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Hand-picked headlines on software, SaaS, AI and the tech job market. Short summaries, with links to the original reporting.
Barracuda says attackers are chaining a critical authorization bypass with a command-injection bug in its Email Security Gateway, which could give root access. It reports a small number of affected organisations; patches shipped last week.
via The Register →
From 9 December, UK Microsoft 365 tenants that have not chosen a setting will have Anthropic Claude switched on in Copilot. UK tenants sit outside the EU Data Boundary, and Anthropic processes the data in the US.
via The Register →
Microsoft will phase out Office 365 A1 and the Student Use Benefit, pushing education customers onto paid plans at their first renewal from 2028. A cheaper A0 tier drops Exchange, SharePoint and Teams, while a new A7 tier tops the range.
via The Register →
Anthropic filed to sell 825M shares at $70-$78 each, aiming to raise up to about $64.4B on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The target valuation sits above its last private mark but below what some bankers floated earlier.
via Tech.eu →
Austin-based Nominal closed a Series C led by Lightspeed, tripling its valuation in eight months. Its platform helps test complex hardware, with defence firms such as Anduril among its customers.
via TechCrunch →
Apple introduced one-time paid packs that add extra AI usage once monthly limits run out, first in Logic Pro. Packs expire after 12 months, and other Creator Studio apps are expected to follow.
via 9to5Mac →
Huawei says the machine is fully Chinese-made, with one government agency reportedly ordering 600 units, though The Register notes component origins are unclear.
via The Register →
The Indian edtech listed firm reported a sequential headcount drop it partly attributes to AI, an offline-business EBITDA loss, and a sub-$20M acquisition allowance.
via Entrackr →
The Australian operator will stop work on projects without customer contracts after delays and community pushback hit its forecast; Goodman and Digital Realty recently took a 9.9% stake.
via DealStreetAsia →
OpenShift 5 is generally available with AI agents that investigate cluster events, while RHEL 10.3 and 9.9 are due soon with an MCP server and sealed images.
via SiliconANGLE →
Statnett is halting new grid reservations and some approvals for data centres until at least new functional requirements are set, expected by August 2027, as 18,000 MW of further requests pile up.
via Statnett →
Researchers found an exposed directory showing an autonomous intrusion toolkit built on DeepSeek Flash that ran for two weeks, mostly exploiting a Cisco BroadWorks flaw. Attribution is unproven.
via GBHackers →
The AI inference provider told customers an October 24 intrusion via a cloud provider reached billing data and, for some accounts, secrets, datasets and incomplete model weights.
via RuntimeWire →
Meta says its smallest Muse model rivals Claude Haiku 5.5 on one benchmark at roughly a third of the cost, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window.
via Meta AI Research →
Announced at Adobe MAX, the deal lets Disney build custom generative models on its own properties with Firefly Foundry and brings Adobe into Disney StudioLAB and ESPN Edge.
via Adobe →
Anthropic released two variants of one model: Fable for general users with stronger cyber and bio safeguards, and Mythos for vetted organisations. Output is said to be up to 30% faster than 5.1.
via Anthropic →
Google introduced two new TPU systems: 8tx for confidential inference using AMD EPYC hosts, and 8i Max, a two-chip package aimed at long-context workloads.
via Google (The Keyword) →
Founder Stephen Ward is raising a fund about the size of his debut one, which made 14 investments including the SGNL sale to CrowdStrike for $740M, as early-stage security startups outraise later-stage peers.
via TechCrunch →
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation after Jensen Huang acknowledged a relationship with a Singapore-based executive US officials accuse of spying for China. A congressional committee has asked him to testify in a closed-door briefing this week.
via SiliconANGLE →
Of 69 tracked new-age tech stocks, 54 gained over the week, with CarTrade up 23.3%. RateGain fell most, down about 9%.
via Inc42 →