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GSC Malaysia has published a list of 31 cinema halls nationwide certified under Disney's Infinity Vision program, a premium large format certification (not a proprietary format like IMAX). Certified halls must meet minimum specs: 45-foot screen width, immersive or 7.1 sound, and brightness levels of 14 foot-lamberts in 2D or 6 foot-lamberts in 3D. The first Infinity Vision releases are Avengers: Endgame Encore in September and Avengers: Doomsday in December.

The article body was not captured—only Ars Technica's privacy notice and navigation boilerplate are present. Based on the title and URL alone, this appears to cover a BGP hijack attack that used hijacked IPs to infect real networks, described as stemming from multiple errors.

A projection cited by Tom's Hardware estimates AI data center investment will reach $32 trillion by 2050, exceeding the capital requirements historically needed for railways, electrification, or the internet. The article itself is behind a paywall; only the headline and site navigation boilerplate are available in the source text.

Startups are pitching an 'Airbnb for AI inference' model where gamers rent out their idle PCs for AI workloads, but the article notes profitability remains unproven. The actual article body was not provided beyond site navigation boilerplate, so details on specific startups, pricing, or technical architecture are unavailable.

An open-source project has been created to crowdsource a database of graphics cards, power supplies, and liquid cooler pumps that produce audible coil whine, and is soliciting community-submitted reports of affected parts.

SonicWall patched two actively exploited zero-days in its SMA 1000 series VPN appliances (models 6210, 7210, 8200v): CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS 10.0, pre-auth SSRF) and CVE-2026-83549 (CVSS 7.8, post-auth OS command injection). Attackers are likely chaining both to achieve remote code execution. Fixes are in platform-hotfix versions 12.4.3-03526 and 12.5.0-02952; older versions are vulnerable.

The UK government launched a £100M R&D procurement scheme under its Sovereign AI initiative, opening four competitions for AI startups: NHS productivity, defense data integration, compute/inference efficiency (with ARIA's Scaling Inference Lab), and AI agent security (with the NCSC). Successful firms build demonstrator-stage tech with government departments, with potential to scale across the public sector. A separate £500M venture fund also invests directly in British AI startups.

An unofficial homebrew port allows GTA V to run natively on a jailbroken, overclocked Nintendo Switch at 30 FPS. The article itself is mostly Tom's Hardware membership boilerplate with minimal technical detail about the port.

Researchers from Pandex demonstrated a supply-chain attack where they embedded arbitrary code inside llms.txt files—a new convention analogous to robots.txt that websites use to instruct AI agents on how to scrape and interact with their content. They successfully got their code executed by AI agents from Fortune 500 companies, illustrating that the boundary between data and code has effectively collapsed for agent-based systems.

Northern Ireland's Education Authority plans to extend its Fujitsu EA One contract by £15 million without competition, raising the ceiling to £55.4 million and keeping Fujitsu in place until March 2032. The authority says replacing the heavily customized Oracle-based finance, HR, and payroll system requires significant lead time, and switching suppliers mid-transition would cause technical disruption and duplicated costs.

An analyst claims China's EUV lithography technology is roughly at the stage ASML reached in 2004, putting Beijing's domestic semiconductor industry approximately two decades behind Western rivals. The article itself is mostly site navigation boilerplate with no further technical detail beyond the headline claim.

Oklahoma City is attempting to charge a farmer $17,000 for body cam footage of their arrest at a public debate over a data center project. The farmer was arrested for trespassing after exceeding their allotted speaking time by 30 seconds during the hearing.

Russia's Starlink competitor launched 16 satellites, but the entire batch failed to reach their 870km operational altitude, with many achieving less than half that target and two already de-orbiting back to Earth. The article text itself is mostly site navigation boilerplate with no additional technical detail beyond the headline.

Aeon Bank has enabled Google Pay support for its Visa Debit Card-i, letting customers add the numberless card to Google Wallet via manual entry for contactless payments on Android. A 3% cashback promo on eligible Google Pay transactions runs from 28 August to 30 September 2026, capped at RM30 per customer.

The UK government rejected House of Lords proposals to bring AI vendors and frontier model developers within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill. Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd argued this would not prevent hostile actors from misusing AI products, instead pointing to the AI Security Institute and a voluntary AI Cyber Security Code of Practice (ETSI EN 304 223). Lords cited rogue agentic behavior involving Anthropic and OpenAI and questioned whether companies that cannot control their agents should be trusted to self-regulate.

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is launching an unnamed defense tech startup, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp as its first lead investor. No investment size, product name, or technology details have been disclosed; Fedorov's press office said further cooperation stages with Palantir would be announced gradually.

Acer showed a concept foldable handheld called Project DualPlay Mini that doubles as a netbook, alongside the Predator Atlas 7 handheld powered by Intel's Arc G-series chip. Both were presented as hardware concepts/announcements at a trade event.

Acer announced seven new gaming monitors across its Nitro and Predator lines, featuring tri-mode panels, QD-OLED and Mini LED technology, and refresh rates reaching 1,000 Hz. The article text provided is mostly site navigation boilerplate with no substantive specs, pricing, or availability details.

Acer announced the Swift Blade 14, a 1.76-pound laptop using Intel's Wildcat Lake processor, under a new sub-brand ahead of the IFA tradeshow. No specs beyond weight and CPU platform were provided in the available text.

Meta settled an $18 billion lawsuit with 29 U.S. state attorneys general over youth safety on Instagram and Facebook, agreeing to changes including two-hour daily usage limits for under-18 users, disabling extreme makeup and cosmetic surgery filters, and tighter age verification. Morgan Stanley analysts speculate the settlement removes a legal overhang and could accelerate Meta's AI product launches, though there is skepticism about Meta's scattergun approach.

GeoNetwork, an open-source geospatial metadata catalog used by many government geoportals, patched an unauthenticated RCE chain (CVE-2026-63219, CVSS 8.6 + CVE-2026-58400, CVSS 9.1) in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on July 8, 2026. The chain combines a missing authorization check on the formatter upload endpoint with an unsafe Saxon XSLT processor configuration that allows arbitrary OS command execution. The flaw is reachable from version 4.0.6 onward and was reported by Ethiack researcher Rafael Castilho.

A Russian national extradited from Cyprus faces U.S. charges for a 2016-2017 campaign that used ~255 fake freelance-platform accounts to send malware-laced Excel attachments to ~80,000 users. The Excel macros downloaded TVRAT (a TeamViewer-exploiting RAT) and DarkVNC, giving remote control of infected machines. Thousands of computers were compromised, with roughly half the victims in the U.S.

The UK's National Audit Office reports that legacy government IT systems—using inconsistent data standards and representing the same person differently across systems—would have severely constrained the now-cancelled national digital ID scheme. PM Andy Burnham scrapped the plan, which predecessor Keir Starmer had announced less than a year earlier, after the government also reversed making digital ID compulsory for right-to-work checks over cost and civil liberties concerns. NAO head Gareth Davies noted that international experience shows digital identity works best when people find it useful in everyday life, paired with effective security and privacy protections.

A developer used Claude Code as an autonomous agent to debloat an Android smart TV, deactivating apps and shortening animations without root access, resulting in performance described as smoother than the TV was when new. The article is light on technical detail beyond the headline, with the body text mostly being site boilerplate.

DC Handal has installed a 240kW Autel DC charger with two CCS2 nozzles at Zenith Hotel Kuantan, making it the most powerful DC charger in the city. It is priced at RM1.40/kWh and supports card tap-to-pay, TNG eWallet QR, Gentari Go, JomCharge, and ChargEV activation without requiring a dedicated app.