Monthly Archives: August 2025

Lyft misses quarterly revenue estimates on competition, weak US travel demand

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Upwork is buying its way into corporate staffing beyond freelancers

The company will merge Bubty and Ascen with its existing enterprise business to form a separate entity later this year.

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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit clears regulatory hurdle, safety probe

As part of the move, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed a 2023 probe into Zoox’s self-certification process.

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Simple Prompting Hack for OpenAI’s New Open-Weight Models

TechnologyAdvice’s Grant Harvey shares a “dead-simple prompting hack” for OpenAI’s gpt-oss models, as well as several related developer guides.

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Black Hat 2025: Security Researcher Unpacks Cybercrime’s Evolution… and How AI Is Changing the Game

From prank viruses to profit-driven cybercrime, Mikko Hypponen explains how today’s malware is targeted, professional, and all about money.

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Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Google denies AI is impacting search across the web, saying only “some” sites have suffered.

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A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

The newly launched app, now trending on Apple’s App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs.

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

A federal jury found crypto developer Roman Storm guilty of operating an unlicensed crypto business, but cleared him of sanctions violations and deadlocked on a money laundering charge.

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Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety

The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump’s second term as president—and never published the results.

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NVIDIA Takes Firm Stance Against Kill Switches & Backdoors in AI Chips

The statement comes as both US and Chinese authorities probe the lucrative global AI chip business, which NVIDIA dominates.

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