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Bam! A detailed, technical description of Telegram's own back door into users' accounts and devices

Telegram Desktop: one-click account takeover via IPC injection. An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop's single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included.

ZCode uploads your entire git history, and only Z.ai holds the key

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...whenever the app is logged in, it silently packages the user’s entire workspace - complete .git history, LFS asset cache, reflogs, and global app configs - encrypts it, and uploads the archive to Aliyun OSS, Alibaba Cloud’s object storage.

Amazon Says Cloud Infrastructure In Bahrain, UAE 'Beyond Saving'

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Engineers still salvaging what they can from the two other battered zones & across the wider Emirati region.

Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

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Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.

Ex-Facebook security exec slams Meta $17bn no-trial pay-off

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The controversial settlement with US states effectively prevented the court from assessing widely-held accusations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict minors

OpenAI Stops Providing AI Models To Cursor Amid Feud With Elon Musk

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SpaceX recently acquired Cursor, to which OpenAI currently supplies AI models...

Who Is Legally Liable When An AI Agent Goes Rogue?

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If your personal AI agent goes rogue and causes harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable?

US judge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting

Technology.

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted unlawfully when it designated AI company Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk, blocking the government from enforcing the blacklist.

Federal Court Dismisses Musk's X Lawsuit Against New York Law Forcing Platforms To Define Speech

Markets & Trading.

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"[T]he First Amendment poses no obstacle to New York’s law," the judge wrote...

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

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Alain Pannetrat, August 24, 2026

Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts working from spare rooms, garages, and tiny workshops.

Network effects favor the largest

The Great Walkback: Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong On AI's Economic Timeline

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Even the CEO of the world's most hyped AI company now concedes the economic disruption he promised hasn't arrived on schedule - because human habit doesn't bend to a fundraising calendar.