Daily Digest - July 18, 2026
Anthropic looks to lease ten billion dollars of compute from a direct rival, Amazon bills some cloud customers billions by accident, ransomware crews chain two SonicWall zero-days, and Patreon stops politely asking AI scrapers to stay out.
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Anthropic in talks to lease ten billion dollars of compute from Meta
https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-meta-10-billion-compute-deal-talks -
Databricks hits a one hundred eighty-eight billion dollar valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/databricks-hits-188b-valuation-extending-its-run-as-ais-favorite-second-act/ -
Amazon bills some cloud customers billions of dollars by mistake
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/amazon-fixing-bug-that-billed-some-aws-customers-billions-of-dollars/ -
Inc ransomware exploits two SonicWall remote access zero-days
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/inc-ransomware-exploits-sonicwall-sma-zero-days -
An unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw called LegacyHive
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-windows-legacyhive-zero-day-exploit-grants-hackers-admin-access/ -
Seven zip patches a heap overflow in X Z decompression
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/169 -
A T P Link camera exposed home coordinates for six years
https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa_EC71.md -
San Francisco orders Apple and Google to purge nudify apps
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/apple-and-google-ordered-to-purge-nudify-apps-from-app-stores/ -
Patreon stops asking AI crawlers to behave and starts blocking them
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/patreon-stops-asking-ai-bots-not-to-scrape-and-starts-blocking-them/ -
Zoox recalls robotaxi software after a smoke encounter
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/zoox-issues-software-recall-after-a-robotaxi-got-confused-by-heavy-smoke/ -
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