Anthropic's Decart exit, Mistral's 3B round, an N-able zero-day - September 8, 2026
Anthropic walks away from a $6B acquisition after due diligence, Mistral raises a record 3 billion euro round, and actively exploited flaws hit N-able N-central and 122,500 internet-facing MikroTik devices.
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Segment 1
Anthropic has walked away from its $6bn Decart deal, Bloomberg reports
https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-walks-away-decart-6bn-acquisitionMistral makes sovereign open-weight AI to frontier
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/N-able patches critical N-central zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-86218)
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/07/n-able-n-central-hotfix-cve-2026-86218/Hackers exploit RouterOS flaws to hijack MikroTik devices without authentication
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/07/mikrotik-routeros-ssh-vulnerabilities-exploited/Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/mathspace-data-breach-metabase-vulnerability/I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
https://mcpherrin.ca/2026/09/07/rsa.htmlLeaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/09/leaving-vmware-just-got-harder-after-broadcom-pulled-vddk-downloads/Among European companies that use a CDN, nearly 9 in 10 use Cloudflare
https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-cdn-concentration-cloudflare-nine-in-tenJellyfin 12.0
https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0/Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/stoke-space-raises-another-billion-to-rival-spacex-at-re-flying-rockets/Segment 12
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