2026-08-16 Briefing

Cisco Talos exposed a new real-time phishing kit mimicking PayPal and Apple that lets attackers view card details and verification codes before submission. Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki is pivoting to music, movies, and games, away from TVs. Malaysia’s Q2 GDP rose 6% on chipmaking and data centers. Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says LLM-solved math is mostly counterexamples, not proofs. Hugging Face…