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A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it

A critical vulnerability in WP Maps Pro, a commercial WordPress plugin with more than 15,000 sales on the Envato Market, is being actively exploited by attackers to create malicious administrator accounts on vulnerable sites. The flaw,...

Jun 01, 2026

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Apple is building a bill-splitting feature that photographs receipts and assigns items to friends

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.

A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it

Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI

Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password

IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse

Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares

Anthropic’s IPO filing means Salesforce’s early AI bet is about to become its most profitable investment

A GTA V cheat service that promised “enhanced privacy” just got hacked, exposing 64,000 accounts

Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem

The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself

A strike at one Michigan axle plant could choke production of GM’s most profitable vehicles

Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO, potentially beating OpenAI to Wall Street after eclipsing it in valuation

Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI

QTREX is betting on the layer beneath quantum computing

Salesforce is acquiring Contentful to give Agentforce a content layer that can assemble experiences on the fly

Akeso’s lung cancer drug reduces death risk by 34%, marking the first Chinese drug at ASCO’s top stage in 61 years

AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed

US export controls are pushing China’s AI chip industry away from GPUs and toward custom silicon

LG Electronics has quadrupled this year. The catalyst: a meeting with Jensen Huang about physical AI.

Jensen Huang opens Computex with Vera Rubin in production and a move into Windows PCs

Nadella quietly dismantled Microsoft’s leadership structure. The SLT that ran the company for decades is gone.

AI eclipsed nuclear weapons as the dominant threat at Asia’s premier defense summit

PLD Space raises its Kourou launch-complex investment to €35m

Nvidia looks beyond China’s Unitree for its humanoid robot push

Runway picks London for its European headquarters with a $200m UK pledge

Vertice buys Vendr to build what it calls the largest procurement dataset

Meta’s employee mouse-click tracking tool is collecting EU data it said it would not collect

NVIDIA names Anthropic and OpenAI among first users of its Vera chip

Two days to go: TNW’s Amsterdam gathering on what it takes to win in AI-native SaaS

MiniMax eyes a Shanghai listing after a 400% run in Hong Kong

ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company on the AI rally

China formalises tougher outbound-investment rules after the Meta-Manus blockade

US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad

Revolut, Mistral and Wayve founders back Balderton’s ‘Built in Europe’ push

Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory

China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI

Apple destroyed the mid-tier watch market. Now it’s coming for the $200 billion eyewear industry.

Tesla has 42 robotaxis in Texas. Waymo has 577. The gap is now public record.

LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs

DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% after Google killed the blue links. On Apple devices, the spike hit 70%.

The people who trained Tesla’s self-driving AI won’t ride in it

SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.

Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial

Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.