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In a span of 24 hours, three major organizations — France's tax authority, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and private equity firm Apollo Global Management — disclosed data breaches affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals, underscoring a relentless wave of cyberattacks targeting government agencies, healthcare institutions, and financial giants.
Apple has laid off more than 200 employees from its Vision Pro and Siri teams, according to a Bloomberg report, including the near-shutdown of the Vision Pro gaming team and significant reductions to immersive content production. The cuts come as the company says it is evolving its business to deliver better user experiences, though they raise questions about the future of two high-profile initiatives that have faced mixed reception since launch.
A security researcher who inadvertently hijacked a portion of the global phone number routing system has logged hundreds of thousands of misdirected calls, including many to US military bases, revealing a little-known vulnerability in how telephone numbers are resolved on the internet.
Security researchers at Adversa AI have uncovered a novel prompt injection attack against xAI's Grok chatbot that uses encrypted malicious instructions to evade content filters, enabling the exfiltration of user chat history and personal information. Despite being notified of the vulnerability in June 2026, Grok remains exploitable as of August 2026, raising concerns about the fundamental security of large language models (LLMs).
Microsoft has fixed a maximum-severity vulnerability in its Entra ID identity and access management service that attackers were already exploiting in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-69836 and carrying a CVSS score of 10.0, stems from unsafe deserialization and allows unauthenticated remote code execution over the network. Microsoft disclosed the issue on Thursday, stating that it has been fully mitigated server-side without requiring any action from customers.