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  • Google ran a mole inside the TeamPCP supply-chain gang

    The inside view of the worst supply-chain spree on record Reporting by WIRED’s Andy Greenberg, picked up by Ars Technica on Saturday, lays out something that sounds like a spy thriller but happened in a group chat: Google’s security subsidiary Mandiant had an undercover analyst inside TeamPCP’s inner circle for most of the hacking group’s…

  • Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 takes the open-weight crown and shows its RL receipts

    A car company just published the strongest open weights on the board Xiaomi released and fully open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 on September 21, and the flagship Pro model lands at 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That score puts it ahead of every other open-weight model on that leaderboard, above xAI’s Grok 4.6 and Google’s Gemini…

  • Azure Sphere OS 26.09 ships everywhere after the longest evaluation window yet

    The update that took six months of testing to do almost nothing Azure Sphere OS 26.09 has reached general availability, wrapping up an evaluation run that started in late July and stretched all the way to September. Microsoft’s own description of the release is almost comically modest: no customer-facing changes. What the release actually contains…

  • Playwright Workspaces goes GA in three more Azure regions

    Microsoft has taken Playwright Workspaces to general availability in Australia East, Japan East, and Switzerland North, bringing the managed browser-testing service to seven regions in total. For teams in those three areas it removes the awkward compromise of running end-to-end browser suites against cloud browsers an ocean away. What the service actually does Playwright Workspaces…

  • Qwen Image 2.1 lands as open weights with a license catch

    Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen Image 2.1 as open weights on September 20, and it hit the top of Hacker News within hours. The model unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in a single 7B-parameter network, adds native transparency support, and ships with day-zero integrations across Diffusers, ComfyUI, and vLLM. There is one detail you…

  • Confidential VMs for Azure Linux reach GA in AKS

    Microsoft has taken Confidential VMs for Azure Linux to general availability in Azure Kubernetes Service. Teams running sensitive container workloads can now build AKS node pools on hardware-encrypted VMs, and the announcement stresses the part that matters most: no application code changes are required. What a confidential VM actually gives you A confidential virtual machine…

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