Today’s tech news turns on access: companies widen what their platforms and products can do, while regulators, attackers, and gatekeepers shape who gets to use them. From AI model updates and satellite internet ambitions to cloud security failures and ad-platform restrictions, co...
Today’s tech news turns on access: companies widen what their platforms and products can do, while regulators, attackers, and gatekeepers shape who gets to use them. From AI model updates and satellite internet ambitions to cloud security failures and ad-platform restrictions, control over distribution remains the central theme.
Attackers use a compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup credential to access 173 Microsoft 365 tenants, giving them unauthorized administrative entry across multiple customer environments. The incident highlights how a single stolen credential at a service provider can cascade across many organizations and turn backup or management tooling into a broad access point.
DeepSeek releases its V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint with updated performance across its website, app, and API, while also adding access to a new Search API. The update expands both the model’s capabilities and the ways developers can build on DeepSeek’s platform, signaling a push to make its tools more broadly usable in products and services.
Starlink says it is prepared to launch high-speed internet service in India and points to government approvals as part of that readiness. The move comes amid a broader dispute over satellite broadband in India, where regulatory decisions and competition with domestic players are shaping how quickly the market opens to new entrants.
Mercedes-AMG unveils the all-electric GT SUV, its first ground-up SUV, with as much as 1,153 horsepower and charging capability up to 710 kilowatts. The model uses three axial-flux electric motors and targets the top end of the electric performance market, underscoring how legacy luxury brands are escalating the power and charging race in EVs.
TikTok permanently suspends an advertising account used to promote Alex Gibney’s documentary “Musk” ahead of the film’s wider release. The move raises fresh questions about how major platforms police political or sensitive promotional content, especially when access to paid distribution can directly affect a project’s visibility at launch.
MeshXFS emerges as an open-source effort to turn XFS into a shared clustered file system that multiple Linux servers can mount and write to at once. The project also serves as a test case for AI-generated systems software, with its clustering code reportedly produced without human line-by-line coding or review in a safety-critical domain.
Top Tech stories
- TikTok permanently suspends ad account promoting Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary (5 sources)
- Mercedes-AMG unveils electric GT SUV with up to 1,153 hp and up to 710 kW charging (4 sources)
- DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint with updated performance and new search API (3 sources)
- Compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup credentials used to access 173 Microsoft 365 tenants (3 sources)
- MeshXFS uses AI-written code to adapt XFS into a shared clustered file system (2 sources)
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