Google is preparing to invest a headline-grabbing sum in Anthropic — at least $10 billion, with the potential to rise to $40 billion if the startup meets certain performance milestones. The deal follows a recent $5 billion commitment from Amazon and collectively values Anthropic at roughly $350 billion. This funding round underscores how hyperscalers are using capital, cloud services, and
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Microsoft Extends Windows 10 Extended Security Updates Through October 2027
Microsoft has quietly extended its consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10, pushing the cutoff for critical security patches out another year to October 12, 2027. The move gives millions of users who have not yet migrated to Windows 11 additional time to receive important and critical security fixes, while Microsoft continues to encourage upgrades to the newer OS. For those already enrolled in the consumer ESU program, coverage continues automatically under the new end date. What the…
Continue readingAnthropic’s Project Deal: Claude AI Agents Close 186 Deals and Reveal Market Asymmetries
When Anthropic turned its San Francisco office into a live, classified marketplace in December 2025, it wasn’t testing a new website so much as an idea: could autonomous Claude AI agents not only list items but negotiate and close real, multi-turn deals with zero human intervention? The answer, in the company’s “Project Deal” experiment, was a clear yes — and
PhantomRPC: New Windows RPC Vulnerability Lets Attackers Escalate Privileges Across All Windows Versions
PhantomRPC is an architectural weakness in the Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) runtime that allows low-privileged processes to escalate to SYSTEM or Administrator by impersonating privileged clients. Disclosed by Kaspersky’s Haidar Kabibo at Black Hat Asia 2026, the flaw stems from how rpcrt4.dll handles connections to unavailable RPC servers: when a privileged process attempts an RPC call to a server
Pastebin-Hosted PowerShell Script Hijacks Telegram Sessions: What Happened and How to Respond
Security researchers recently uncovered a PowerShell script posted on Pastebin that was purpose-built to steal Telegram session data from both desktop and web clients. Masquerading as a benign “Windows Telemetry Update,” the script quietly collects host metadata, locates Telegram session stores, compresses them into an archive, and exfiltrates the file to an attacker-controlled Telegram bot. The discovery is notable less
DeepSeek V4: a cheaper, larger LLM that narrows the gap with frontier models
Chinese lab DeepSeek has released preview details for DeepSeek V4, a major update the company says brings its models much closer to so-called frontier systems. The announcement introduces two variants — V4 Flash and V4 Pro — and highlights big increases in scale, a 1 million-token context window, and aggressive pricing that positions the models as lower-cost alternatives to high-end
CISA: Zimbra XSS (CVE-2025-48700) Now Exploited — 10,500+ Servers Vulnerable
Over 10,000 instances of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite are exposed online and remain vulnerable to an actively exploited cross-site scripting flaw, raising fresh alarms about email server security for governments and businesses alike. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-48700, is serious because it can be triggered without user interaction and has been confirmed as abused in the wild, prompting action from