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OpenAI announced the addition of two models, GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna, to its GPT‑6 lineup. Both models are now accessible through ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu tiers. OpenAI also reduced API pricing for the new models by 50 percent relative to the promotional rates of GPT‑5.6. GPT‑6 Sol targets demanding professional workflows and coding tasks, reportedly outperforming Claude Opus 5 on AutomationBench while costing only 9 percent of the competitor per task, and achieving a 68.8 percent score on [...]

Microsoft announced the takedown of EvilTokens, an AI‑driven cybercrime platform that automated the full fraud pipeline from email compromise to financial theft. Launched in February 2026, the service sold access to compromised inboxes for a $1,500 initiation fee and $500 monthly, using a chatbot to scan victims’ mail, map organizational roles, pinpoint “money movers,” and draft convincing impersonation messages. Within months it breached more than 12,000 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations in the United States, Canada, the [...]

YouTube announced a suite of community upgrades at its Made on YouTube event, adding GIF support and voice‑driven commenting on TV screens. Creators will receive a new “personalized moderation” tool to fine‑tune comment filters, especially for live streams, and can invite fans into exclusive VIP‑style areas. The platform is expanding paid Channel Memberships with members‑only communities and a revamped discovery page. A revamped “Hype” feature now includes purchasable “Jewels,” a virtual currency that lets fans amplify video [...]

Tesla has secured the largest U.S. electric‑truck order ever, as the new shippers’ alliance ZET SCALE named the company its primary manufacturer for an initial purchase of 2,500 Class 8 electric trucks. The deal, selected through a competitive request‑for‑proposals that evaluated price, range, charging capability and production capacity, will almost double the nation’s electric heavy‑truck fleet. Secondary manufacturers Kenworth, RIDE and Volvo were also approved, though the split of the 2,500 units remains undisclosed. Financing will be provided [...]

Meta announced that, with data supplied by the Singapore Police Force (SPF), it has taken down more than 3.7 million scam‑linked accounts, pages and other content on Facebook and Instagram in 2024. The partnership, now in its second year, enables Meta investigators to pinpoint and dismantle entire scam ecosystems that would otherwise remain hidden across platforms and borders. Between January and June, the company removed over 113 000 fraudulent entities, including 33 600 targeted at holiday‑season travelers in June. In [...]

Microsoft originally labeled CVE‑2026‑65660, a SharePoint Server flaw affecting 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition, as a spoofing issue with a CVSS of 6.5. Viettel Cyber Security researcher Dinh Ho Anh Khoa later revealed the vulnerability permits authenticated remote code execution, raising the NVD score to 8.8. The bug resides in the SafeControls check of the ToolPane component, where unescaped quotes allow injection of arbitrary .NET classes that are loaded via XamlServices.Parse(), enabling code execution. Patches released on [...]

RadarScope, the award‑winning iPhone radar app used by meteorologists and storm spotters, has been updated to support Apple CarPlay. The new version, released in the 5.7 update, brings high‑resolution data from more than 300 radars to a CarPlay interface, allowing users to view MRMS, single‑site radar, satellite imagery and overlay their navigation route. As drivers travel, the app automatically switches to the nearest radar site, displaying warnings, prob‑severe alerts and reports directly on the map. The CarPlay [...]

Xbox is preparing a second round of layoffs this week, according to an exclusive report by The Information. The unnamed source says Microsoft will consolidate “several” studios, though specific units were not identified. This follows the July restructuring that cut 1,600 jobs across the Xbox portfolio and led to the sale or spin‑off of studios such as Ninja Theory, Undead Labs and Arkane Lyon. CEO Asha Sharma’s “reset” plan aims to refocus the gaming division on flagship franchises [...]