GoPro announced a merger with optical-photonics company Starman Optical, a deal valued at $285 million that will pay off GoPro's roughly $92 million in outstanding debt. Existing GoPro shareholders will retain about 10 percent ownership of the combined, still publicly traded company, which expects the deal to close by the end of 2026 pending shareholder and regulatory approval. Beyond its camera and subscription business, GoPro plans to expand into optical transceivers for AI infrastructure, along with defense, government, robotics and aerospace markets.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-01
Aesto LLC, which runs Aesto Health's data migration and archiving service for healthcare providers, revealed that an unauthorized actor accessed its AWS infrastructure between December 2 and 18, 2025. The breach, confirmed internally on May 26 after forensic review, exposed sensitive records for over 9.5 million people including Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and medical information tied to 29 healthcare clients such as VillageMD and Together Women's Health.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-01
T-Mobile is offering an unadvertised 'Super Essentials Saver' plan priced at $25 per month with AutoPay (or $30 without) for up to two lines. The plan is only available in person at Walmart locations and limited to customers opening new T-Mobile accounts, with no listing on the carrier's website or app.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-01
Dropbox notified users that attackers gained unauthorized access to their accounts between August 4 and 21, 2026, though the company says no files were confirmed viewed or downloaded. The breach stemmed from a weakness in Lenovo's identity verification process, which let attackers register Lenovo IDs tied to victims' email addresses without owning those inboxes, then use those IDs to log into linked Dropbox accounts.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-01
John Deere has introduced an AI-powered chatbot for farmers, alongside a restated set of data principles governing how the company handles farm information. The company reiterated that farmers retain control over their data, that it won't be sold, and that it is not used for commodity trading or speculation.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-01
Novocure disclosed to the SEC that attackers gained unauthorized access to its systems in mid-August, exposing over 1,400 U.S. patient ID records without names attached. Fewer than 50 patients in the western U.S. had identifying information and healthcare provider contact details compromised, and an unspecified number of employees also had contact information exposed. The company says its treatment devices and operations remain unaffected and it is assessing notification obligations.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-01
Philip Johnston, co-founder of the orbital data center company Starcloud, has joined other entrepreneurs to announce the 'Fermi Explorer' project, aiming to raise $15 million to build and launch a small spacecraft carrying a 1-kg payload toward Alpha Centauri. The stated goal is to have the probe reach that star system in under 80,000 years, testing assumptions behind the Fermi paradox about why humanity hasn't detected extraterrestrial civilizations.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-01
MediaTek stock jumped 10% on Tuesday following news that Nvidia will invest $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by the Taiwanese chipmaker. The deal deepens a partnership aimed at expanding MediaTek's presence in data center chips, extending a rally that has seen its shares nearly triple this year.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-01
Hackers are actively exploiting two recently disclosed PaperCut NG and MF vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, to bypass authentication and steal data from print management servers. PaperCut issued emergency fixes last week, but researchers at Defused say attackers are using the bypass to hijack the software's user-lookup function and dump database tables rather than pursue remote code execution as earlier reports suggested. Over 800 PaperCut servers remain exposed online according to Shadowserver, and PaperCut has not yet attributed the attacks or detailed post-compromise activity.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-01
Build American AI, a new group tied to the super PAC Leading the Future, plans a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin to build public support for local data centers. Leading the Future was seeded with over $50 million from investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and has mainly spent that money backing pro-AI candidates and opposing those skeptical of the technology.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-31
Brave has rolled out a new 'email aliases' tool in its browser that lets users generate disposable email addresses which forward messages to their real inbox. Users can create up to five free aliases by verifying their main email through Brave's settings, then right-clicking any email field on a website to generate and insert an alias.
cnet.com
· 2026-08-31
Pharmaceutical distributor McKesson confirmed hackers broke into several cloud-hosted accounts and stole data tied to its oncology and medical-surgical units. The ShinyHunters group told TechCrunch it used phishing and social engineering to trick employees into granting access, then pulled millions of rows of patient records from Snowflake and Salesforce environments, including names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications, and employee home addresses.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-31
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