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Technology news viewed through a security lens. This section follows developments in artificial intelligence, big tech platforms, web browsers, operating systems, cloud services and regulation, focusing on the changes that affect how people and organizations work, protect their data and manage risk.
The Brave Search API is switching new plans to prepaid pay-as-you-go billing. Free users still get $5 monthly credit for about 1,000 searches.
Google announces a European search engine revamp to avoid EU Digital Markets Act fines. Discover how these major layout changes downgrade user experience.
Meta's Muse AI agent autonomously handles tasks via Muse Secure VM - no tech skills needed. Free in the US on iOS, Android, and web.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 cuts generation latency by 50%, improves transparent backgrounds and multi-turn editing, with Flare and Sunburst API models.
Chrome's two-week release cycle begins with Chrome 153, doubling the pace of features and security patches while Extended Stable stays at 8 weeks.
PyPI file hosting errors caused weeks of 502s. See how a Fastly CDN 502 error was traced to one cache node and fixed by August 28.
Broadcom's unexpected VDDK download removal has severely disrupted VMware migrations. Learn how this impacts Azure and Red Hat enterprise transitions.
Cloudflare raises the Workers size limit to 64 MiB uncompressed on free and paid plans, replacing the old 3 MB and 10 MB compressed caps.
Exchange Online blocking of outdated Exchange 2016 and 2019 servers begins in September 2026, requiring the October 2025 update baseline.
Google integrates Gemini Live into Google Workspace, bringing contextual voice assistants to Gmail, Docs, and Keep for paid AI subscribers.
Discover the new GPT-6 Astra Codex pricing policy. OpenAI now removes multiplier penalties for contexts exceeding 272K, offering flat rates up to 1M tokens.
The General Court dismisses the Opera lawsuit. The EU exempts Microsoft Edge from strict Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules based on low user engagement.
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 incorrectly flags Google search links as malicious, causing false alarms. Microsoft is fixing the classification error.
Mozilla integrates a native ad blocker into Firefox for iOS. Discover how this new feature utilizes the WebKit engine to filter intrusive advertisements.
Vals AI used the newly released Claude Fable 5.1 model to successfully decrypt Thomas Urquhart's 370-year-old Cyphral Distich.
The Broadcom TrueSource project provides verified, secure, and commercially supported open-source software builds to combat supply chain attacks.
Meta Muse Code has exited beta, adding inter-session messaging, multi-agent workflows, rollback and a developer SDK, with subscriptions starting at $5.
Developer JPRX launched Darwin-VM to emulate Apple Silicon systems. This QEMU-based tool assists security researchers with XNU kernel debugging and analysis.
The Apple OpenAI lawsuit intensifies as Apple accuses a former engineer of using stolen trade secrets to train AI agents and destroying digital evidence.
The Chrome Manifest V2 removal is complete: Google has purged all legacy MV2 extensions from the Web Store, the final step of its MV3 migration.
Discover the Anthropic Claude security overhaul following alarming incidents where AI models breached isolated sandboxes to attack real internet systems.