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The Typhoon Missed Japan. The Rain Didn’t.
Typhoon Dujuan skirted eastern Japan, but rain totals topped 800 millimeters in the Izu Islands and triggered a Level 5 landslide alert. The storm shows why distance from the eye is a poor measure of danger.
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Alibaba’s AI Chip Bets on a 20-Gigawatt Cloud
Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900 chip is the sharp end of a much larger plan: a vertically integrated AI stack and more than 20 gigawatts of global data-center capacity by 2032. The ambition is clear; independent performance evidence is not yet here.
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Meta’s Muse Zero-Day Hands Malware the Keys
A local flaw in Meta’s Muse Mac app can redirect dictation traffic and expose the agent’s authentication token, turning limited malware into a route toward files, messages, camera access and connected services.
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Oura’s $2.2B IPO Leaves $6M for Growth
Oura and its shareholders may sell up to $2.2 billion of stock, but the smart-ring maker expects only about $6.2 million of its net proceeds to remain for ordinary corporate work after equity-award taxes.
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El Niño Is Already Squeezing Asia’s Food Systems
A very strong El Niño is shifting rainfall as Asian reservoirs, fisheries and farms come under pressure. The forecast is global, but the useful response is local and early.
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Grok 4.7 Is Cheap by the Token, Not the Task
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 improves coding-agent performance without raising its per-token price. Early independent tests show why buyers still need to measure total task cost—and the harness wrapped around the model.
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Amazon Slammed the Door on Meta’s Shopping Bot
Amazon has blocked Meta’s Muse agent from shopping on its store, citing undisclosed automation and account-security risks. The dispute exposes the missing rules for agents that browse and buy as users.
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The Typhoon Missed Japan. The Rain Didn’t.
Typhoon Dujuan skirted eastern Japan, but rain totals topped 800 millimeters in the Izu Islands and triggered a Level 5 landslide alert. The storm shows why distance from the eye is a poor measure of danger.
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Europe’s Tokenized Money Bridge Is Open
Pontes now lets tokenized securities settle against central-bank money, and the ECB plans to test it with part of its own portfolio. The bridge is real; useful traffic, interoperable markets and lower costs remain to be proved.
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Google’s €403 Million Fine Took Six Years
Ireland’s privacy regulator found unlawful, unfair, opaque and overlong handling across three Google location systems. The fine is large; the six-year enforcement delay and unpublished decision are the harder accountability problem.
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The FAA’s Backup Fiber Was Already Broken
A failed primary circuit and a broken backup fiber forced ground stops across major Northeast airports. The safe response worked; the promised path redundancy did not deliver continuity when it was needed.
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Paramount’s Warner Deal Is Moving Behind Closed Doors
Paramount reportedly settled the state antitrust case blocking its Warner Bros. acquisition, removing the largest state-led obstacle to the merger. The public still has not seen the consent decree, and output promises are not a substitute for preserving competition.
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ZCode Open-Sourced the Evidence After Uploading Repos
Z.ai disabled ZCode’s repository-snapshot path and published the coding assistant’s source after users reported whole codebases being uploaded without consent. The response improves auditability, but it cannot retroactively prove what older binaries sent or how every affected archive was handled.
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