Three things landed this week that are easy to misread. Here is what the primary sources actually say, and where I could not get to one.
1. DeepSeek's price change: nobody ran the flash column
New pricing takes effect August 16, 16:00 UTC.
Most coverage ran the numbers for v4-pro. The v4-flash column is going up too, and I have seen almost nobody quote it.
Per million tokens, v4-flash:
| today | peak | off-peak | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cache hit input | $0.0028 | $0.014 | $0.007 |
| cache miss input | $0.14 | $0.44 | $0.22 |
| output | $0.28 | $1.32 | $0.66 |
And v4-pro:
| today | peak | off-peak | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cache hit input | $0.003625 | $0.044 | $0.022 |
| cache miss input | $0.435 | $1.32 | $0.66 |
| output | $0.87 | $3.96 | $1.98 |
The part that trips people up: off-peak is exactly half of peak, but both tiers sit above today's price. v4-pro cache hit goes from $0.003625 to $0.022 off-peak, roughly 6x. Scheduling into off-peak saves you half the increase, not a return to current pricing.
The docs give peak hours in UTC only: 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00. If your team runs on China time that is 09:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00, which is exactly the working day. Worth knowing before you move batch jobs around.
Source: DeepSeek official API pricing page, checked 2026-08-15.
2. "Firefox is the last browser with uBlock Origin" is not quite right
A post with that headline hit 1099 points on HN. The top-voted reply says simply not true, and it is correct: Brave still ships uBlock Origin.
The two are not the same mechanism, and that distinction matters more than the headline does:
- Firefox never removed the extension APIs. Any content blocker can do this work, and nobody has to approve it.
- Brave self-hosts a specific set of MV2 extensions on its own servers after upstream Chromium removed them: uBlock Origin, AdGuard, NoScript, uMatrix. Four items, curated by Brave.
- Chrome and Edge have dropped it.
So if you depend on a blocker that is not on Brave's list, "Brave still supports MV2" does not cover you.
One detail from the same thread deserves more attention than the headline: Firefox reviews uBlock's code on every update to check the developer has not shipped something malicious. That is a property of the Recommended Extensions program, not something every browser does.
3. OpenAI rated its own model High for cyber capability
GPT-5.6-Cyber is, under OpenAI's own Preparedness Framework, the first model to reach the High threshold for cybersecurity capability. High, not Critical.
The number going around: it completes 95% of advanced security requests, against 2% for Sol under Daybreak Blue. That is a refusal-rate delta, not a capability benchmark. The two get conflated in headlines.
Access is gated to approved individuals and organizations with identity verification, and hardware security keys become mandatory for individual Daybreak accounts on September 1.
Caveat on this section: OpenAI's own newsroom returned 403 to me, so the figures above come from several secondary reports that agree with each other. Treat them as reported rather than verified first-hand. The first two sections I checked against the primary source directly.
If you only act on one
Make it the pricing one. It has a deadline, and the flash column is the part most people have not looked at.
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