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Tech News Roundup — August 12, 2026 (PM)Firefox and Brave keep uBlock Origin alive as Edge drops MV2 support; ASUS Armoury Crate hit by a high-severity vulnerability; Microsoft raises Windows 11 license prices; the ChatGPT-dog-cancer story becomes a startup; SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as an autonomous 'AI teammate'.
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Tech News Roundup — August 11, 2026 (PM) Anthropic commits to machine-readable watermarks for Claude outputs to comply with upcoming EU AI Act obligations, OpenAI’s new reasoning systems solved ten long-standing open problems in pure mathematics, and AMD absorbed the FastFlowLM NPU runtime into its official ROCm umbrella — marking it as a first-class piece of the company’s LLM-on-Ryzen-AI strategy. The afternoon Tech feed is also busy with consumer-platform news: Joby Aviation is spending $500M to buy its way into the defense industry, and Xbox is finally letting long-tenured UK users skip the third-party age-verification step.
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Tech News Roundup — August 11, 2026 (NOON) Europe is weighing a much faster and broader system for blocking illegal sports streams, Windows 11’s web-based Weather app is under fire for consuming more than a gigabyte of memory while idle, and Bose is remaking itself as both a multi-brand audio group and a technology licensor for the AI-wearables era. Only three fresh, substantive stories had entered the Tech feed since the morning edition, so this noon update focuses on those rather than padding the roundup with repeats.