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Modular has released Mojo 1.0, marking the language as stable and production-ready after development since 2023. The release consolidates syntax (unified `var` declarations, single `Pointer` type, Python-style lambdas), and Modular now uses Mojo internally as the foundation of its commercial MAX and Modular Cloud products. The open-source standard library has attracted nearly 200 contributors with over 1,100 merged PRs.

Rapid7 researchers disclosed an unauthenticated RCE chain in on-premises Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2026-55040 CVSS 9.1 for identity bypass, CVE-2026-63520 CVSS 8.1 for RCE via unsafe .NET type instantiation in Business Connectivity Services), affecting SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016, plus Project Server 2013 SP1 and Office Web Apps 2013 SP1. A significant portion of the vulnerability research was performed by an AI agent. SharePoint Online is not affected, and the July update breaks the chain while the August fix build numbers are not yet public.

SK hynix is reportedly expanding its China fab capacity, with a second phase that could boost local production by 50%, while also considering an IPO for its Solidigm SSD subsidiary. The article text itself is largely inaccessible behind a membership wall, so details beyond the headline are limited.

DeadLock ransomware, active since July 2025 with 96 claimed victims across Italy, Spain, Poland, Türkiye, and the U.S., uses Polygon smart contracts and the Session messaging network to decentralize its extortion infrastructure, making takedown harder. The group employs double extortion, selective encryption using Curve25519 and XChaCha20, and communicates via Session with Bitcoin or Monero payments.

A passenger on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta after DEF CON is suspected of jamming the aircraft's in-flight Wi-Fi and broadcasting a fake network called 'Delta Wifi Fast,' possibly using a deauthentication attack and a device like a Wi-Fi Pineapple to phish passenger credentials. Delta confirmed the incident, stated no aircraft systems were affected, and said it is investigating with federal law enforcement.

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Anthropic announced that an unreleased model made progress on the Riemann hypothesis by increasing the lower bound of solutions for which it holds true. A non-mathematician staff member prompted the model to attempt the problem, then the model autonomously coordinated 60 sub-agents over 1.5 days, testing 650 ideas and spending 31 million tokens. Two sub-agents developed the key mathematical ideas, 13 contributed supporting ideas, 30 failed to develop new ideas, 13 validated, and 2 wrote the paper; results were confirmed via the Lean proof assistant.

Manus, a general-purpose AI agent startup founded in China in 2022 and later relocated to Singapore, will resume operating as an independent company after Chinese regulators forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition. China's National Development and Reform Commission ruled in April 2026 that the deal violated foreign investment rules, and Manus is now notifying users that some will need to back up data generated on or after December 29, 2025.

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Joby Aviation agreed to acquire Ohio-based Resonant Sciences for $500M in cash and stock, creating a dedicated defense division led by Resonant co-founder J. Micah North. Resonant brings $100M in trailing 12-month revenue, RF and sensor systems, and access to classified U.S. government programs, while Joby's defense projects—including turbine-electric and hydrogen-electric aircraft and an autonomy stack—will fold into the new division.

Intel increased its public stock offering from $15B to $20B, pricing 210.5M shares at $95 each (a 6.5% discount to Friday's close), with proceeds earmarked only for 'general corporate purposes.' Analysts disagree on the intent: some see it as funding Intel Foundry's contract chipmaking ambitions, while Gartner's Gaurav Gupta notes the amount is modest for semiconductor expansion and may simply fund internal fab capacity for agentic AI CPU demand.

An unidentified passenger allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi network impersonating Delta's legitimate in-flight network on a Las Vegas-to-Atlanta flight, prompting pilots to alert air traffic control. Delta says no aircraft operating systems were affected and the in-flight network was not compromised, but the crew shut off Wi-Fi for about 30 minutes. It remains unclear what the passenger intended; some passengers had attended cybersecurity conferences in Las Vegas.

Inokom (Sime Motors' assembly subsidiary) launched a RM300 million Paint Shop 3 facility in Kulim, Kedah, doubling annual painted vehicle body capacity from 50,000 to 100,000 units. The facility features 32 painting/sealant robots, a fully automated PTED line, a Cartridge Bell System enabling sub-10-second colour changes across 27 variants, and a three-coat one-bake process that cuts CO2 emissions by ~60%.

Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025 with 725-868 million lifetime installs and 70 million daily active users, is getting an ad-free version called Block Blast!+ on Apple Arcade starting September 3. Downloads have fallen from a late-2024 peak of nearly 50 million per month, suggesting the title is maturing and making it a candidate for Apple's $6.99/month subscription service.

Cloudflare's 2026 H1 data shows media, production, and publishing was the most DDoS-targeted sector at 14.2% of all attacks, driven by wars in Ukraine and Iran plus the FIFA World Cup. Media saw nearly 4x the attacks of the second-most-targeted sector (gambling), with government entities jumping from 29th to 9th most targeted after the US-Iran war began.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Oct 13-15, San Francisco) about Rivian's R2 launch (~$58K SUV), a roadmap to Level 4 autonomy by 2028, and his humanoid robotics company Mind Robotics, which raised $900M this year with Rivian as shareholder and launch customer. The article is primarily a conference promotion.

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FlightAware is suing prediction market platform Kalshi for allegedly using FlightAware's real-time flight data and branding to host flight cancellation betting markets without authorization. FlightAware claims Kalshi continued displaying its data and name even after being told to stop, and argues these markets could be manipulated to interfere with flights, posing safety risks.

AMD highlighted that its Ryzen 5 5500, an $80 DDR4-based CPU, briefly topped Amazon's CPU best-seller list, outselling the newer 9800X3D. The chip remains a top seller amid an ongoing memory crunch that has driven up DDR5 prices.

Japan-based Kyoto Fusioneering, which has raised $121M, is building a prototype fuel-breeding device called Unity-3 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with U.S. DOE and Tennessee state grants. The device tests a breeding blanket using liquid lithium to simultaneously harvest heat and generate tritium fuel for fusion reactors, and the company is relocating its U.S. headquarters to Oak Ridge.

The trycua/cua project published a blog post on using GPU passthrough in macOS VMs to accelerate llama.cpp-based LLM inference on Apple Silicon. The post details the technical approach for passing Apple GPU resources through to a virtualized macOS environment.

Intel announced a $20 billion common stock offering at $95 per share to fund AI compute demand, with shares falling 4% pre-market. The company highlighted physical AI, purpose-built silicon, and advanced packaging as growth areas, while Goldman Sachs estimates megacap tech capex will hit $765 billion in 2026 and $1.2 trillion in 2027.

US cyber agencies warn that Gunra ransomware-as-a-service is exploiting known Fortinet authentication bypass flaws (CVE-2024-55591 and CVE-2025-24472) to breach critical infrastructure. The group uses double-extortion and a Linux variant capable of 100 parallel encryption threads, targeting organizations globally.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a plan for Wall Street firms—including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, and Brookfield—to finance AI infrastructure by securitizing AI revenue streams, moving beyond the current model where big tech companies fund the AI buildout from their own balance sheets. KKR's head of digital infrastructure Waldemar Szlezak described it as dividing and selling the risk of AI revenue streams.

Bumble has removed its signature women-message-first rule, now allowing anyone in a match to send the first message. The app also extended the response window from 24 to 72 hours. Bumble's own survey data shows 66% of women preferred men sending the first message, framing the change as responding to user demand rather than abandoning its mission.