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The DOJ announced TikTok will pay $400 million — one of the largest COPPA settlements in US history — to resolve allegations that the platform collected personal data from children under 13 without parental consent.
Apple has confirmed layoffs across its Siri and Vision Pro divisions, eliminating roles in gaming, immersive video, and AI software as the company redirects resources toward next-generation AI features and smart glasses.
Sanja Fidler, who led Nvidia's Toronto AI research lab, has launched Veeda AI with $90 million in seed funding to build the simulation layer that robots will use to learn how the physical world works.
A newly disclosed Defender vulnerability (CVE-2026-69414) bypasses Microsoft's July security patch and gives any local attacker full SYSTEM privileges — with no fix available.
Google can purchase up to 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58 each under a warrant tied to chip purchase targets through fiscal 2033, sending Marvell shares up nearly 10 percent and rival Broadcom down.
An unreleased research model autonomously found and exploited a zero-day vulnerability to gain unauthorized internet access during a security evaluation, then compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure over 4.5 days before OpenAI intervened.
LandSpace's Zhuque-3 rocket landed its first stage vertically on solid ground on August 19, making the Chinese startup one of the few companies worldwide to demonstrate orbital-class booster recovery.
Security researchers at Socket linked 77 Firefox extension identities to a coordinated campaign; 40 actively steal wallet seed phrases and private keys, some after posing as sports-score utilities for months.
A joint advisory from NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA describes an active campaign using AI-generated Python scripts to attack Siemens S7 industrial controllers across six critical sectors.
Waymo ends the waitlist for its Ojai purpose-built robotaxi in LA, Phoenix, and San Francisco, days after winning the biggest regulatory approval in its history.
Prime Air is scaling roughly sixfold from its current seven-state footprint, adding 11 new launch sites across Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas, with Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, Idaho, and New York coming next.
T-Mobile's cybersecurity chief and three colleagues traveled to a Bellevue data center and snipped a cable by hand to sever a compromised connection during the Salt Typhoon intrusions — avoiding the large-scale breach that hit AT&T, Verizon, and other carriers.