Software, security, and cloud news — summarized in plain language, with sources.
Google's new workhorse model posts big gains on software-engineering benchmarks and costs half as much as its predecessor, though the intro pricing expires at year-end.
IBM will build a dedicated OpenAI practice, train tens of thousands of consultants, and fold GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into its consulting platform.
Researchers at CTM360 mapped more than 3,000 phishing URLs impersonating recruiters from over 50 organizations, using fake login popups to capture Google and Facebook credentials.
Attackers began forging admin-level access tokens on unpatched on-premises SharePoint servers almost immediately after Rapid7 published exploit details.
SpaceX shares jumped 11% on August 13, climbing back above the June IPO price, days after the company said Starlink serves 22 million mobile users and about 12 million internet customers.
Bloomberg reports Anthropic is negotiating a roughly $6 billion acquisition of Israeli startup Decart, whose technology squeezes more AI work out of existing chips.
DeepSeek made its flagship V4 Pro model generally available on August 13 and announced a shift to peak and off-peak API pricing, signaling the end of its ultra-cheap era.
Hardware wallet maker Trezor disclosed that a Metabase zero-day exploited at its fulfillment provider ShipMonk leaked names, addresses, and phone numbers of nearly 14,000 customers.
Cloudflare's Email Security service saw outbound mail delivery disrupted on August 12 after its sending IPs landed on a Spamhaus blocklist, capping a bumpy week for the provider.
At its August 12 event, Google unveiled four Pixel 11 models with a faster Tensor G6 chip, doubled base storage, upgraded security hardware, and a $100 price bump.
Elon Musk's AI group released Grok 4.6 on August 12, matching OpenAI's newest model on a key intelligence index while keeping prices at commodity levels.
Researchers say attackers began exploiting a 9.8-severity VMware vCenter vulnerability just five days after Broadcom disclosed and patched it, planting stealthy remote-access backdoors.
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