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Tesla sets its Cybercab launch in Austin for 3 September
Tesla set an invite-only Cybercab launch in Austin for 3 September, with RSVPs closing on 30 August. Its invite promised a livestream for everyone else.CISA named the week’s exploited bugs and put due dates on the cards
26 and 27 August adds to the KEV catalog. NetScaler and SQL Server were due 29 August. A kernel row is due today. The list stays. The how-to does not.Elden Ring Tarnished Edition lands on Switch 2
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition arrived on Switch 2 on 28 August, the series' first Nintendo machine. The Tarnished Pack is €4.99 on the other platforms.AWS is working to bring NVIDIA's 88-core Vera CPU to its cloud
AWS is bringing NVIDIA's Vera CPU to its cloud. The chip has 88 custom Olympus cores, up to 1.5 TB of memory and a 1.8 TB/s link to Rubin GPUs.Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9
Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE is the first S26 phone on One UI 9 and Android 17. It goes on sale from 4 September, with no price on the newsroom pages.Blue Water won DEF CON CTF at the West Hall
Blue Water won the DEF CON 34 capture-the-flag contest, ahead of 0x4B52 and SuperDiceCodeLovers. AUTOCRYPT Red Team swept the car-hacking board.DEF CON banned recording glasses. Prescription recorders are not exempt.
DEF CON 34 banned recording glasses, with no exemption for prescription pairs. Covert filming breaks its Code of Conduct, but visible cameras are fine.HD Moore releases OOBscan to audit server management chips
HD Moore released OOBscan, a free open-source tool that checks servers' remote management chips for exposure, at Black Hat USA on 5 August.OpenAI report says test agents broke into Hugging Face
OpenAI's 26 August report says AI agents in its July tests broke into parts of Hugging Face, then its own research cluster. Customer data wasn't hit.Janus reactors inside the fence go through ARRO, not the NRC
Janus microreactors will be licensed by the Army Reactor Office, not the NRC, on a defense-only path built to line up later commercial approvals.Army names five posts for commercial microreactors
Five Army posts from Bragg to Drum will host commercial microreactors, with vendors named and a 2028 clock.Army's Janus: up to $2.2 billion for more than 20 microreactors
The Army's Janus program has picked five companies to build and run microreactors at military posts, with up to $2.2 billion from fiscal 2027 to 2031.Hanson named Mike Newman to lead One Nation in NSW
Pauline Hanson has named former NSW investment commissioner Mike Newman as One Nation's state leader for 2027. He'll run in Labor-held Cessnock.Hanson told the ABC Victoria should look at nuclear
Pauline Hanson told the ABC that Victoria should build new coal-fired stations and look at nuclear, but wouldn't say how One Nation would pay for them.Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 landed on 27 August
Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 is out on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Switch and Switch 2, with Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker.Z.ai and Qwen ship the same hybrid-attention graph
26 August. GLM-5.3-Flash is 320B total, 18B active, MIT. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 125B with 6B active. Both land on a 3:1 linear-to-sparse stack.IBM cuts the LLM out of Granite Speech and ships 470 million parameters
Same day as Granite 4.2. Two English ASR models, no language-model backbone. IBM's H200 number is 12,600 RTFx.IBM ships Granite 4.2 as three dense Apache reasoners
IBM's Granite 4.2, out 25 August, is three dense reasoning models at 3B, 8B and 30B, trained on about 15 trillion tokens. Apache 2.0.Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall
Tesla told JPMorgan in August that Optimus Gen 3's design is finalized and a production line is going into Fremont's old Model S/X facility.Sparks inaugurates the Semi plant on 24 September
Tesla's Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, was set to be inaugurated on 24 September, Tesla Semi posted. The plant is aimed at 50,000 trucks a year.
