LinkLoot newsroom

Product updates and useful context

Read updates about tools and digital products, see what has changed, and find the available sources in each article. Browse the archive pages for earlier posts.

Articles and guides

Keep reading and explore a topic

Find longer articles in the blog, explore a topic through the guides, or browse earlier news.
Tools & Apps
7/25/2026 4 min

Vercel WAF now protects Blob stores in beta

Vercel has extended its Web Application Firewall to Vercel Blob stores in beta, letting teams apply deny, challenge, and rate-limit rules to file traffic without changing blob URLs or application code.

Read update
Tools & Apps
7/25/2026 4 min

PAN-OS GlobalProtect flaw now leads to Qilin ransomware intrusions

Arctic Wolf says CVE-2026-0257 has moved from observed GlobalProtect exploitation to Qilin ransomware intrusions, giving PAN-OS administrators a concrete reason to re-check patched versions, cookie settings, VPN logs, and credential exposure.

Read update
AI & Automation
7/25/2026 4 min

GitHub MCP Server adds stateless support for the July 28 MCP spec

GitHub has updated its MCP Server for the July 28, 2026 Model Context Protocol release, giving agent-tooling teams an early production signal for the new stateless core, extensions, and conformance-test path.

Read update
AI & Automation
7/25/2026 5 min

NVIDIA opens Medical Physics Simulation for healthcare robotics

NVIDIA has open sourced a GPU-accelerated Medical Physics Simulation framework inside Isaac for Healthcare, pairing classical physics with Cosmos-H Dreams for surgical robotics training and evaluation.

Read update
AI & Automation
7/25/2026 5 min

MiniMax releases M3 with 1M context and native multimodal input

MiniMax has released M3, a 428B-parameter open-weight model that combines a 1M-token context window, native text-image-video input, and agent-focused coding benchmarks.

Read update
AI & Automation
7/25/2026 5 min

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 for everyday agent work

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5 across Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude API, positioning it as the default Opus model for high-end daily coding, knowledge work, and long-running agent tasks.

Read update