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Accel has closed a new $550 million India fund, less than two years after raising its previous India-focused vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The new India fund was oversubscribed and closed within weeks, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Accel still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for investment, the people said, underlining that the latest raise came despite ample capital remaining in its earlier vehicle. The fundraising comes as Accel bets that India’s next startup wave will be driven not only by AI, but also by…

Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5120249 Extended Security Updates (ESU) for versions 22H2 and 21H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs. Today’s update is mandatory as it contains the August 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates. You can install today’s update by going to Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and clicking on ‘Check for updates.’ You can also manually download and install the update from the Microsoft Update Catalog. After installing today’s update, Windows 10 will be updated to OS Builds 19045.7663 and 19044.7663. What’s new in the Windows 10 August 2026 Patch Tuesday update With…

In brief Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years. His departure follows several recent exits across the company’s leadership, ethics, and safety teams. OpenAI confidentially filed for a potential IPO in June but has not committed to going public. Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced Tuesday that he is leaving the AI developer after eight years to start a new venture. It’s the latest among a string of departures at the AI behemoth, leaving observers to wonder what to make of the moves as OpenAI preps for an IPO.In a post on X, Lightcap said starting something new was…

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing visits Bangkok as part of an ongoing diplomatic push; the Philippines’ growth slumps; and a school shooting puts Thailand’s gun culture in the global spotlight. Min Aung Hlaing in Bangkok Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing visited Bangkok last week, part of an ongoing and successful diplomatic push following sham elections held in 2025-2026 and his own inauguration as president in April. The visit to Thailand follows an official visit to India from May to June, China in June, and Laos in July.…

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swath of Spain into eerie daytime darkness. The shadow cast when the Moon blots out the Sun will begin in Russia’s remote Arctic north at around 1700 GMT and continue in an arc over Greenland and Iceland. Solar Eclipse: Three things we could learn on August 12 To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the…

UK Energy Minister Michael Shanks said upgrading the grid is “a vital part of how we deliver secure, homegrown energy and unlock economic growth across the country.”He added: “It is a moment of national renewal – upgrading what was built largely in the 1960s for the modern age and is our route to bringing down electricity bills for households across the country.”It’s vital we build again as a country and we are determined those communities which host pylons should benefit, which is why we’re bringing down the energy bills of those hosting this vital national infrastructure.”The Department for Energy Security…

The Cobra meeting will be attended by ministers from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Home Office, and Department for Health, as well as the Environment Agency.It will be the second Cobra meeting this year on heatwaves, after one took place amid high temperatures in June.A spokesperson for No 10 said this summer was proving “challenging” in the UK, particularly for “firefighters tackling wildfires, farmers working in drought conditions, and NHS staff in busy A&E units”. “We will continue to take the action needed to keep communities safe, protect water supplies and safeguard the environment,” they said.The hottest…

As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu has seized the boom, raising $93 million in fresh funding. The Bengaluru‑based startup offers electric two‑wheelers on weekly subscription plans, so delivery drivers can jump straight into the gig economy without buying their own vehicles. With around 50,000 vehicles in its fleet, Yulu reports that it logs about 1.6 million zero‑emission miles each week and powers more than 750,000 deliveries a day. The new funding will let Yulu grow that fleet to 200,000 bikes over the next two years and launch faster electric…

NVIDIA introduced open technologies for building always-on AI agents from systems of specialized models. Two artifacts shipped together. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a lightweight, customizable open model built for high-volume agentic tasks, and NeMo Switchyard is an open source routing library that directs each step of an agent workflow to the most capable and efficient model available. The problem both address is structural: long-running agents spend most of their time on tool calls, result validation, and subagent delegation, and sending every one of those steps to a frontier reasoning model adds cost and latency. Lightning is a 30B mixture-of-experts model…

A burgeoning ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is using known exploited vulnerabilities in campaigns against critical infrastructure and government organizations around the globe.US and South Korean government agencies issued a joint cybersecurity alert on Monday regarding Gunra, a ransomware gang that first emerged in the spring of 2025. Gunra’s ransomware is “a sophisticated double-extortion ransomware variant” based on the leaked source code of the now-defunct Conti gang, according to the advisory.Initially, Gunra operators focused on Windows environments before developing a Linux variant and further expanding operations this year. “As of early 2026, Gunra expanded its operations through a structured RaaS affiliate program…