Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
A global outage hit Meta's core platforms Thursday, locking out users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads for several hours. Over 120,000 DownDetector reports filed at peak.
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest in the company's monthly update history: 200 vulnerabilities patched, 38 rated critical, and six zero-days — three with exploit code already public. Researchers say AI-assisted bug hunting is why, and that this volume may not be a one-time event.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, its most capable publicly available model, alongside Claude Mythos 5 — the same underlying model with its security safeguards lifted, available only to vetted partners through Project Glasswing.
Fable 5 is the same model as Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5, wrapped in safety classifiers that block cyber and bio misuse. It beats Opus 4.8 by double digits on benchmarks — and it's free on paid plans until June 22.
Google and Mandiant confirm the hacking group targeted over 100 organizations — mostly US universities — using an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw with no patch currently available.
Prometheus, the physical AI startup Jeff Bezos co-founded in November 2025, closed a $12B Series B today led by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock — the largest private AI funding round of 2026. The company targets industrial engineering, promising to compress design-to-manufacturing cycles by a factor of ten.
South Korea's PIPC issued a 624.68 billion won ($409M) fine to Coupang today — the largest data privacy penalty in Korean history — after finding the e-commerce giant exposed 37.5 million users' personal data through negligent security practices and secretly tracked 11.17 million additional users across third-party websites.
CVE-2026-35273 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.61 and 8.62 that ShinyHunters is actively exploiting. The University of Nottingham has confirmed a breach; nearly 500,000 student records are exposed. Oracle has issued an emergency out-of-band security alert.
Helix Digital Infrastructure launches today with $10B+ committed capital, backed by KKR, Nvidia (as DSX infrastructure partner), Vistra (preferred power provider), and Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund. Adam Selipsky, who ran AWS from 2021–2024, will serve as co-founder and CEO.
CVE-2026-11645 is an out-of-bounds memory access in Chrome's V8 engine that allows remote code execution via a crafted web page. Update to Chrome 149.0.7827.102 now — all platforms are affected.
China's NDRC ordered Meta to ditch its $2B Manus AI acquisition in April, ruling that the deal violated technology export rules — even though Manus had already relocated to Singapore. The founders are now raising $1B to buy the company back and take it to a Hong Kong IPO.
The German humanoid startup secured backing from Amazon, NVIDIA, Tether, and Bosch at a $7 billion valuation. The capital goes toward scaling its Physical AI platform and beginning mass shipments of its 4NE-1 humanoid robot in late 2026.