August 26, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
NVIDIA Dynamo restores LLM inference capacity in seconds with Shadow Engine Recovery
NVIDIA added Shadow Engine Recovery to Dynamo, letting inference capacity recover in seconds after an engine process failure instead of requiring a cold restart that reloads weights into HBM from storage.
Report: OpenAI's 'Jalapeño' chip claimed to beat Nvidia Blackwell
An analysis from SemiAnalysis says OpenAI is developing its own AI chip called Jalapeño that reportedly outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell platform, a sign that major AI labs are increasingly building custom silicon.
llm-anthropic 0.27 adds compatibility with Anthropic's newest models
Simon Willison updated the llm-anthropic plugin for his LLM tool to add compatibility with Anthropic's recently released models.
Security
Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway's government digital services
A large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack has disrupted Norway's shared government digital infrastructure since Monday, affecting services used across the public sector.
Threat actors abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages
Attackers are exploiting npm and its mirror services to host malicious HTML pages impersonating Cloudflare CAPTCHAs, redirecting visitors to attacker-controlled websites.
New phishing service 'AnonyMousKIT' uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes
A newly uncovered phishing-as-a-service platform called AnonyMousKIT automates retrieval of codes used to unlock stolen Apple devices and disable Activation Lock, using AI-driven voice agents.
Hospital operator Nutex Health says data stolen in cyberattack
Healthcare provider Nutex is investigating a breach in which an unauthorized third party exfiltrated data from company servers.
WhatsApp adds stronger two-step verification, multiple passkeys
WhatsApp is rolling out new account security features, including support for multiple simultaneous passkeys and strengthened two-step verification.
Dev
CUDA Python 1.0 delivers stable APIs and full platform access for Python developers
NVIDIA released CUDA Python 1.0, giving Python developers stable APIs and direct GPU access without needing to learn CUDA C++ or set up a custom build toolchain.
EVE Online begins its move to Python 3
After more than twenty years on Python 2, the developers behind EVE Online have begun migrating the massive game to Python 3, an interesting case study in Python at scale.
Web
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
Mozilla has decided that Firefox 157 will support the JPEG XL image format by default on all platforms, after long keeping it behind a flag.
IT
Apple launches M6 and M5 Ultra chips in new Mac Studio and Mac mini
Apple has launched new M6 and M5 chips with major performance and AI compute gains, alongside updated Mac Studio and Mac mini models built around them.