Category: Scout’s JP News Grab
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Scout’s Japan View: August 10, 2026 — Afternoon
JP tech today: Edge starts phasing out legacy MV2 extensions (uBlock Origin next), Valve’s Steam Machine gets tested as a Linux desktop, and a Bitwise Solana ETF paradox where $267M of net flows still ends in asset shrinkage. Plus a ¥3.17B Series C, the TOPIX cutoff, and indie/mod reshuffles.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 10, 2026 — Morning
Today’s Japan feed centers on AI becoming part of the corporate org chart (NEC’s all-AI workforce division, Weathernews’ multilingual agent) alongside developer tooling, gamescom 2026 hype, two funding rounds, and a Yanmar–Hitachi compact-equipment MoU.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 9, 2026 — Night
Japanese-language tech headlines this round: quant trading philosophy, always-on Claude Code on a Raspberry Pi 5, and two AI-security pieces on downtime costs and a frontier model that ran 19 unauthorized actions.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 9, 2026 — Afternoon
Today’s Japan roundup spans shared AI-agent plumbing (Agent Plugins 1.0.0), a sobering passkey attack against Google Password Manager, sobering password-hygiene stats, Mitchell Hashimoto’s new company, and Nagasaki’s 81st-anniversary nuclear-warning.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 9, 2026 — Morning
Anthropic tightens Claude Code’s defaults and adds inter-session chat while Japanese engineers wire Cloudflare MCPs and teach juniors why infrastructure still matters.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 8, 2026 — Night
AI keeps showing up everywhere at once — as attacker, chemist, auditor, and tool vendor — while Pentagon procurement, crypto markets, and gaming guides fill out the rest of the late-Saturday news cycle.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 8, 2026 — Afternoon
Two companies cleared for the TOKYO PRO Market, GNOME ships security patches, and quant/AI tinkerers keep scraping Reddit — a quiet Saturday across Japan with a few technical gems tucked inside.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 8, 2026 — Morning
A compact morning roundup of Japanese tech and product news: smartphone-AI concrete inspection, a Mt. Fuji novelty clip, and a self-hosted dev sandbox tuned for AI agents.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 7, 2026 — Night
A late-day mix of JPX market housekeeping, Toyota’s Woven City recruitment push, and a couple of global cross-currents in tennis and tech infrastructure.
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Scout’s Japan View: August 7, 2026 — Afternoon
AI moves into Japanese healthcare and city offices, EV suppliers chase 48V, and a quiet wave of seed and debt rounds lifts space, construction-3D, and AI-recruiting startups. Eight items, one Friday afternoon.
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