When you can’t bring prices down, turn back the clock.

The Claude creator will also put together a new team in charge of designing the custom-made chips.

As first reported by the Business Insider, artificial intelligence company Anthropic has confirmed plans to design its own chips in response to a worldwide shortage and increased pressure to develop faster, more advanced AI systems.   

In April, it was reported by Reuters that the organisation was strongly considering building its own chips, as a means of having improved access to a steady supply and keeping pace with competitors Meta and OpenAI, both of which have similar projects underway.

The latter previously announced the development of the Broadcom-built Jalapeño chip, designed for inference workloads, while Meta has been developing its own ‘MTIA’ accelerators for AI workloads.

The timeline as to when Anthropic’s chip production might begin is unclear; however, the company is looking to add to its workforce in order to meet future AI development expectations. As per a recent job listing, Anthropic is seeking professionals eager to join a custom silicon team. 

It is currently unknown if the organisation will manufacture the chips by itself, but it has been previously reported that Anthropic may be looking at Samsung as a potential partner in the development of the chips. 

While building custom silicon is the next step in Anthropic’s ongoing AI and chip strategy, the company reportedly still intends to utilise a diversified hardware stack that includes technology from Amazon Web Services, Google, Nvidia and ​AMD. 

In late July, Anthropic announced plans to partner with AMD for 2GW of its latest-generation chips, in a bid to boost AI capacity and meet growing demands. The deal between the companies was reported to be worth “tens of billions of dollars”.

Anthropic is striving for dominance in the AI space ahead of a widely reported planned IPO, which is expected to value the company at more than $1trn. 

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Switzerland’s federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts.

The Federal Office for Information Technology and Telecommunication (BIT) detected the cyberattack after security specialists noticed unusual activity on its SharePoint servers on July 28.

After confirming the breach, BIT blocked external internet access to SharePoint, patched the suspected vulnerabilities, and reset the passwords for the affected accounts.

“During the analysis, security specialists discovered on Friday, July 31, that the login credentials for several accounts had been compromised,” BIT said.

The agency believes the attackers exploited SharePoint vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft in mid-July and fixed in the July Patch Tuesday updates. However, it has not disclosed which flaw was used.

The attack potentially involved either CVE-2026-56164, an actively exploited SharePoint privilege escalation vulnerability, or CVE-2026-50522, a critical remote code execution flaw later exploited to steal SharePoint machine keys and maintain access after servers were patched.

Both of these flaws were fixed as part of the July 2026 Patch Tuesday updates.

It remains unclear whether either vulnerability was used in the Swiss government attack or whether the attackers exploited another flaw fixed in the same updates.

BIT is investigating the incident with assistance from the Swiss Federal Office for Cyber Security and Microsoft.

So far, it has found no evidence that data was stolen beyond the compromised login credentials.

The agency said confidential information and particularly sensitive personal data are not permitted to be stored on the affected SharePoint platform.

BIT is reinstalling the compromised servers as a precaution, and external access will remain blocked until that work is completed.

Federal employees can continue accessing documents and sharing them with external personnel through alternative methods.

At this time, no ransomware or data extortion group has claimed responsibility for the breach.

BleepingComputer contacted BIT to ask which vulnerability was exploited and whether its investigation had uncovered evidence of data theft, but a response was not immediately available.

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from the cowards dept

Buc-ee’s trademark bullying ways continue! This company that has long been famous for its enormous gas station and convenience stores practically dripping in Americana is quickly building a national reputation for itself as a petulant trademark bully. It’s lawsuits are typically dumb and usually feature Buc-ee’s claim that it somehow owns every cartoon animal mascot depiction for convenience stores and gas stations, and even cartoon human mascots at times. It’s so bad that it even caught the attention of John Oliver recently, resulting in the show creating its own merchandise that is far more similar to the Buc-ee’s beaver than most of its lawsuit victims and Oliver literally begging them to file a lawsuit over it.

Well, the Buc-ee’s people appear to be cowards. Oliver made it clear that he and HBO have the willingness and legal war chest to do battle with Buc-ee’s. To date the company has not filed any lawsuit against Oliver or HBO. But it did just file another trademark suit against another small local convenience store after having just moved into the market.

Buc-ee’s, which opened its first location in Ohio earlier this year, is suing Beaver’s Mini Mart in Beavercreek for what they allege is trademark infringement. 

