11 August 2026

How a wave of disinformation on Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram contributed to a surge of migrants from Morocco to Spain's Ceuta enclave (New York Times)

New York Times:
How a wave of disinformation on Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram contributed to a surge of migrants from Morocco to Spain's Ceuta enclave  —  A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.

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Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up ~146% in 2026 so far (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Intel raised $20B in an upsized share sale, up from the $15B it was targeting; sources say the sale drew $100B+ in demand; INTC is up ~146% in 2026 so far  —  Making Sense of the Multibillion-Dollar Numbers of Nvidia Deal, Intel Share Sale  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute

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A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources  —  Britain's bid to build a “sovereign” AI model rests with a London start-up of about 30 employees that has raised just $15mn.

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A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns (ABC)

ABC:
A look at Western Australian police's first live facial recognition trial, which has scanned 130,000+ people since June, raising accuracy and privacy concerns  —  By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and ABC Regional Investigations' Andy Burns  —  abc.net.au/news/ai-police-face- screening-trial-sparks-privacy-concern/ 107009644

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Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)

Nick Gray / PatronView:
Owner of 1.5M-page site PatronView on a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35K Claude crawls per referred user, Amazon bot referred none  —  A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website.  What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.  August 7, 2026

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