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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 →
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 →
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 →
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) →
Binance's CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving and Justin Yek will replace him. The change comes roughly a week after a $6.3B theft that Binance and the FBI attributed to a North Korean group.
via TechCrunch →
The CEO said AI buyers absorbed manufacturing capacity, with standard lead times reportedly stretching to as long as 32 weeks.
via 24/7 Wall St. →
A server move left an internal system online from early 2025; unauthorized access to archived records happened in mid-2026 and may include identity documents. Core certificate services were unaffected.
via The Register →