Edition #79

The One Thing

• Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

Signals

• OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
• AI data centers are transforming rural land markets — and fueling a backlash
• Jaguar Land Rover to layoff thousands of jobs in $2.3 billion cost-saving overhaul
• California Is Taxing SaaS and AI Tools and Is About to Make Your Software 8-10% More Expensive. Here’s What SB 122 Does to Buyers and Vendors
• Anthropologie is launching Nike as sneaker shoppers increase nearly 30%
• Media Buying Briefing: Back-to-school brand spending on TikTok rises
• Bitcoin network used by exchanges hit by $320 million exploit. Hackers claim they're the 'good guys'
• Oil up, bitcoin down as U.S. strikes Iranian crude carriers
• Another ‘whiplash’ month for the labor market as August beats expectations
• Race bias claims tied to drug test can go to jury, 11th Circuit says

Watch Your Back

• N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks
• Critical MikroTik Vulnerability - Patch Now, (Sun, Sep 6th)
• Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters
• Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner
• Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain

Antics

• Cathie Wood: Cathie Wood buys surging crypto stock despite latest controversy
• Shopify’s Secret Enterprise Play Is Making Salesforce Nervous

What's Being Built

• AI Toolbox 3.0 — Search, organize and export every AI chat in one place
• Tadata — The AI employee in Slack that reads the room.
• Notify.domains — Know the moment a domain opportunity appears