Cybersecurity
The Phone Call That Beats Your Company's MFA
Google traced a vishing campaign that phoned staff at Apollo, Blackstone and KKR, harvesting MFA codes live and netting 10 million dollars in bitcoin.
All news
Law & Regulation
New Mexico Turns a Meta Fine Into a Design Mandate
A New Mexico judge ruled Meta created a public nuisance and ordered a 567 million dollar fund plus a 90-hour monthly usage cap for teens, enforced for five years.
Decisions
Canva Cut Its Own Forecast to Fix AI Costs
Canva cut its 2026 growth forecast from 30 to 20 percent after AI serving costs ran too high, then cut per-task AI cost 90 percent by building models in-house.
Energy
125 GW Queue Forces UK Data Centres to Pay Up
Ofgem proposes a GBP 237,500 to 712,500 per megawatt fee to stop speculative data centre projects clogging Britain's 125 GW grid queue. What it means for operators and investors.
Infrastructure
$16.8B Terafab Deal Tops Entire EU Chips Act
Tesla and SpaceX's $16.8 billion Terafab chip plant in Texas, with a path to $119 billion, already outweighs the EU Chips Act's entire EUR 43 billion programme.
Artificial Intelligence
Shopify Says AI Search Tripled Its Merchant Orders
Shopify's Q2 2026 earnings show AI-driven storefront traffic and orders tripling year over year, without traditional search shrinking, a rare additive signal for e-commerce.
Cybersecurity
Infiltrated: Inside North Korea's Hacking Network
A Black Hat researcher spent 22 months inside a North Korean hacking group's systems, exposing 1,640 breached companies and a fake-recruiter attack vector.
Artificial Intelligence
4,000 Apps in 30 Days: Cloudflare's AI Wager
Cloudflare open-sourced Cloudflare OS on August 5, 2026: 4,000 staff-built AI apps in 30 days, and the identity-based access model EU and UK IT buyers will adopt next.
Energy
NuScale Revenue Falls 99%, Cash Tops $1.9 Billion
NuScale Power's Q2 2026 revenue collapsed to $0.1 million after its Romania engineering contract ended, even as cash reserves swelled to $1.9 billion. The TVA deal remains unsigned.
Consumer Tech
Geely E2 Prices EUR 19,490, Beats BYD in Belgium
Geely opens Belgian reservations for the E2 at an introductory EUR 19,490, undercutting the BYD Dolphin Surf. What China's best-selling car means for EU and UK fleet buyers.
Gaming
Coffee Stain Cuts Fellowship Team by 57%
Coffee Stain Group's Q1 FY2026/27 report shows net sales up 37% to SEK 253 million, but the live-service title Fellowship loses more than half its team after weak engagement.
Cybersecurity
No Human Chose the Exploit, CISA Sets 2 Days
CISA added three actively exploited flaws to its KEV catalog on 2026-08-05 after Unit 42 traced attacks to DeepSeek-powered autonomous exploit selection across 460+ organizations. Federal deadline: 2026-08-07.
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The Operator Brief
One considered note on infrastructure, governance, and measurement, most mornings. No theory.