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Aug 15, 2026

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·VentureBeat

GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor

Chinese AI startup Z.ai released GLM-5.3, reporting major gains in long-horizon coding and cybersecurity from expanded post-training rather than a new base model. The company says...

GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor
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·TechCrunch

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up

PayPal is reportedly still in negotiations over a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent. The talks come as PayPal’s new CEO works to revive growth and reposition...

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·dmitry.gr

Developer argues RISC-V’s optional extensions, gaps, and encoding choices undermine its ambitions beyond low-cost microcontrollers

A technical blog post lays out a broad critique of RISC-V, arguing that the ISA tries to serve everything from tiny microcontrollers to supercomputers and suffers from too much opt...

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·blog.cryptographyengineering.com

AI-driven software security could undermine law enforcement’s growing reliance on hacking to access encrypted devices and data

The article argues that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have adapted to encrypted communications by relying increasingly on device hacking and software vulnerabiliti...

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·TechCrunch

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test self-driving trucks on state highways. The approvals mark a formal st...

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·TechCrunch

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria

Joshua Kushner used Thrive Capital’s first-ever investment letter to caution that enthusiasm around AI should not override rigorous dealmaking. He said the AI opportunity is enormo...

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·The Verge

Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works

Code found in Samsung’s Galaxy Wearable app suggests the company is developing Galaxy H1 over-ear Bluetooth headphones. The product could launch in 2027, marking Samsung’s first ov...

Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works
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