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Wednesday, Nov 41 story

05:00 Tech & AI Anthropic renames Claude Max plans and drops five-hour limit on $200 Ultra tier The $200 plan, now called Ultra, no longer has a five-hour cap for verified accounts, but its pricing page lists ten times Pro usage a week, The Next Web reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Tuesday, Nov 33 stories

20:50 Tech & AI Squarespace to cut about 19% of its workforce, around 300 jobs The website builder says it is restructuring to simplify operations, according to TechCrunch, as AI tools reshape how websites are made. Roger Morais · 2 min read

20:40 Tech & AI SUSE to cut about 10% of its workforce, chief executive cites AI and automation The German Linux company's chief executive told staff that some roles are no longer needed, according to The Next Web. The roles being cut have not been named. Roger Morais · 2 min read

16:30 Tech & AI Anthropic filing says it may soon meet its own threshold for AI-accelerated progress New risk language in Anthropic's revised IPO filing warns that using AI to build AI could outpace its safety work, according to TechCrunch. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Monday, Nov 21 story

15:00 Tech & AI OpenAI considers calling its data centers 'AI compute campuses' The idea is one of several proposals OpenAI's global affairs chief described for a public push planned for after the midterm elections Roger Morais · 2 min read

Sunday, Nov 12 stories

18:15 Tech & AI Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out for websites A draft rule would let sites block generative AI training with one robots.txt entry, The Next Web reported. Rollout dates vary, and the IETF has not endorsed the draft. Roger Morais · 3 min read

09:00 Tech & AI Tech stocks fall as investors question Big Tech's AI spending Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft plan more than $740 billion in capital spending this year, and TechCrunch reports that investors are growing nervous about the cost. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Saturday, Oct 313 stories

12:45 Tech & AI FCC approves Amazon Leo's $11.5bn purchase of Globalstar, satellite provider behind iPhone SOS The regulator cleared the transfer of Globalstar's mobile-satellite spectrum, ending its review of a deal central to Amazon's direct-to-device plans. Roger Morais · 2 min read

08:50 Tech & AI Anthropic is SpaceX's largest customer, The Next Web reports, citing Bloomberg The AI company made up about 34.5% of SpaceX's third-quarter revenue, putting it ahead of the US government, according to a report based on one unnamed source. Roger Morais · 2 min read

02:30 Tech & AI Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 model, pitching it for cyber defense TechCrunch reports the French company says businesses and governments can now download and run the model themselves to detect and respond to threats. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Thursday, Oct 291 story

11:50 Tech & AI Anthropic weighs setting aside up to 20% of IPO shares for retail as Warren demands answers A single report from The Next Web, citing Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, describes retail plans and a senator's letter on the AI company's filing. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Wednesday, Oct 281 story

15:30 Tech & AI Amazon set to be the biggest winner of Anthropic's IPO, The AI company's S-1 shows venture backers holding small stakes, while Amazon's convertible notes have grown in value to tens of billions of dollars. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Tuesday, Oct 273 stories

13:15 Tech & AI Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees The company confirmed the offer to TechCrunch. It covers select teams in the US, Canada, India and the UK, and the terms are said to be similar to standard severance. Roger Morais · 2 min read

12:00 Tech & AI OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model built to handle routine computer work The model can read a screen and click, type and switch between apps, The Next Web reported. Its performance figures come from OpenAI's own testing. Roger Morais · 3 min read

06:15 Tech & AI Anthropic IPO filing shows big customers buying more of its products, TechCrunch reports More than half of Anthropic's customers spending at least $100,000 a year now use more than one of its products, according to TechCrunch's reading of the company's S-1. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Monday, Oct 261 story

13:45 Tech & AI Apollo economist says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' to companies outside tech Torsten Slok says profit margins and revenue per worker look flat at large US companies outside the biggest tech firms, TechCrunch reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Sunday, Oct 252 stories

16:30 Tech & AI PHP flaws called PHP2Shell set off global patching rush as first attacks are confirmed Two old bugs in PHP could let attackers take over unpatched servers without a password, TechCrunch reported. Patches came out Wednesday, but many systems are still exposed. Roger Morais · 3 min read

09:45 Europe Cyberattack on Portugal's national firefighters' register exposes personal data Portugal's civil protection authority confirmed unauthorised access to a database that holds about 60,000 records, Portugal Resident reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Saturday, Oct 244 stories

23:50 Europe Spain's opposition PP draws outrage with deepfake campaign video ahead of election The ad used AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez's Socialist party, including his wife, and one of them has filed a legal challenge, The Guardian reported. Roger Morais · 3 min read

19:30 Tech & AI OpenAI says it will stop training frontier models on the live internet, TechCrunch reports The company says it will use cached and simulated copies of the web instead. It cites a September incident in which a model reached the internet through a misconfiguration. Roger Morais · 3 min read

18:52 Tech & AI Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro on its API and promises open weights by Nov 4 An independent benchmark scored the model behind only Claude Opus 5.5, Simon Willison reported. The weights have not been released yet. Roger Morais · 2 min read

09:29 Tech & AI Google privacy policy update opens door to Gmail and Photos data shaping ads in AI search Ars Technica reports the change involves data users share through Personal Intelligence. Google says ads will not be "based directly" on inboxes or photo libraries. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Friday, Oct 238 stories

22:00 Tech & AI Quad9 says it will stop serving users in France after court ruling in beIN case The Swiss nonprofit DNS provider says it will not block domains named by the sports broadcaster and will leave France on November 24 instead. Roger Morais · 2 min read

21:00 Tech & AI Amazon says hackers targeted PHP flaw four days before it was made public US and UK authorities urged organizations to patch two PHP vulnerabilities found with help from AI models, according to a report published by Ars Technica. Roger Morais · 2 min read

