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Robotics & Drones
Front Page Archive August 2026
Cybersecurity1,277 words6 min read
FBI, CISA, and South Korea Warn a Conti-Derived Ransomware Gang Is Eating VPN Gateways for Breakfast
The FBI and South Korea's police force are warning that a ransomware operation built on leaked Conti source code has quietly become one of the busiest extortion crews in the business. In a joint advisory released Monday, the agencies…
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Cybersecurity
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Robotics & Drones
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Semiconductors
August 2026
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,024 words5 min read
Solid-State Battery Summit Opens in Chicago as Samsung SDI, Solid Power, and CATL Race to Mass-Produce the First Commercial Cells
The Solid-State Battery Summit opened in Chicago on Monday, and the room was full of companies that suddenly sound less speculative than they did a year ago. Samsung SDI is already talking…
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EV
EV1,308 words6 min read
Mitsubishi Confirms ASX VR-e Electric Crossover for Australia, Its First Battery EV in Over a Decade
Mitsubishi has confirmed the ASX VR-e, its first fully electric car for Australia in more than a decade, will reach local showrooms in the fourth quarter of this year. The compact crossover…
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IoT
IoT1,435 words7 min read
Hostile SIM Cards Can Hijack Phones, EV Chargers, and IoT Gear, Birmingham Researchers Show
A malicious SIM card can take over a smartphone, an EV charger, or an industrial IoT module using commands that are written into the cellular standard itself. Researchers at the University…
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AI
AI1,357 words7 min read
Meta's Muse Glimmer Puts a 30-Billion-Parameter Agent on One Consumer GPU
Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter AI model that runs on a single consumer graphics card, and promised to open the weights of its flagship Muse Spark 1.2 in the…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,316 words6 min read
Cloudflare's Revenue Acceleration Hinges on the Web Turning Into a Machine-to-Machine Network
Cloudflare posted its fastest quarterly growth in years on Thursday, and the numbers point at something bigger than one company's sales curve: the internet's traffic mix is tilting from…
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity1,352 words7 min read
Feds Must Patch Progress LoadMaster by Today as Hackers Log 792 Exploit Attempts Against the Edge Appliance
US agencies have until the end of Monday, August 10, to close a critical hole in Progress Kemp LoadMaster, a network appliance that sits in front of thousands of corporate applications…
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Robotics & Drones
Robotics & Drones1,536 words7 min read
HII Puts Up to $900 Million Behind Welding Robots to Build Navy Warships Faster
HII Puts Up to $900 Million Behind Welding Robots to Build Navy Warships Faster America's largest military shipbuilder is betting big on robots it believes can take on the hardest jobs in a…
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Semiconductors
Semiconductors1,295 words6 min read
Taiwan Revives Longtan Science Park Expansion That Could Host Five TSMC Fabs for 2nm Chips
Taiwan's government has restarted work on the long-delayed Longtan Science Park expansion in Taoyuan, a project that could clear the way for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to build…
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EV
EV1,289 words6 min read
Smart #2: Mercedes and Geely Bring Back the Tiny Two-Seater, This Time as a 300 km Electric City Car
The Smart brand built its name on a car barely longer than a parking space. Now, after cancelling the Fortwo in 2024, the Mercedes-Benz and Geely joint venture is bringing that idea back as…