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Musician Jason Isbell is heading a group of artists filing suit against AI music generator Suno. The lawsuit departs from typical AI copyright claims, instead accusing Suno of misappropriating and exploiting the artists' identities and personas.
Microsoft is shifting from its three-segment business reporting structure to two new categories: Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer. The company says the change reflects how artificial intelligence is reshaping its products and operations.
A stopgap government funding bill passed by the House and expected to be signed by President Trump includes language, inserted by Senators Patty Murray and Susan Collins, that bars the Office of Management and Budget from enacting a rule letting political appointees decide which research grants get funded or canceled. The freeze only lasts until the funding measure expires on December 11, but it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support—90-6 in the Senate and 370-48 in the House.
Director Dave Green joined actors Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor, and Eric Bauza to talk about how the Looney Tunes hybrid film resolves Wile E. Coyote's storyline. The team reflected on the character's fate and what it means for the movie's conclusion.
A new United Nations report finds that global warming is on track to exceed the 1.5°C threshold established by the Paris Agreement much sooner than previously expected, potentially within just a few years. The finding undercuts the most optimistic projections for limiting climate change that policymakers have relied on for years.
VentureBeat's July VB Pulse survey of 170 AI infrastructure buyers found 39.4% plan to evaluate non-Nvidia accelerators like AWS Trainium, Google TPU, AMD Instinct or Intel Gaudi over the next year, versus 25.3% who plan to evaluate Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell GPUs. Despite this evaluation gap, the share of respondents expecting to switch platforms within three months actually dropped from 38.3% to 28.8%, even as usage and infrastructure activity rose across the board.
House Democrats are preparing oversight plans for 2026, including using appropriations power to pressure Trump aides and family members to comply with subpoenas if they retake the majority. Targets reportedly include funding for Trump's West Wing renovations and a proposed triumphal arch in Washington. Rep. Jamie Raskin said Congress controls the purse strings for federal buildings and can block further alterations to the White House.
Microsoft announced it will begin reporting Azure cloud revenue every quarter, ending years of disclosing only growth percentages. The move accompanies a restructuring that reduces the company's operating segments from three to two, its first such change since 2015.
SonicWall disclosed two vulnerabilities in its SMA 1000 series appliances: a maximum-severity SSRF flaw (CVE-2026-83548) in the user-facing Work Place portal and an OS command injection bug (CVE-2026-83549) in the admin console. SonicWall's security team confirmed active exploitation in the wild and urged customers to patch immediately, while researchers at Rapid7 noted the two bugs can be chained together for unauthenticated remote code execution.
Nintendo released Version 4.0.0 for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, adding an eight-player split-screen mode exclusive to the Switch 2, up from the previous four-player cap. The update also brings CameraPlay support for USB webcams during multiplayer, compatibility with higher-resolution TVs, and faster loading times on the newer console.
Vidact is a new build-time compiler that analyzes React function components and generates plain JavaScript DOM manipulation code instead of shipping a runtime virtual DOM. Component bodies execute only once at mount, and subsequent setState calls update only the specific text nodes and attributes tied to that state. The project is in beta, supports a documented subset of React 19, and rejects unsupported code patterns during compilation.
KrebsOnSecurity uncovered a new dark web service called Nexus offering more than 153 million driver's licenses and other government IDs for sale, including infrared and ultraviolet scans that could help forge counterfeit cards capable of passing hologram checks. The reporter found his own license, along with those of his mother, an FBI assistant director, and several security researchers, all apparently sourced from rental car and dispensary transactions.