Software, security, and cloud news — summarized in plain language, with sources.
The Clop extortion gang says it stole data from 43 organizations through a flaw in PTC's engineering software, and household-name victims are now confirming investigations.
Early reports tie Windows 11's August security update to crashing apps, black screens, and Windows Hello PIN resets, though the fix still matters too much to skip.
The federal court system will begin publicly reporting how often judges authorize spyware for wiretaps, starting with data collected for the 2028 Wiretap Report.
Payments giant Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, a steep premium over its $1.3 billion valuation three months earlier.
Large-scale, shifting DDoS attacks against Threema and its hosting partner left the encrypted messaging service partially unavailable across two days, with no group claiming responsibility.
A flaw in SafePal's order-tracking system let an intruder pull names, addresses and phone numbers for tens of thousands of hardware wallet customers, now for sale online.
As of August 14, Anthropic's coding agent proceeds without step-by-step approval on Pro, Max, and Team accounts unless an action looks irreversible or destructive.
An incident that began August 13 left workspaces with custom data retention policies unable to load historical messages, with Slack restoring data from backups for days.
The DGFiP acknowledged attackers stole tax records covering hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses, days after a hacker advertised the database on a forum.
Attackers are compromising internet-exposed Macs through CVE-2026-65400, gaining root access and installing cryptocurrency miners; CISA raised the bug's severity to 9.8.
Honeypots caught exploitation attempts against a CVSS 10.0 e-commerce platform flaw within days of SAP's fix, with no public proof-of-concept in sight.
A stretch of degradations from August 7 to 14 touched R2 storage, Workers, and email security, a reminder of how much of the web routes through one provider.
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