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Contentful just changed owners. On June 1, 2026, Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy the headless CMS pioneer, and the deal closed on September 1, 2026 — yesterday, as of this writing. Salesforce never confirmed the price tag, but The Information pegged it between $1 billion and $1.5 billion, a number multiple outlets have…
It’s Wednesday, September 2, 2026, and today’s tech news is less about new toys than new limits. OpenAI just rated its next model a critical cyber risk. Texas froze data-center power hookups after a rush of “ghost” demand. New York […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 2, 2026: Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Perplexity,…
A federal judge ordered an end to practices that depress ad rates for web publishers, but declined to order a divestiture of Google’s ad exchange and other technology.
Reports of Xbox Live suffering outages preventing players from logging in and playing their games have recently started flooding in. Microsoft is aware of the situation and is currently investigating a way to fix it.
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and sports betting. Check Point Research said it has tracked the campaign since mid-2025. The modules
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository’s own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer’s machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command executes as the user, outside the agent’s sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation…
HiddenLayer has raised a $100M Series B from Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft’s M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.
This is Adobe’s second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
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