Tech News

AI & ML 6 min

AI & ML · 12 Jul 2026 —

Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.1 — Its First Frontier API With a Price Tag, and a Shift Away From the Free-Weights Strategy

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on 9 July in public preview, alongside a paid Meta Model API. The benchmarks are secondary;...

AI

AI Tools Desk

12 Jul

Cybersecurity 7 min

CYBERSECURITY · 11 Jul 2026 —

One PeopleSoft Zero-Day, 100-Plus Victims: The July Breach Disclosures Trace to a Single Oracle Flaw

Nissan, NAIC and a wave of universities are disclosing breaches that trace to one Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, CVE-2026-3...

CY

Cyber Team

11 Jul

Cybersecurity 6 min

CYBERSECURITY · 11 Jul 2026 —

Accenture Says It Remediated an 'Isolated Matter' — a Seller Claims 35GB of Source Code and Cloud Keys

A forum seller claims to have taken 35GB of Accenture source code and cloud credentials; Accenture acknowledges an isola...

CY

Cyber Team

11 Jul

Finance 6 min

FINANCE · 11 Jul 2026 —

Klarna Applies to Become a US Bank — Not Act Like One — With a Utah Charter Bid

Klarna filed on 6 July for a Utah industrial bank charter to bring its US banking in-house and reduce its reliance on pa...

SA

Sarah Chen

11 Jul

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 11 Jul 2026 —

Grok 4.5 Launches at US$2 Input — SpaceXAI's First Cursor-Trained Flagship Prices Against the Frontier

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on 8 July at US$2/US$6 per million tokens — a coding-focused flagship trained with Cursor dat...

AI

AI Tools Desk

11 Jul

Cybersecurity 6 min

CYBERSECURITY · 11 Jul 2026 —

Adobe ColdFusion CVE-2026-48282: A Perfect-Score Path-Traversal Flaw CISA Says Is Being Exploited

CISA added a maximum-severity Adobe ColdFusion path-traversal flaw to its exploited-vulnerabilities catalog on 7 July, w...

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Cyber Team

11 Jul

ASEAN Tech 6 min

ASEAN TECH · 11 Jul 2026 —

MAS's SAFR Framework Puts the Safeguard Where the Money Moves — At the Point an AI Agent Acts

Singapore's MAS and industry partners published SAFR on 3 July, a voluntary framework that governs AI agents in finance...

PR

Priya Nair

11 Jul

Developer Tools 6 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · 11 Jul 2026 —

npm v12 Is Here, and It Turns Off a Default That Has Run Arbitrary Code for a Decade

npm v12 went generally available on 8 July, flipping install scripts, Git dependencies and remote-URL packages from auto...

KE

Kenji Tanaka

11 Jul

AI & ML 8 min

AI & ML · 11 Jul 2026 —

Beijing Weighs Letting Its AI Champions Buy the H200 — a Chip It Spent a Year Keeping Out

China is reportedly weighing limited H200 purchases for Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek — a partial reversal of its own...

SA

Sarah Chen

11 Jul

ASEAN Tech 6 min

ASEAN TECH · 11 Jul 2026 —

MAS Is Building an Institute to End the Pilot Era — Singapore's Bet That the Hard Part of Fintech Is Deployment

MAS announced on 25 June it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to move AI and tokenisation from experiments to...

SA

Sarah Chen

11 Jul

AI & ML 7 min

AI & ML · 11 Jul 2026 —

OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 to Everyone — Three Tiers, One Generation, and a Government Preview It Doesn't Want to Repeat

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna reached general availability on 9 July after a two-week preview staged at the US government'...

AI

AI Tools Desk

11 Jul

Health & Wellness 9 min

HEALTH & WELLNESS · 11 Jul 2026 —

Medtronic Is Notifying 3.8 Million People of a Data Breach — Here's What It Means for Patients

Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, is notifying 3,834,294 people that a data breach of its corporate I...

AM

Amelia Wong

11 Jul