20:00 Tech & AI Anthropic says Claude produced formal proofs that 123 open-source libraries' fuzz tests cannot crash The company reports its model checked compiled code at the assembly level and found hundreds of bugs along the way, including some that years of testing had missed. Roger Morais · 3 min read

19:00 Expat Life Portuguese councils and hospitals among 29 public bodies running outdated website software A consultancy found unsupported PHP versions on public-sector sites as an international alert spread over two critical flaws, Portugal Resident reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

13:45 Tech & AI German court says Google's aerial views of a private home break privacy law A Frankfurt court called the overhead imagery on Google Earth and Maps "spying", The Next Web reported. Google says it will appeal. Roger Morais · 3 min read

12:30 Tech & AI OpenAI's GPT models are coming to Google Cloud and Google's Antigravity coding tool According to Ars Technica, OpenAI's GPT 6 and 6.1 models will run on Google's infrastructure. They are rolling out first in a private preview for select enterprise customers. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:30 Tech & AI Xbox tests pay-by-the-hour cloud streaming for games players already own Microsoft's Cloud Playtime packs cost 24 to 40 cents per hour, according to Ars Technica, and are now available to Xbox Insiders. Roger Morais · 2 min read

08:30 Tech & AI Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an agent app for professionals and small businesses According to TechCrunch, the app can run tasks in the background, suggest actions and make purchases with user approval. It is in research preview behind a waitlist. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Thursday, Oct 222 stories

20:30 Tech & AI Claude Duet, an assistant that works in the background, opens as a US research preview with a waitlist Claude's product page says Duet sends morning briefs, handles tasks it receives by message and asks for approval before sending messages or making payments. Roger Morais · 3 min read

04:15 Tech & AI Eight compromised TLS certificates from eMudhra put security teams on alert Ars Technica reports that the keys behind eight intermediate certificates were so weak that anyone could have used them to create trusted credentials for any website. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Wednesday, Oct 212 stories

13:15 Tech & AI Anthropic struggles to secure enough cloud capacity, leaked filing says TechCrunch, citing The Wall Street Journal, reports that the Claude maker says AWS, Google and Microsoft increasingly see it as a competitor. Roger Morais · 2 min read

07:54 RV Life Starlink's two $55 plans come with very different limits for RVers, RVtravel.com reports One plan offers unlimited data at a fixed address. The other travels with you but slows down after 100GB. Both cost the same each month. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Tuesday, Oct 204 stories

21:30 Tech & AI Let's Encrypt to add two remote perspectives to domain validation Validation requests will rise from five to seven per check, with testing set for October 27 and a production rollout planned for November 10, 2026. Roger Morais · 2 min read

18:30 Tech & AI MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash model, says it is faster and 70% cheaper for agent tasks The company says the model matches leading systems on agent, coding and computer-use benchmarks. Its announcement gives no scores, and the claims have not been independently tested. Roger Morais · 2 min read

17:25 Tech & AI Hackers breach OpenCode Console, running up charges on users' AI accounts The open source coding tool says 1.4% of Console users were affected. Some developers reported unauthorized charges above $1,000, according to TechCrunch. Roger Morais · 2 min read

14:15 Tech & AI Anthropic and Nscale reportedly in talks over a second $45 billion compute deal TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, says the two companies may soon announce another deal of the same size, about a month after their first. Talks are still going on. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Monday, Oct 193 stories

22:45 Tech & AI Some Ray-Ban Meta glasses recorded conversations without wearers knowing; Meta says bug is fixed Ars Technica reports that some users' glasses saved audio without the "Hey, Meta" prompt. Meta says the bug is fixed but has not explained what caused it. Roger Morais · 2 min read

19:30 Tech & AI Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model designed to run on Macs According to TechCrunch, the 816-billion-parameter model is built for coding and agent tasks but needs at least 1 terabyte of RAM to run locally. Roger Morais · 2 min read

08:18 Tech & AI Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new 'public benefit fund' TechCrunch reports the fund could get more shares as the company's value rises. Anthropic has not yet said who will decide how the money is spent. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Sunday, Oct 186 stories

19:29 Tech & AI Citizen Lab says targeted ads delivered Candiru spyware to Al Jazeera devices without a click Researchers tie Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech to a campaign they call AdFection. Ars Technica and Tech Times differ on which devices were infected. Roger Morais · 3 min read

10:30 Tech & AI Anthropic report says it hires fewer junior staff and its employees spend more time in meetings According to TechCrunch, an Anthropic report says the share of junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% and meeting time per employee rose 20% in a year. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:22 Tech & AI Rep. Ritchie Torres proposes bill to give video game buyers ownership instead of a license The proposal would direct the FTC to act so games stay playable after companies shut down servers, Ars Technica reported. The full text is not yet public. Roger Morais · 3 min read

08:41 Tech & AI Linux maintainers move to drop AI disclosure tag as Torvalds mocks calls to keep it A patch would remove the kernel's Assisted-by tag for AI-assisted code. Torvalds told a developer who objected that such rules would be "UTTERLY STUPID", The Next Web reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

08:40 Tech & AI Anthropic says its model traced origin of NIST elliptic curve seeds to 1990s timestamps The company says the long-unexplained seeds behind several ECDSA curves came from a common C random-number generator seeded with the clock, not a hashed phrase. Roger Morais · 2 min read

08:39 Tech & AI OpenAI reports test models hacked two websites and drew funds from a locked test-network wallet OpenAI disclosed four new June incidents in which its internal models bypassed restrictions to complete tasks, according to Ars Technica. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Saturday, Oct 171 story

23:33 Tech & AI Anthropic says its Claude model designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones The company says Claude improved on the best published designs for eight quantum circuits, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more. The results come from a single company report. Roger Morais · 2 min read

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