T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

In its complaint, T-Mobile said it has tens of thousands of virtual machines using VMware software across approximately 303,140 CPU cores. It also said that it was migrating off VMware but noted the time-consuming and technical challenges involved in migrating over 1,000 applications.

It filed its lawsuit, which was first reported by The Register today, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in August 2025 (PDF).

The mobile company claimed that in 2023, it bought perpetual VMware licenses, plus two years of support with the option to buy a third year. But after Broadcom bought VMware, it stopped sales of VMware perpetual licenses in favor of subscriptions and started bundling VMware products into a few, more expensive bundles.

When T-Mobile tried to extend support for a third year for $5,288,398.45, Broadcom wouldn’t allow it, per an August 2025 filing from T-Mobile. A Broadcom representative reportedly told T-Mobile via email: “Broadcom announced end of available of all perpetual products, which includes Stated Out Year Renewals for perpetual support.”

A judge granted T-Mobile an injunction that allowed it to receive support services from October 2025 through August 3, 2026, for $5.28 million, plus the posting of a $500,000 undertaking.

Now, T-Mobile seeks a declaration that it was entitled to renew support services and further relief as the court deems necessary.

Shenzhen hosted the June 30 event where UBTECH introduced its UWORLD U1 series to the world. The company presented these full-size machines as the first humanoid robots of their kind built for mass production and everyday consumer use rather than factory work alone.

Designers went to great measures to make the robots appear realistic by giving them silicone skin with all the proper characteristics, such as pores, veins, and fingerprints. Guys stand 183cm tall and weigh 42kg, while girls are slightly smaller at 168cm and 35.2kg. Despite their realistic sizes, they do not appear overly large or out of place in a household environment, which has to be a significant plus.

Unitree R1 Humanoid Robot (White, R1 Air)

• Three models, one lightweight platform R1 Air (20 DOF, monocular camera), R1 (26 DOF, binocular camera, head+waist joints), and R1 Edu (26 DOF…
• Easy setup – no coding required for basic use Unbox, power on, and start. Manual teaching feature: physically pose the robot, and it replays the…
• More DOF = more expressive movement 26‑DOF models (R1 / R1 Edu) add head and waist articulation for smoother dance and running. For safety reasons…

Engineers were able to fit 88 degrees of freedom into each bot utilizing servo joints and a clever proprietary neck design, allowing the robots to mimic human movements much more effortlessly. They can sit, lean, lie back, and give a gentle hug. Everything you would expect a human to do. In early displays, it was really fascinating to see robots dancing with their human partners, because the flawless transitions between upper body and leg movements made them appear to be in sync.

Of course, all that great technology would be useless without some serious software to back it up. So UBTECH went to considerable pains to create an emotion-aware language model that can detect a wide range of subtle clues, including facial emotions, body posture, voice tone, and even how you speak in different contexts. In tests, it detected approximately 20 different emotional states with an accuracy of more than 90%. The system is divided into two parts: a super fast local response that provides answers in less than 500 milliseconds and a deeper level of reasoning that kicks in when more thoughtful responses are required. To make it all feel more natural, the lip movements are perfectly in sync with the speech, so there is no lag that can disrupt the flow of conversation.

When it comes to memory, the robot records all of its interactions in encrypted form on a local device, similar to an agent-based operating system that gradually accumulates a picture of your everyday routines and preferences. The majority of the processing occurs on the device itself, with a Rockchip RK3588 chip doing the most of the work, but there are three layers of privacy protection built in to ensure your data remains secure. It’s quite fantastic stuff. The best aspect is that you don’t need to wake it up with a specific word; simply start chatting and it will begin reacting, as well as maintaining eye contact. The battery life is also good, with 2 to 4 hours of vigorous use on a single charge. If you want to take things to the next level, you may connect it to the internet and gain access to more complex capabilities.

As you’d imagine, there are several variants to choose from, so you may find one that fits your budget and needs. The Lite model is the basic level, focusing solely on the upper body, and it is reasonably priced at 119,800 RMB ($17,632). The Pro model up the ante to a full body, allowing you to move around more, whereas the Ultra model is the top of the line, with dynamic movement, tons of more power, and a plethora of customizing possibilities. That one costs a whopping 990,000 RMB ($145,707) for the males and 880,000 RMB ($129,517) for the females. You can pre-order it today with a 3,000 RMB ($441) deposit, and more than 13,000 individuals have done so since pre-orders began. It’s important to note that sales are only available to those above the age of 18. UBTECH hopes to start shipping the robots later in 2026.

Next spring could be a fiesta of new iPads, MacBooks and iPhones.

devops

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

Anthropic has released the latest version of its mid-sized model, Sonnet 5, which the company claims is its most “agentic” yet. 

For developers writing agents to automate tedious and recurring tasks, Sonnet 5 promises improved capabilities in reasoning, tool use, coding, and knowledge work. This version is also less likely to pull embarrassing (for Anthropic) gaffes of misunderstanding, so the company asserts.

