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Natural raised $30M Series A in 2026 led by Kirsten Green (Forerunner) for payment infrastructure that lets autonomous AI agents move and store funds without human approval at each step. The 2025-founded startup (Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, Walt Leung) targets credit-card/ACH rails built for human-initiated payments.
X rebuilt its Android app from scratch on Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, releasing the new version globally on July 20, 2026 via Google Play. Product head Nikita Bier says it improves loading, scrolling, and notifications, but Spaces is still missing and older-device performance remains a work in progress, with features like a video editor and cashtags to follow.
LG UltraGear monitors auto-trigger silent Windows 11 installs of LG driver updates and the “LG Monitor App Installer” with no permission prompt, then display bottom-right McAfee promos. Gamers Nexus documented this in July 2026 on 31/32 bootups; Microsoft Store pairing installs without user notification.
Edinburgh-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware disclosed on Monday, July 20, 2026, that hackers stole a “significant volume” of customer data from its systems in a cyberattack that is…
AI infrastructure startup Infinity announced in July 2026 that it has raised $15 million at a $100 million valuation. The round drew investment from Touring Capital, Principal VC, and individual…
Hackers are exploiting two critical WordPress flaws in the wild as of Mon, July 21, 2026, after patches shipped last week. The issues hit WP 6.9.0–6.9.4 and 7.0.0–7.0.1; Searchlight Cyber’s Adam Kues dubbed one WP2Shell, and Daniel Card estimates
Adobe announced in July 2026 that it is adding a set of AI-powered features to Project Indigo, its experimental iOS camera app. The new capabilities include LLM-based photo critiques, editing…
Hugging Face, the platform that hosts AI models and datasets, disclosed last Friday that a cyberattack compromised its internal datasets and service credentials. The company said it is still…
Two of China’s leading AI companies, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, unveiled major new models in July 2026 that they claim rival the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic — and plan to release them…
During a July 15–16, 2026 Tokyo trip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agreed to back Noetra—a 44-company consortium led by SoftBank, Sony, NEC and Honda—with up to ¥1T ($6.2B) over five years for a sovereign AI platform. Nvidia’s planned national data center will ship in 2028 with 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs (140MW), plus Cosmos 3 Edge on Jetson Thor.
A nonprofit called Current AI is working to build publicly accessible AI infrastructure modeled on the early World Wide Web — free, open, and available to anyone. The organization, founded in…
Google announced in July 2026 that it is open-sourcing its 3D emoji set, making the files freely available for public use as part of World Emoji Day on Friday, July 18. The company is releasing raw…
DOJ told executive-branch employees they may download TikTok onto government devices again, reversing the 2022 ban, in a July 2026 memo (Reuters), subject to agency discretion and workplace policies. The change hinges on U.S. operations moving to an Oracle–Silver Lake–MGX joint venture, with Oracle as security partner and ByteDance retaining 19.9%.
Mozilla’s July 2026 audit says astrology period tracker Stardust sends users’ reproductive health data (birth control, pregnancy status, moods, symptoms) to third parties immediately on app open, including RudderStack with a persistent ID and Facebook ad identifiers; it scored 2/10. Nonprofit Euki scored 10/10 by keeping data on-device.
TikTok is testing a new opt-in tool that scans for AI-generated content using a creator’s likeness and allows them to report unauthorized uses to the company. The tool was first spotted in 2026 by…
ICE plans to renew Thomson Reuters Special Services access up to $25M/yr for up to five years (from $24M total over the prior five-year deal), disclosed July 17, 2026. The filing cites “multiplied” data demand to identify unaccompanied minors and government-funds fraud, including vetting sponsors via CLEAR’s public records and license-plate reader data.
Patreon announced in July 2026 that it is moving beyond passive requests to actively block AI bots that scrape creators’ content for model training purposes. The membership platform is working with…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers woke up on Friday, July 18, 2026, to alarming billing estimates claiming they owed millions or even billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used….