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Startup Funding News Today, August 31, 2026: Apate.AI, S-Transistors, YOGa Clean Air & More

Monday’s startup funding cycle is light on volume but unusually coherent in theme. The strongest verified new rounds span cybersecurity AI, quantum-computing infrastructure, and clean-air technology, with investors backing technologies tied to concrete operational problems rather than another crop of […] The post Startup Funding News Today, August 31, 2026: Apate.AI, S-Transistors, YOGa Clean Air…

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Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It’s also renaming the “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that’s not a real human being. “We’ve heard that people don’t like seeing a profile…

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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, and manage high-value networks. Sygnia, the incident response firm that investigated the intrusion, said the actor

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