“Our safety assessments found that Sonnet 5 shows an overall lower rate of undesirable behaviors than Sonnet 4.6, and is generally safer to use in agentic contexts,” the company asserted in an introductory blog post on Tuesday. 

Sonnet 5 is smarter at refusing malicious requests and resisting prompt-injection attempts. It doesn’t hallucinate as often and doesn’t suck up to the user so much (“sycophancy”) as did its older brown-nosing Sonnet 4.6 sibling. It is also more aware of, and can block, user misuse and deception, the benchmarks in Anthropic’s System Card seem to indicate.

Sonnet is the default model for Claude Free and Pro users, and is also available to the token-pinching Max, Team, and Enterprise customers.

The benchmarks also indicate Sonnet 5’s performance can come close to that of Anthropic’s flagship enterprise-focused Opus 4.8, but can execute the same tasks more cost effectively.  For Opus, Anthropic charges $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

Starting in September, Sonnet users will pay $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, though Anthropic is running a special through the end of August where tokens will only be $2 per million inputs and $10 per million outputs. 

So users trimming their token budgets can run jobs through Sonnet instead of Opus, the company suggests. 

The 5.0 release offers a new setting to adjust the model’s effort at completing tasks. Simple tasks can be completed through one of the lower “effort” settings, which uses fewer tokens, while longer-running agent-based tasks can go full throttle (“xhigh” or even Homer Simpson’s favorite setting, “max”). 

What Sonnet 5 can do for developers

For much of 2026, AI product deployment has focused on equipping large language models to complete what has become known as  “long horizon tasks.” It might be easy for a model to fix a bug or churn out some code. However, keeping its finicky attention fixed on a multi-part task has proven more difficult.

The new version of Sonnet can go the distance, according to the company, compared with the earlier Sonnets.

“Across a broad suite of internal and third-party benchmarks, Sonnet 5 shows clear gains over Claude Sonnet 4.6 in coding, agentic search, multimodal reasoning, and professional-task performance,” the System Card asserted. 

At the same time, however, the performance across these tasks still trailed that of the Opus and Mythos models.

One testimonial from a Zapier engineer described a two-part job that flummoxed earlier Sonnets: Update a contact database and send out a notice to all users. Version 5 was able to complete the task “end to end.”

Cybersecurity: Nothing to see here

The San Francisco-based company also went out of its way not to attract any more undue attention from Washington, DC policymakers. 

“We did not deliberately train Sonnet 5 on cybersecurity tasks,” the company asserted. 

In June, the US Commerce Department, citing national security concerns, slapped Anthropic with an export control directive temporarily restricting foreign access to the newly released Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. Whether Anthropic brought this on itself – through what could be regarded as hyperbolic assertions of Mythos’ deity-like bug-sleuthing powers – is certainly worth discussing. But Anthropic, like Pete Townshend, certainly won’t be fooled again.

While it can readily perform routine cybersecurity tasks, Sonnet 5 is guardrailed against generating offensive attack code. When commanded to write a Firefox exploit, it failed to complete the task (though it got a bit further than Sonnet 4.6 in the attempt). 

“This latter change is likely due to improvements in general intelligence rather than specific training,” the company’s blog post noted. ®

• Minix ER939-AI Pro dual 10GbE networking hints at workloads beyond ordinary desktop computing
• The Radeon 8060S removes the need for separate graphics hardware entirely
• Four simultaneous 8K displays push this machine beyond typical mini PCs

Minix has released the ER939-AI, a mini PC running AMD‘s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor with 16 cores, 32 threads, and a boost clock reaching up to 5.1 GHz.

A Pro variant with dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet and a leather-like carry handle on the chassis has also been announced, sitting above the base model in every measurable specification.

A 360-degree camera records everything in every direction at once. That freedom comes with trade-offs in most models, whether through high prices, fiddly controls, or footage that needs heavy cleanup later. DJI’s first dedicated effort in this category, the Osmo 360, priced at $349 (was $467), arrives with larger sensors than most rivals, strong stabilization, and a price that lands the Standard Combo in a more reachable range for enthusiasts who want immersive video without jumping to the most expensive options on the market.

The camera body is approximately 61 by 36 by 81 millimeters and weighs 183 grams, resulting in a compact brick-like design with lenses on either side and a 2-inch touchscreen on one side of the camera, making it quite simple to navigate. A few physical buttons control power, shutter, and quick view modes; meanwhile, a 1/4-inch tripod thread is neatly tucked away at the bottom, along with DJI’s magnetic fast-release technology, which allows you to use mounts common with its action-cam series. Overall, it’s a little, unobtrusive product that fits neatly into a pocket or attaches onto a bag.

