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Impact Vector: Technology — 126 episodes

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Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the website instead, in Australia’s first known autonomous — 2026-08-17

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Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update — 2026-08-16

3

A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call — 2026-08-15

4

Cl0p claims a mass hack of Shell, Philips, and dozens more — 2026-08-14

5

AI compute becomes a tradable commodity on 5 October — 2026-08-13

6

Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine — 2026-08-12

7

Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms — 2026-08-11

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Meta's 'open source' Muse Glimmer model can run on a single computer — 2026-08-10

9

How to use ChatGPT's new, more natural Voice Mode for conversations — 2026-08-09

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists — 2026-08-08

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SK Hynix pledges $38 billion to build two new DRAM and NAND factories — 2026-08-07

12

Adobe's new ChatGPT plugin brings 70 of its tools to OpenAI's chatbot — 2026-08-06

13

Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent — 2026-08-05

14

Anthropic signs a $10bn compute deal with a week-old cloud startup — 2026-08-04

15

A two-year-old battery startup just hit $13bn by turning American homes into grid capacity — 2026-08-03

16

How to sideload Android APKs on your Chromebook — 2026-08-02

17

Cyberattacks hit water facilities in seven states across the US — 2026-08-01

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CISA warns hackers are increasingly targeting US water systems after Minnesota attack — 2026-07-31

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Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up — 2026-07-30

20

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services — 2026-07-29

21

Meta and BlackRock form a $14bn venture to build an El Paso AI data centre — 2026-07-28

22

Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield — 2026-07-27

23

Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to — 2026-07-26

24

OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says — 2026-07-25

25

Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging — 2026-07-24

26

OpenAI plans a $30bn Georgia data centre, and a charm offensive to match — 2026-07-23

27

Hackers stole Estée Lauder staff’s bank and health data — 2026-07-22

28

Hackers are mass-exploiting two WordPress flaws, and AI found the way in — 2026-07-21

29

Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days — 2026-07-20

30

Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot — 2026-07-19

31

The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs — 2026-07-18

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AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now — 2026-07-17

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Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs — 2026-07-16

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India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand — 2026-07-15

35

New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake — 2026-07-14

36

South Korea flags a record $530bn budget, paid for by the AI chip boom — 2026-07-13

37

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place — 2026-07-12

38

The US agency that defends federal networks did not have its own incident response playbook when it got — 2026-07-11

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The UK just declared Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle ‘critical’ to its financial system — 2026-07-10

40

Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity — 2026-07-09

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OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business — 2026-07-08

42

The Supreme Court lets Texas turn Apple and Google into the internet’s age gate — 2026-07-07

43

Tesla brings its Robotaxi to Miami, and drops the safety monitor — 2026-07-06

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NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul — 2026-07-05

45

Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI memory demand — 2026-07-04

46

Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the — 2026-07-03

47

A cheap Chinese AI model is closing in on Anthropic and OpenAI — 2026-07-02

48

“BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords — 2026-07-01

49

UK regulator proposes letting developers steer users off Apple and Google payments — 2026-06-30

50

South Korea bets $880bn to win the AI era — 2026-06-29

51

Google is rationing Gemini access to Meta because it cannot provide enough compute — 2026-06-28

52

NASA tests an in-orbit refueling device for deep space missions — 2026-06-27

53

Malaysia intercepts $13M AI chip shipment bound for re-export — 2026-06-26

54

IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology — 2026-06-25

55

US government reportedly urging Meta to share its AI models — 2026-06-24

56

MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it — 2026-06-23

57

JD.com says robots will replace its 700,000 couriers — 2026-06-22

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Amazon says human-in-the-loop AI oversight is failing because humans stop paying attention — 2026-06-21

59

ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance — 2026-06-20

60

GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry — 2026-06-19

61

Attackers cracked 75,000 Fortinet firewalls with old passwords, not a zero-day — 2026-06-18

62

Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient — 2026-06-17

63

SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion — 2026-06-16

64

Schneider Electric and Foxconn partner on AI data-centre infrastructure — 2026-06-15

65

Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark — 2026-06-14

66

US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall — 2026-06-13

67

Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam — 2026-06-12

68

Waymo made a virtual human driver to improve its robotaxis — 2026-06-10

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Apple’s real AI story isn’t Siri: it’s a 20-billion-parameter model that runs from your iPhone’s flash — 2026-06-09

70

Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain — 2026-06-08

71

Trump signs memo putting ‘most advanced AI’ into military hands and banning vendors from pulling the plug — 2026-06-07

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Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack — 2026-06-06

73

NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip could give Windows its true Apple Silicon moment — 2026-06-05

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Amazon's new Proteus warehouse robot is fully autonomous — 2026-06-04

75

SpaceX fixes IPO at $135 a share for a $1.75tn valuation and a record listing — 2026-06-03

76

Microsoft Build 2026: Live updates from Satya Nadella's keynote including Windows, Copilot and more — 2026-06-02

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Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options — 2026-06-01

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SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France — 2026-05-31

79

Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution — 2026-05-30

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OpenAI gives Japan’s megabanks its newest model for cyber defence — 2026-05-29

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Intel's Arc G-Series chips will power a new generation of gaming handhelds — 2026-05-28

82

SpaceX wins a $2.29bn Space Force contract for the Golden Dome backbone — 2026-05-27

83

SpaceX wants the Pentagon to pay five times more for Starlink in the Iran war — 2026-05-26

84

The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding — 2026-05-25

85

AI is killing the cheap smartphone — 2026-05-24

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Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods — 2026-05-23

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SpaceX will launch Starship V3 for its first test flight today — 2026-05-22

88

AMD commits more than $10bn to Taiwan’s AI ecosystem with ASE, SPIL and Helios as the visible deliverables — 2026-05-21

89

Google announces Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator that goes after Canva on precision editing — 2026-05-20

90

Meta’s $200 billion Hyperion data centre in Louisiana is the most expensive private infrastructure — 2026-05-19

91

Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook — 2026-05-18

92

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake — 2026-05-17

93

Four OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, escalate privileges, and plant backdoors through the — 2026-05-16

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Security researchers, aided by Anthropic's Mythos, claim to have breached macOS — 2026-05-15

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Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake — 2026-05-14

96

Family sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT advice led to accidental overdose — 2026-05-13

97

NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data — 2026-05-12

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Europe’s cumulative EV investment passes €200bn — 2026-05-11

99

NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment — 2026-05-10

100

Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities — 2026-05-09

101

NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal — 2026-05-08

102

The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school — 2026-05-07

103

SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn — 2026-05-06

104

QuantWare lands €152m to build the world’s largest open-architecture quantum processor fab in Delft — 2026-05-05

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-05-04

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Amazon’s best quarter in years was half-built on a $16.8 billion paper gain from Anthropic — 2026-05-03

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-05-02

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-05-01

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-30

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-28

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-27

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-23

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-22

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-21

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-20

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-19

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-17

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Impact Vector: Technology — 2026-04-12