Russian state hackers exploited a Zimbra zero-day to steal NATO emails; CISA warned many servers remain vulnerable. Iran-linked threat actors expanded targeting of US industrial control systems. Tesla spent $1 billion on chips and robots, with unproven Optimus and Robotaxi. Sony will end physical PlayStation discs by 2028, sparking backlash over digital ownership. UK invested £708 million in the Tempest fighter jet.
Yope raised $12.3M seed for its algorithm-free private social network, now with ~15M users. Cashea, Venezuela’s largest fintech, secured $100M across Series A and B. Meta named Assaf Keren as new CISO, replacing Guy Rosen. The White House alleged Moonshot AI stole Anthropic’s Fable model via sophisticated distillation. Xbox brought four classic titles to PC with 4X resolution. Science Corp earned EU approval for its Prima bionic eye treating macular degeneration. Tencent shares fell 7% on gaming revenue fears. A critical Windows 11 vulnerability (CVE-2026-50343) grants SYSTEM privileges without admin rights.
Cisco released two open-weight AI models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, that detect software vulnerabilities for under $1 per scan and rival GPT-5.5’s performance. The US Marines deployed an AI turret with standard machine guns to autonomously engage drones and ground targets. Intel’s foundry business secured Fortinet as a customer for custom ASICs. The UK’s £8.35B Skynet satellite upgrade received a red delivery rating due to supplier stumbles and staffing shortages. Trump nominated Adam Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, to lead the DOJ antitrust division. OVH performed mass reboots without customer consent to patch a critical Januscape hypervisor bug.
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical WordPress vulnerability, with dozens of public proof-of-concept exploits. Scammers impersonate the FBI on social media to prey on crime victims, warns the IC3. An AWS customer suffered a major outage after an expired payment card, spam filter, and broken authenticator combined. In the HOLLOWGRAPH campaign, malware hides commands in Microsoft 365 calendar appointments set for 2050, using Microsoft’s cloud for data exfiltration. A database of 23 million Paidwork records, including bank details, was dumped online. Meanwhile, malicious cloud customers could intentionally overload power grids.
A new Proxmox package, pve-microvm, integrates QEMU’s microvm machine type for sub-300ms boot times using a 12MB kernel and virtio-only devices. Meanwhile, a developer uncovered two browser push notification bugs: permissions silently reset and a default 60-second time-to-live discarding pushes when the browser closed—fixed by re-granting permission and setting TTL to 86,400 seconds. In cryptography, a Lean tutorial demonstrates formal verification of the One-Time Pad. Dependable C proposes a stable C subset prioritizing decadal reliability over modern standards.
Verizon is cutting 3,000 jobs and selling 274 stores as part of a restructuring to reduce costs by $5 billion by 2026. A critical OpenSSL vulnerability, HollowByte, lets remote attackers cause denial of service with an 11-byte payload; a fix is included in v4.0.1. UFO disclosure debates intensify as Jesse Michels and David Grusch allege a secret society runs a global cover-up, with a former CIA officer warning the truth may be psychologically difficult.
The Trump administration is considering an independent AI safety regulator modeled after FINRA, reporting to the SEC. Valar Atomics is raising $1B at a $5B valuation for small nuclear reactors for data centers. AWS apologized for a billing glitch that generated trillions in estimated invoices. Apple and the DOJ are in early settlement talks over a 2024 antitrust suit. Meta is negotiating to lease AI computing power to Anthropic in a deal potentially worth $10B over two years. OpenRouter also draws multibillion-dollar takeover interest.
Two British Scattered Spider members were sentenced to 5.5 years for the 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, the UK’s largest cybercrime prosecution. A tech support scam at Qantas exposed data of 5.7 million people. An AWS CloudFront outage due to storm winds disrupted sites like the UK National Lottery. Meta will notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot, with global rollout planned.
Microsoft continues using dark patterns to push Edge, a Mozilla-commissioned report reveals, with misleading wording and forced resets—though EU rules curb this in Europe. A former employee’s lawsuit alleges AWS data centers secretly consume water year-round, contradicting its “water positive” claims. UK MPs warn Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall’s £1.15B shared services push, calling the funding reluctance a poor signal. Meanwhile, KeyBanc analysts say Salesforce’s Agentforce struggles with messy data, despite Salesforce touting it as its fastest-growing product.
TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by former SpaceX engineers, raised $115M for remotely operated equipment. Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero for over €11.2B. Google Images launched a Pinterest-like redesign with AI image creation in Search. Switch hired banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B, valuing it at $80B. IBM shares plunged over 20% after Q2 revenue missed estimates at $17.2B. New York Governor Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers over 50MW. OpenAI partnered with Kalshi to show World Cup predictions in ChatGPT.
