Scan.com raises $220 million across equity and debt financing
Scan.com has raised $220 million in financing, comprising a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities. The company uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers according to availability, pric...
Brave releases patch for reported exploited V8 flaw
Brave released desktop version 1.94.121 with a fix for CVE-2026-85046, a Chromium V8 JavaScript-engine vulnerability the company said had been exploited in the wild. The browser maker urged users to install the update and relaunch...
Microsoft reports ASCII-smuggling use in email spam
Microsoft said email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, a technique used to conceal malicious instructions in AI-agent prompt-injection attacks, to evade email-platform filters. The reported shift applies the obfuscation techn...
US and UK sign scam-center information-sharing agreement
The United States and United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers and share information. The initiative targets centers, many based in Southeast Asi...
Study links unusual ZrTe5 oscillations to reentrant Landau levels
Researchers studying zirconium pentatelluride reported quantum oscillations that persisted beyond the quantum limit under magnetic fields up to 60 tesla and temperatures near 0.7 kelvin. Their experiments and calculations attribut...
OpenRouter lists GPT-6 Astra with million-token context
OpenRouter listed GPT-6 Astra on September 4, offering an OpenAI-compatible API route to the model. The listing describes a 1,050,000-token context window, support for files and function calling, and prices of $10 per million inpu...
