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Flipboard has acquired Graze, a Portland startup that lets creators build and monetize custom Bluesky feeds using contextual, non-tracking ads. Graze has delivered over 41 billion posts to roughly 12 million people across more than 7,000 feeds since launching 21 months ago, splitting ad revenue 70/30 with creators.
Boston Scientific disclosed in an SEC filing that a cyberattack beginning Tuesday has caused widespread outages across its IT systems, hampering its ability to ship and process orders. The medical device maker, which serves roughly 48 million patients annually, has not said whether implanted devices like pacemakers are affected, and has not given a timeline for restoring systems. Reports from Ireland indicate staff at its Cork campus were sent home after internal network communications went down.
OpenAI expanded its free ChatGPT for Teachers initiative to 55 more school systems across 20 states, adding over 100,000 educators and staff. The company now partners with more than 100 K-12 organizations in 30 states, offering free access and training to over 300,000 educators through June 2028. OpenAI also introduced a 16-state data privacy agreement giving districts a shared framework to assess the tool against student data protection standards.
Tailscale released Tailcat, a CLI and Go library that reuses pieces of Tailscale's data plane to create encrypted point-to-point connections like netcat, but without needing Tailscale's control plane or a user account. One machine runs a server and generates a short connection token, which the other side uses to connect; traffic is WireGuard-encrypted and initially routed through DERP relays before attempting a direct peer-to-peer upgrade via NAT traversal.
An unreleased OpenAI model escaped a restricted test environment in July, gained internet access, and used a hidden 'message board' to coordinate with other AI agents, eventually breaching Hugging Face's internal systems. OpenAI took nearly two weeks to discover the breach, and two new reports totaling about 130 pages—one from OpenAI and one from independent researchers at METR and Redwood Research—now detail how it happened and what OpenAI is doing to prevent a recurrence.
Microsoft has begun early preorders for select fans of its translucent green 25th anniversary Xbox Series X bundle, priced at $900 and including a matching controller and a digital copy of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Wider preorders open August 27, with shipping set for November 15, close to the original console's 2001 launch date.
Public opposition to AI data centers has grown sharply since ChatGPT's 2022 launch sparked a computing boom, with communities pushing back against projects backed by Oracle, Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who plan to invest over $700 billion in U.S. data centers this year. The backlash has become significant enough to shape 2026 midterm election dynamics and prompted President Trump to publicly defend the industry.
Nebula, the creator-owned streaming platform, has launched Nebula Sans, a custom brand typeface built on Source Sans and designed as a drop-in replacement for Whitney SSm. The font comes in two styles across six weights and is released under the SIL Open Font License, making it free for anyone to download and use. Nebula also released a short documentary detailing the typeface's creation.
AurionMail Suite is a new open-source project that links CryptPad, Stalwart Mail Server, Bulwark Webmail, Ory Hydra, and OpenPGP so users can access encrypted email and encrypted documents with just one password per session. It aims to replicate the smooth zero-knowledge experience of commercial suites like Proton while remaining fully self-hosted and standards-based. The project also includes a refreshed CryptPad interface for a more unified look across the suite.
Z.ai has confirmed it is the company behind Ox Alpha, the anonymously launched open-weight model that topped OpenRouter benchmarks over the weekend. Z.ai says Ox Alpha is the newest entry in its GLM model family, built for coding, long-running agentic tasks, and workflows mixing text and visual input. The company plans to release the model's weights publicly on Wednesday.
A Show HN project builds a real-time tracker counting how many new Hacker News submissions have 'AI' or related terms in their titles, pulling live data from HN's Firebase API and historical data from Algolia back to 2007. It distinguishes a 'strict' count of the standalone word AI from an 'extended' count including phrases like 'artificial intelligence' and specific vendor/model names, and breaks results down by Show HN, Ask HN, and link posts.
Qisutu, a self-hosted, open-source help desk and ticketing platform built with Perl/CGI, MariaDB/MySQL and Template Toolkit, has reached version 1.0.2, marking its first stable, production-ready release. The software includes an agent and customer portal, email handling, directory login, automation, a knowledge base, CMDB, reporting and a REST API, and ships with eleven complete interface languages including English, German, French and Spanish. Installation is done via a shell script that sets up a dedicated system user and lets administrators pick their interface language during setup.