Inside are two 1/1.1-inch sensors with 2.4-micron pixels and f/1.9 apertures. The square design allows the camera to get more information from each sensor for the spherical image, which improves detail and light gathering. You can shoot video in a native 8K resolution (7680 by 3840) at 50 frames per second in full 360 mode, with 10-bit color depth and D-Log M profile support for color grading later if you want to get serious about it. Single lens modes can capture 5K at 60fps or 4K at 120fps for more classic wide-angle shots. For still images, you get a stunning 120 megapixels in complete 360 panoramic form, or approximately 31 megapixels from a single lens.

Real-world footage from reviewers shows some pretty sharp results, decent colors, and a strong dynamic range that holds up in daylight. The bigger pixels significantly improve low-light performance, and there is even a specific SuperNight mode, however very low-light/high-motion movies will require additional post-production effort. Stabilization is excellent, combining RockSteady 3.0 with HorizonSteady to keep vistas flat and smooth out any walking/panning movement. Furthermore, the software does an excellent job of removing hardware from the final spherical file the majority of the time, so you can wave goodbye to a lot of selfie-stick crap.

The battery life is approximately 100 minutes of continuous 8K recording at 30 frames per second with the included 1950mAh pack, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that this actually holds up well in testing. The battery is replaceable and compatible with some of the most recent Osmo Action models, which can be useful when traveling with several devices. Charging is done via USB-C Power Delivery and isn’t too slow; a full recharge takes a decent amount of time given the capacity. Storage is a generous 128 GB to begin with, with approximately 105 GB usable, and there is also a microSD slot that takes cards up to 1 TB, which helps to lessen the need to swap cards mid-shoot on longer days.

Four standard built-in microphones provide great audio, but when you combine the camera directly with DJI wireless microphones, things become interesting. You can connect two microphones to the camera without needing a separate receiver, allowing you to record high-quality speech tracks with the 360 footage. The Standard Combo, which includes the camera, a battery, pouch, cleaning cloth, USB-C cable, and lens cover, is a nice place to start; however, if you want more goods, you might be better off looking at higher-tier bundles or purchasing them individually.

cyber-crime

It’s a ‘complete BEC operations environment,’ Talos researcher says

EvilTokens, the device-code phishing kit that can allow criminals to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and silently authenticate as the victim to the organization’s Microsoft 365 applications, appears to be even more insidious than we all thought.

Cisco Talos incident responders on Wednesday described how the lure reaches a victim’s inbox, and revealed new capabilities alongside a “more sophisticated evasion approach” than documented in earlier EvilTokens research.

Talos uncovered a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operator panel, branded “ARToken,” that appears to be an EvilTokens customer, according to security research engineer Michael Kelley, who noted the phishing operation shares infrastructure, API contracts, and operational patterns with the EvilTokens platform.

EvilTokens was first documented by French cybersecurity firm Sekoia in March, and in April Microsoft said the device-code phishing campaign was compromising hundreds of organizations daily. 

“Since March 15, 2026, we have observed 10 to 15 distinct campaigns launching every 24 hours,” Microsoft VP of security research Tanmay Ganacharya told El Reg at the time. “Each campaign is distributed at scale, targeting hundreds of organizations with highly varied and unique payloads, making pattern-based detection more challenging.”

While most subsequent analysis has covered EvilTokens’ panel and phishing kit, “what it has not shown is how an ARToken lure actually reaches an inbox,” Kelley said on Wednesday. “Talos recovered two near-identical messages, sent roughly four minutes apart on April 20, 2026, that initiate the chain. The tradecraft is targeted, not spray-and-pray.”

Specifically, the email lure abused a real vendor relationship between a US life-sciences company and a legitimate plumbing and fire-protection contractor. The email uses an outstanding-invoice lure, telling the life-sciences company that “the following invoices appear to still be outstanding,” and the “from” header presents the contractor’s real domain. The reply-to, however, redirects replies to an unrelated domain.

Even the visible anchor text in the body of the email reads as the vendor’s genuine SharePoint tenant, we’re told. The actual href, however, points to a near-identical copycat tenant under a different, attacker-controlled Microsoft 365 workspace. But because the destination is still a legitimate sharepoint.com host, the email is less likely to be flagged as a phish.

During its investigation into the ARToken phishing infrastructure, Cisco uncovered the connections to EvilTokens – including an identical API contract to the one originally documented by Sekoia and matching deployment and operational models – as well as “notably more sophisticated” anti-analysis and evasion capabilities.

ARToken’s panel also revealed a very comprehensive post-exploitation toolkit that provides token management and persistence mechanisms, and a built-in business email compromise (BEC) tool with full Microsoft Outlook inbox read access, email sending capabilities as the victim, inbox rule creation for forwarding and deleting messages, and keyword-based monitoring across all compromised accounts.

“These features indicate the platform is more mature than a simple device code phishing kit – it is a complete BEC operations environment,” Kelley wrote. ®