer credentials during builds
The malicious releases remained online for 86 to 107 minutes across packages with roughly 264M lifetime downloads.
- 'Amazon Tax' collected $76B from ads while brands paid to defend their names
Seth Godin's publisher paid about $1 per click for his exact book title, exposing the defensive bidding inside a business growing 26%.
- Quantinuum reports $8 million Q2 revenue, partners with Oracle on Helios cloud service
CEO Rajeeb Hazra says Quantinuum's $2.1 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments gives it room to accelerate its business plans while maintaining disciplined capital allocation.
- Trump Media posts $238 million loss as Trump's crypto pivot overwhelms media revenue
The president's company is selling faster access to posts from Trump and his administration while bitcoin and Cronos losses dwarf revenue from Truth Social.
- Wordfence reports BdThemes supply-chain compromise through WordPress admin feed
Wordfence reported malicious code delivered through a BdThemes promotional system inside WordPress dashboards after an attacker poisoned a vendor-controlled JSON feed.
- No, the FAA didn't hire 2,000 new air traffic controller gamers
The April 2026 ads targeted gamers; the cited total was reached in fiscal 2025 and counts trainees, not fully certified controllers.
- Cloudflare CTO proposes a Starlink-native transport protocol; Musk forwards it
Dane Knecht wants Cloudflare and Starlink to redesign internet transport for moving satellites, extending earlier work on edge capacity.
- RuntimeWire passes 1,000 unique RSS subscribers
The milestone gives the independent AI and startup publication a growing base of readers who receive its reporting outside algorithmic feeds.
- Original reporting drove 71% of RuntimeWire reads in the last 30 days
The share excludes unclassified early articles and uses a strict test that treats any cited news publication as press-sourced.
- Apple briefly removes Telegram as Durov alleges a takedown extortion attack
Pavel Durov alleges an extortion scheme exploited edited posts, while Apple says Telegram removed the content and banned the account.
- Tesla produces its 10 millionth vehicle, six years after crossing 1 million
The milestone car rolled out of Fremont as Tesla prepares the California factory for a larger role in robotics.
- Researcher says Cursor uploaded 736 MB despite disabled indexing
Migel Tissera says the transfers continued from July 18th to July 27th after his paid plan ended; Cursor's docs tie such uploads to indexing.
- RuntimeWire's First 10 Weeks: 164,500 Pageviews, 1,343 Stories and Two Viral Hits
Ten weeks after publishing its first story, RuntimeWire recorded 56,000 pageviews and published 225 articles in a single week as traffic, membership and newsroom output reached new highs.
- Clipboard Health lawsuit forces open the economics of gig nursing
Clipboard Health co-defendant ordered to reveal nurse wages, client fees and contractor-cost math
- C3EL wins two NASA SEWP VI slots for federal IT buying
The Tampa woman-owned contractor gains access to product and mission-services categories, but the IDIQ ceiling is not booked revenue.
- Boston Dynamics keeps Atlas in the World Cup conversation with Viking Row clip
The Waltham robotics company posted a Viking Row clip days after Hyundai put Atlas inside a live World Cup match environment.
- CERT/CC warns Tenda router firmware has an undocumented admin backdoor
CERT/CC says five firmware builds accept any username if a hidden alternate password matches a device configuration value.
- The British Are Coming for the Algorithm, and YouTube Wants Creators to Mobilize
The UK proposal is a consultation, not a law, but it puts creator reach inside a fight over who controls video discovery.
- Musk says he has 'wised up' in reply to the 'takers' having the right to vote
Musk's reply did not happen in a vacuum: the world's richest man has already been tied to a $1 million voter-registration giveaway that court filings later said involved handpicked MAGA supporters, not a random drawing.
- Hirotaka Sato's cyborg cockroach can now work underwater for three hours
NTU and Waseda researchers built a flexible 3D-printed oxygen suit for remote-controlled insects in flooded disaster zones.
- A Linux LUKS suspend regression left encryption keys in memory for two years
Ingo Blechschmidt traced the bug to a Linux 6.9 kernel refactor and proposed tests and warnings to stop silent failures.