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AmnesiaStealer turns Mac browsers into live attacker drones

A new macOS infostealer, AmnesiaStealer clones Chromium profiles and gives attackers live control of logged-in browser sessions over CDP.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 17, 2026

Business

AI model price war: US labs cut mid-tier as China closes gap

AI model price war cut US token prices 25% since mid-July. OpenAI slashed Luna 80%, Anthropic halved Opus 5 vs Fable 5, as Chinese rivals close the gap.

Data Today Markets Desk · Aug 15, 2026

AI for dummies

Gemini 3.7 Flash explained: what beginners should know

Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's new fast AI model for coding and agents. It scores 43.6 percent on FrontierCode, up from 34.4, at half the old price.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 15, 2026

Research

Language switches warp LLM safety in high-stakes calls

In Japanese, Claude's nuclear strike recommendations fell from 93 to 17 percent, showing LLM safety depends on language and English-only evals miss risks.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 15, 2026

Research

LLM instruction following collapses past 6 constraints

LLM instruction following breaks past 5 to 6 simultaneous constraints. Per-constraint pass rates decay at 72% times 0.922 per step, probe success below 2% by k=9.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 15, 2026

Business

Apple trains a custom AI model for China with Alibaba

Apple Intelligence China rollout uses a custom LLM trained with Alibaba's Qwen, making Apple the first US firm approved to ship a proprietary AI model in China. The move reshapes how global builders approach the market.

Data Today Markets Desk · Aug 14, 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash lifts coding scores at half the price

Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's coding and agent workhorse. It beats 3.6 Flash across every benchmark Google published and undercuts Claude Sonnet 5 on output token price by roughly two-thirds, at $0.75 per million input tokens.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 14, 2026

Research

Detecting MoE route flips works, fixing them is near-random

Under KV-cache quantization, MoE route flips are detectable at AUC 0.772, but predicting their harm is at chance, which limits selective repair.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 14, 2026

AI for dummies

ChatGPT ads explained: what every free user should know

Only Free and Go users see ChatGPT ads. The sponsored placements launched in the U.S. in February 2026 and reached nine countries by August.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 13, 2026

AI for dummies

Qwen3.8 2.4T open weights: what beginners should know

Qwen3.8 open weights give you 2.4 trillion parameters with 95 billion active per token, Alibaba's largest. Here is what beginners should know.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 13, 2026

Cyber security

SharePoint CVE-2026-55040 auth bypass exploited after PoC

Attackers began exploiting the SharePoint auth bypass CVE-2026-55040, rated CVSS 9.1 and patched in July, after Rapid7 released a PoC on August 11.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 13, 2026

Engineering

Docker container vs virtual machine: what changes

A Docker container vs virtual machine comparison: containers share the host kernel and run isolated processes in megabytes, while VMs virtualize hardware and carry a full OS in gigabytes. The right base image and layer order cut a 2 GB image to under 100 MB.

Data Today Guides Desk · Aug 13, 2026