In the suit, filed days ago, Buc-ee’s alleges that the Mini Mart’s cartoon beaver mascot is too similar to their own, with its “wide eyes and a smile” that also “uses red as a predominant color,” and could cause confusion. 

The new Buc-ee’s location in Huber Heights, Ohio, is 16 miles from Beaver’s Mini Mart. Beaver’s Mini Mart customers say they have been shopping there for decades, while Buc-ee’s has existed in the Buckeye State only since April.

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This is common practice for Buc-ee’s. The company expands into a new market and goes on a trademark suit blitz against anyone using one of these cartoon animal logos, beaver or otherwise. It doesn’t matter how long the victim company has been doing business there. It doesn’t matter how ingrained into the community they are. It doesn’t matter if every local in the area insists that there’s no confusion to be had between the two entities.

In this case, the Beaver’s Mini Mart has been around for decades. The entire community is awash in beaver-y iconography. I’ll let one of our anonymous commenters from our John Oliver post chime in here.

They are now trying to sue a place near where I grew up, the “Beavers MiniMart” convenience store in Beavercreek Ohio, where the local high school, Beavercreek High School, once had Bucky the Beaver as a mascot for their football team, the Battling Beavers, their cheerleaders are called the Beaverettes and there’s pep squad called the Beaver Patrol. There’s concrete statues that are 6-8 feet tall, all over the city. The city loves it’s fuckin’ beavers. Buc-ee’s probably doesn’t know what’s about to happen to them. It wont be pretty.

The signage from Buc-ee’s own lawsuit show just how unalike the branding for the two companies is.

From this, and wielding a trademark Buc-ee’s somehow has on the word “Beaver’s” Buc-ee’s alleges that there will be “confusion among consumers,” that the Mini Mart is trading on Buc-ee’s “goodwill,” and that all of this is causing “irreparable injury” to Buc-ee’s.

Ironically, it appears this very lawsuit is causing a dip in all of that supposed goodwill Buc-ee’s has in this particular community.

“Reading into it more that Buc-ee’s has gone after other companies over this… It just put a bad taste in my mouth because they just seem like such a fun company,” resident Sam Bryan told Nexstar’s WDTN. “To see this, that they’re coming after a small business like this, it upset me like it did a lot of Beavercreek residents.”

The town is named Beavercreek, the branding doesn’t look anything alike, and nobody is going to be confused about any of this. Buc-ee’s knows all of that. But trademark bullies typically just can’t help themselves and this is yet another in a long list of bullshit trademark lawsuits the company has filed.

If Beaver’s Mini Mart fights this, however, it would be an interesting move in its defense to point out that there is no similar lawsuit against John Oliver.

Filed Under: john oliver, trademark, trademark bullying

Companies: beaver’s mini mart, buc-ee’s, hbo

Update: Added statement from Falcon extortion gang below.

A recent wave of cyberattacks targeting hedge funds, private-equity firms, and other financial organizations has been linked to UNC6671, an extortion group reportedly associated with the BlackFile threat actors.

The attribution comes after Reuters and Bloomberg reported that Point72 Asset Management, Millennium Management, Two Sigma Investments, Citadel, and several private-equity firms were targeted in recent attacks that relied on voice phishing (vishing) to trick employees into granting the attackers access to corporate systems.

Point72 reportedly told investors that it had been attacked but had not found evidence that client data was stolen, while Two Sigma said it had blocked an attempted intrusion and found no indication that its systems or data were affected.

Millennium declined to comment in response to questions from BleepingComputer. Citadel also declined to comment and referred BleepingComputer to Bloomberg’s reporting. Point72 and Two Sigma did not respond to requests for comment.

In response to questions from BleepingComputer, Austin Larsen, a principal threat analyst at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), said the company tracks the vishing activity as UNC6671.

“While previously operating under the public brand ‘BlackFile,’ UNC6671 has diversified its extortion operations across multiple public brands, including Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon,” Larsen told BleepingComputer.

“GTIG assesses that a single core intrusion group is driving the helpdesk vishing and cloud data theft across these various public extortion brands.”

BlackFile is a data theft extortion group that first emerged in February 2025 when it conducted a wave of attacks targeting retail and hospitality organizations.

