Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
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.
Microsoft released its largest-ever Patch Tuesday update today, fixing 208 vulnerabilities including a wormable CVSS 9.8 kernel flaw — and a researcher immediately responded by publishing a fresh Windows Defender zero-day exploit.