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• Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts

  02-09-2026 19:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation detection is described as FDA cleared, and EU medical device rules require a separate conformity assessment that American clearance does not […]
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• Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits

  04-09-2026 00:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity, with Denmark holding roughly 60GW […]
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• Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world

  03-09-2026 23:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an […]
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• The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility

  03-09-2026 23:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  According to an analysis published by The Hacker News, manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the European Union will face a September 11 deadline under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to notify regulators within 24 hours after learning that a vulnerability is being actively exploited, with a fuller report due within 72 hours. […]
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• The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)

  03-09-2026 22:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lose because the dashboard fills with findings nobody has proven. Astra Security has provided a comprehensive State of Pentesting 2026 report which built on 6.8 million findings across 8,000-plus […]
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• Top Rippling alternatives for mid-market companies

  03-09-2026 21:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefits, device management, and app provisioning each arrive as separate modules with their own per-employee fees. For a people team that wants a strong […]
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• A Tesla-style screen can modernise an older Silverado. The hard part is making everything else work

  03-09-2026 20:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as graceful. Infotainment systems specific to vehicles are becoming a software solution between outdated hardware and new demands. A pickup truck manufactured in 2007 and one manufactured in 2026 may have a similar badge, yet […]
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• Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn and promises to leave it open

  03-09-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the ten-year-old company at roughly 86 times […]
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• Coworker.ai launches OM2, an organizational memory layer promising to slash enterprise AI token burn by 9x

  03-09-2026 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To make the AI useful, companies are forced into a costly, repetitive cycle: scraping thousands of documents, Slack threads, and CRM entries, and force-feeding them into the prompt window for context. It is a brute-force […]
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• From One Corridor to Many: Indonesia as the Blueprint for Asia’s Stablecoin Future

  03-09-2026 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Across Asia, issuers are bringing local currencies onchain, regulators are establishing digital asset frameworks, and financial institutions are exploring stablecoins for payments, treasury, and cross-border settlement. Issuance, however, is only the first layer of a functioning financial network. Moving local currencies between countries requires banking connectivity, institutional liquidity, foreign exchange execution, compliance, and settlement infrastructure. […]
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• Belkin brings semi-solid-state batteries to a $70 power bank

  03-09-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  The car industry keeps calling this battery chemistry a decade away. Belkin has just put it in a $69.99 power bank. The company announced three product lines at IFA 2026 in Berlin on Thursday. They arrived as three separate releases, covering portable power, trackers and chargers, and audio. The headline part is the UltraCharge Pro […]
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• Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone

  03-09-2026 12:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  A Berlin company has won the world’s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Business Wire. Chief executive Jonas Muff set out the reasoning in a longer post the […]
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• Texas Republicans are running against data centres, and both Senate candidates want the same water rules

  03-09-2026 12:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can regulate them most aggressively, a shift that Reuters reports has put Big Tech on notice in the state that hosts more data centres than any other. The change is showing up on the ballot. Data centres […]
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• Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way

  03-09-2026 12:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One number in the release went the other way, and it is the one that looks furthest into the future. Remaining performance obligations, the contracted revenue Snowflake has booked but not yet recognised, came in at […]
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• Apple faces a £2bn UK claim over App Tracking Transparency, brought by a former CMA official

  03-09-2026 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is facing a £2bn claim in London over the privacy prompt that reshaped mobile advertising. The case, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of UK app developers, argues that App Tracking Transparency polices everyone except Apple. The claim was reported by Reuters, which values it at $2.7bn. Bringing it is Ann Pope, a […]
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• The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport

  03-09-2026 11:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts, medical supplies and cans of water. Its route took it over people’s houses. Elroy Air said on Wednesday it had completed the first uncrewed autonomous flights under a federal programme. That programme exists to fold […]
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• The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it

  03-09-2026 11:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company […]
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• Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, with a safety driver in every car

  03-09-2026 11:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve began carrying passengers on Thursday in a fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es, each one supervised by a licensed driver who can take over. Uber owns and operates the vehicles while Wayve, the British company […]
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• The first thing Apple’s new CEO did was rename a Canadian lake

  03-09-2026 11:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States. Mark Gurman reported the change for Bloomberg on Tuesday evening. […]
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• ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it

  03-09-2026 10:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  ByteDance has landed a $29.6bn loan, the second-largest in Asia this year and roughly three times what the TikTok owner borrowed offshore in 2024. Banks put in more than $30bn of orders for a facility that started life at $20bn. The terms were first reported by Bloomberg. Citigroup and JPMorgan are coordinating the deal, which runs […]
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• UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media

  03-09-2026 10:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the countries surveyed. The findings come from “Through Children’s Eyes: How Digital Technologies Enable Child Sexual Abuse”, […]
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• CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout

  03-09-2026 10:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week’s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partnership, announced at the company’s Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas, has two halves. CrowdStrike […]
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• A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking

  03-09-2026 09:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it. The Cyber Weapon Index, published on Wednesday, scored nine American […]
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• A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions

  03-09-2026 09:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in a dozen US jurisdictions and from Ontario, Canada. The company detected the activity in its cloud environment on 30 June, according to Reuters, which is […]
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• JD Power says 35% of passenger screens have never been used

  03-09-2026 02:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3 problems per 100 vehicles. Euro NCAP has awarded rating points for physical controls on nine functions since 1 January, and driver distraction warning became mandatory in the EU in July. A third of owners […]
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• OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability

  03-09-2026 01:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the July incident in which an agent breached another company. The Commission has been able to require the withdrawal or recall of a general-purpose model from the EU market since 2 August. OpenAI has told two House Democrats […]
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• Microsoft Fabric reaches the US government cloud, with general availability from October

  03-09-2026 01:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft has launched its Fabric data platform in Government Community Cloud High on public preview, with general availability from 1 October, pitched at agentic AI workloads. Europe has no equivalent accredited tier, because its cloud certification scheme has been stuck since 2020 and lost its sovereignty requirement in 2024. Microsoft has launched its Fabric data […]
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• CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains

  03-09-2026 01:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting autonomy from human-in-the-loop approval to fully autonomous execution. NIS2 starts its 24-hour reporting clock from becoming aware of a significant incident, and holds management bodies liable for the measures they approve. CrowdStrike says AI agents now run attacks across several systems […]
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• A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work

  03-09-2026 01:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three American antitrust cases largely behavioural. The European Commission fined Google €2.95B last September and said only divestment of part of its services would address the same conduct. A US federal judge has ruled that […]
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• Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says

  03-09-2026 01:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely open-source general-purpose models from part of Article 53, but that exemption does not apply to models classified as carrying systemic risk. Meta has released […]
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