According to Mandiant’s report, the group’s targeting switched in July 2026 toward private-equity firms, hedge funds, major law firms, and financial-rating agencies after previously targeting organizations in the manufacturing, healthcare, real-estate, technology, transportation, and hospitality sectors.

“Between January and May 2026, GTIG tracked over $10.6 million USD in Bitcoin payments to group wallets. While initial demands reach upwards of $3 million, operators routinely settle for around $750,000 USD after negotiations,” Larsen said.

After publishing our story, the Falcon extortion group released a statement on their data leak site disputing some of Mandiant’s reporting.

“Falcon is a Redact affiliate. We are exclusively a Redact affiliate. We are not affiliated with, connected to, or under the same umbrella as Helix, Pink, or any other group named in Mandiant’s reporting,” the threat actors posted on their data leak site.

“We share no operators, infrastructure, tooling, negotiation channels, or proceeds with any group other than Redact.”

In May 2026, BlackFile announced on its data leak site that it was rebranding under the name Redact, under which it would continue its operations.

Vishing attacks target cloud environments

UNC6671 operators typically contact employees on their personal mobile phones while spoofing corporate helpdesks and claiming that workers need to enroll in passkeys or update their multi-factor authentication settings.

Victims are then directed to domains impersonating the targeted employee’s company that host adversary-in-the-middle phishing kits designed to steal credentials and session cookies in real time.

After stealing Microsoft 365 or Okta single-sign-on accounts, the attackers log into the SSO dashboard, which gives access to all the cloud platforms that are linked to the account.

The hackers then use automated tools to steal data from all cloud services they gain access to and delete security notifications and password-reset emails from compromised inboxes.

Mandiant says the infrastructure and extortion network used in these attacks differ from those associated with Scattered Spider, which has historically employed similar helpdesk social-engineering tactics.

“While the helpdesk vishing and Adversary-in-the-Middle authentication interception share similarities with methods historically associated with Scattered Spider (UNC3944), GTIG tracks this specific infrastructure, domain registration pattern, and multi-brand extortion network as UNC6671,” Larsen told BleepingComputer.

Mandiant says it is currently assisting several dozen organizations compromised by UNC6671.

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Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems reported that more than 3.8 million people were impacted by a data breach incident that occurred in October 2025.

The organization submitted data breach notification samples to the authorities this year on July 1st without revealing the exact number of impacted individuals.

An entry on the breach notification portal of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services now shows that a company server was breached and data of 3,803,750 people was exposed to an unauthorized party.

Unlimited Technology Systems is a software company specializing in providing financial and revenue cycle technology for specialty healthcare providers. According to its website, the firm serves 4,500 clinics and 6,500 specialty healthcare providers across the United States, and processes more than $70 billion in net healthcare charges annually.

In October 2025, the firm detected unauthorized activity in its commercial data center and launched an investigation that revealed that hackers had accessed certain files for a five-day period.

“On October 19, 2025, Unlimited Technology Systems detected unauthorized activity within its commercial data center and launched an investigation with the assistance of a cybersecurity forensic firm,” the company disclosed on July 20, 2026.

“That investigation determined that, between October 5, 2025, and October 10, 2025, an unauthorized actor accessed files and may have obtained copies of personal information belonging to patients of the healthcare providers Unlimited serves.”

The data types that were potentially exposed in this incident include:

• Full names
• Social Security numbers
• Dates of birth
• Email and mailing addresses
• Phone numbers
• Demographic information
• Scans of driver’s licenses/other government IDs
• Insurance cards
• Intake forms
• Health insurance policy numbers
• Claims and benefits information
• Medical record numbers
• Dates of service
• Diagnosis information

The company notified law enforcement of the incident and began distributing data breach notices to affected patients on July 1, 2026.

According to the notification, no ransomware or data-extortion groups have publicly claimed responsibility, and Unlimited Technology Systems has not identified the perpetrators.

Because Unlimited Technology Systems processes information on behalf of healthcare organizations, affected patients typically have no direct relationship with the company itself, and receiving a notice of data breach from it can be confusing.

To mitigate the risk that arises from the exposure of sensitive data, notice recipients were offered identity monitoring services through Kroll.

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And it could explore all areas, regardless of illumination.

PROMISE the rover

So, when will we see PROMISE head to the moon?