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Apple Raised Apple TV to $14.99. Seventeen Days Later It Started Giving It AwayApple has folded Apple TV, Apple Arcade and Apple Music Select into iCloud+ at no extra charge in over 100 countries, and stopped selling them — or Apple One — separately there. Storage, not content, is now the anchor product.Apple
Cisco's Email Gateway Parses Hostile Mail for a Living. Now One Message Makes It RootCVE-2026-76461 lets an unauthenticated attacker run commands as root on a Cisco Secure Email Gateway by sending it mail. It is already being exploited, there is no workaround, and the appliance's exposure is not a misconfiguration — it is the product's job.Security
The Serious Charge Against Moonshot Is Not Distillation. It Is the RoutingAnthropic's September threat report names seven Chinese labs and about 190 million extracted exchanges. Buried in it is a different allegation: that Moonshot and DeepSeek served Claude's answers to their own paying users. That one does not depend on unsettled copyright law — and the evidence for it is also its biggest problem.Artificial intelligence
Astra Does Less Work. That Is Both the Product and the ComplaintTwo weeks in, OpenAI's Astra is tied for the top of the independent intelligence rankings and gets there on roughly a third of the output tokens of its nearest rival. The same instinct to cut a task short is also what users are complaining about.Artificial intelligence
GitLab's Perfect 10 Is Patched. The Secrets It Read Are NotCVE-2026-85706 let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files from self-managed GitLab servers, and CISA listed it as exploited one day after the patch shipped. Upgrading stops the reading; it does nothing about the credentials already taken.Security
Amodei Asked the Industry to Coordinate. It Had Been Coordinating Since JulyThe Information and the Washington Post report that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have met on a working-group basis since at least July about an industry standards body for frontier AI. Three labs, three incompatible designs, and an antitrust problem the proposal names out loud.Artificial intelligence
Z.ai Raised $5 Billion It Has Not Finished SpendingZ.AI told the Hong Kong exchange on Sunday it is raising about $5 billion — a discounted placement plus $3 billion of zero-coupon convertibles — two months after a $4 billion raise it has spent barely a third of. The structure says this is an option on compute, not a cash need.Artificial intelligence
Asia Put a Price on Pacing the FrontierAmodei called for slowing AI down, Altman agreed and shelved the IPO, and on Monday the Kospi closed 3.26 per cent lower with SoftBank off 11.2 per cent. The selloff was concentrated in memory and optics, which tells you what was actually being priced.Artificial intelligence
Sandworm and a Ransomware Affiliate Are in the Same Firewall ConsoleCisco Talos confirmed three separate groups exploiting the same two flaws in Secure Firewall Management Center. The federal patch deadline was Saturday. The target was not the firewall — it was the console that manages them all.Security