Today in tech · Saturday, August 8
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NVD adds CVE-2026-67308 for a shell injection flaw in Wazuh GitHub Actions workflows before commit 44bf114. Attackers submit pull requests with crafted VERSION.json files to inject commands into environment variables. T…
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Around the pillars
Anthropic confirms worldwide Claude outage
Anthropic confirms a worldwide outage of its Claude AI service and API. Users receive 529 Overloaded errors on requests. The firm began investigating at 7:49 p.m. UTC on July 29, 2026, identified the cause at 8:33 p.m.…
Electronic Arts Completes $55 Billion Take-Private Deal
Electronic Arts completes its $55 billion all-cash acquisition by a consortium of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake, becoming a private company. The deal closed August 4, 2026, af…
CXMT jumps 466% in Shanghai debut to eclipse all other China-listed firms
CXMT rises 466 percent in its first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, becoming the most valuable China-listed firm at 3.3 trillion yuan after raising 57.92 billion yuan in its IPO. Rising global AI demand has tu…
Base Power unveils 39.2-kWh Core battery after landing $1B in fresh capital
Base Power introduces its 39.2 kWh Core battery after raising $1 billion. The unit supplies up to 36 hours of whole-home backup, installs in under an hour, and joins the company's virtual power plant network during norm…
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