OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.
The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data : A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identif
The sport is a marker of a particular relationship to the wider world.
As the United States closes itself off from the world, its co-host is doing the opposite.
Soccer is egalitarian. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is anything but.
Accusations of defense “freeloading” hit the third rail of Wellington’s politics.
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired: “We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.” Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. “We made t
Release: datasette-agent 0.2a0 Highlights from the release notes: Tools can now ask the user questions mid-execution. Tools that declare a context parameter receive a ToolContext object, and await context.ask_user(...) can ask a yes/no, multiple-choice ( optio
Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.
An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.
Cash App's AT&T-based MVNO will offer an unlimited 5G data plan for $40 per month including taxes and fees. The new mobile service is powered by Gigs, the same firm behind the Klarna mobile service that launched last year with the same pricing and is "roll
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), South Korea's data protection regulator, has fined e-commerce giant Coupang a record 624.6 billion won (roughly $409 million) following a massive data breach affecting more than 37 million customers [...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new Binding Operational Directive, 26-04, that prioritizes security updates for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. [...]
As summer returns, I'm again reminded of my limits as I head into the great outdoors: I can put up with a heavy, uncomfortable backpack, bug bites, mud, and even bland dehydrated food, but I will not forsake my morning brew. I've tried every imaginable coffee
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Inside soccer’s data renaissance Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intenti
Iran says it responded to US strikes by targeting American assets in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, which reported damage to its capital city overnight.
I played the ultimate game of strategy on a variety of smart chess boards to find the best for online and in-person matches.
With some matches being held in nearby Miami, a Cuban response to US military action could mar the tournament As Cuba crumbles under a nearly five-month-long US oil blockade, many on the island hope that the World Cup might save the island from US attack – or
Boox has announced a new version of its smallest e-reader that expands the Go 6's functionality to now include note-taking. The new Go 6 (Gen II) sticks with a 6-inch, 300PPI E Ink screen like its predecessor but gets a bump from 2GB to 3GB of RAM and now supp
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
Wednesday's result means the team are now just one win away from a famous Finals win.
Anthropic has apologized for stealthily throttling its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, with hidden guardrails that undermine both researchers and rivals using it to develop competing systems. The company says it is reversing course and will be more transparent a
These WIRED-tested ebook readers let you take your library anywhere.
Summer is almost here, and that means getting outside, having fun in the sun, and touching grass. But if you need to cool down for a bit, allow me to sing the praises of the library. If your local library system is anything like mine, it probably offers a lot
Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of
It’s the first estimate of how many Americans are sneaking onto Polymarket’s banned crypto-based platform.
If you're someone who needs to (or likes to) take their work on the go, a portable monitor will make a huge difference. These are my favorite that I tested.
Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira faces fraud charges after allegedly persuading family to take her into their home A 38-year-old woman has been arrested in Brazil accused of pretending to be a 12-year-old girl to deceive a couple who took her into their home for
The US vice-president says the Israeli leader "aggressively asserts" his country's interests, but they do not always align with those of the US.
During his trip, the Pope will appeal for a humane approach and respectful welcome for migrants seeking a better life.
It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its nuclear fleet since 2016, reaching nearly 60 gigawatts of total power capacity. The new facilities are nearly all gigawat
Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally send the ball all the way down the pitch and right out of bounds on the opponent’s end. Casual fans might scratch their heads. Where’s the logic in surrendering pos
In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use. For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy c
Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing some Windows Server 2025 devices to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the April 2026 security update. [...]
A few months ago, I attended a panel discussion for a wargame simulating rapid industrial mobilization for armed conflict. Conducted by a leading university, with teams composed of former senior defense officials, the game probed how government and industry co
The next war over Taiwan may be deterred not by aircraft carriers or nuclear arsenals, but by a Dutch lithography machine. ASML, headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, is the sole manufacturer of the extreme ultraviolet lithography systems required to pr
The University of Nottingham confirmed on Wednesday that a hacking group gained access to its student records system in a breach affecting both current students and alums. [...]
Washington is littered with the corpses of grand plans to restore the Merchant Marine. The Trump administration's Maritime Action Plan is the latest attempt, and to its credit, the most comprehensive since World War II.The plan is the government's blueprint to
Attackers are now targeting a recently patched maximum-severity flaw in Ivanti Sentry, enabling them to execute code with root privileges on Internet-exposed secure mobile gateways. [...]
Why the AI build-out was doomed from the start.
How China’s currency manipulation is warping the world economy.
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
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Alaska's multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk.
South Korean authorities issued the record-breaking fine following a data breach that affected over 30 million customers.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Our ancestors' genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.
Student Gunnar Hartmann wins Nature’s 2026 Scientist at Work photography competition for this shot of migrating northern bald ibis in Spain
For thirty years, vulnerability management ran on a buffer: the months between when a vulnerability was found and when someone could figure out how to weaponize it. The solution was straightforward enough; triage by severity, schedule the fix, validate, and mo
When a platform started with total developer autonomy, teams felt overwhelmed and ended up solving the same problems in completely different ways. The company shifted to enablement over support, working together with teams intensively, and helping teams feel c
With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch Close Encounter of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley
A study of 4.5 million people suggests that ex-smokers who take up vaping are more at risk of dying from lung cancer than people who quit without the use of e-cigarettes
Protect enterprise AI agents from supply chain risks by auditing third-party skills for hidden vulnerabilities and multi-stage attack chains. The post Trust No Skill: Integrity Verification for AI Agent Supply Chains appeared first on Unit 42 .
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at
OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, one month after OpenAI revised its exclusive Azure arrangement. Pricing matches OpenAI's direct rates with usage counting toward AWS commitments. Codex shifts to pay-per-token
Cindy Zhang discusses the evolution of XDS, a unified UI system powering 10,000+ internal tools. She shares actionable insights for architects and engineering leaders on managing large-scale community contributions, executing safe monorepo refactors using JS A
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a RADIUS protocol vulnerability affecting its Modicon Network Managed Switch product. The Modicon Network Managed Switch product provides connectivity for multiple Ethernet devices, network management, enhanced
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about the European Union’s digital sovereignty push. A divorce from US tech giants is on the cards, but building sovereign infrastructure and chip capacity will be hard. From an American perspective this is an entirely predicable
GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the "npm install" command to tr
The decision comes as India emerges as the world’s largest GCC market.
The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.
If you doubted his genius, doubt no more.
a quiet day lets us reflect on a great essay
Coding agents as normal technology
North Korea's gross domestic product (GDP) has grown, in part because of the cybercrime gains of groups linked to the nation, which target business and financial firms.
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
For days after the stunning incident, the ADA had doubled-down on the choice.
The new directive gives federal agencies three days to fix the most dangerous flaws, while less severe issues can be deferred.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
The company says there’s little evidence it influenced any real policy discussion. The post OpenAI: ‘Likely’ Chinese influence operation tried to use ChatGPT to stir debate on data centers appeared first on CyberScoop .
Feedback is alarmed by a study that explored how funny people think they are, and discovered certain traits in those who rate themselves the most humorous
Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall
Researchers propose that tiny mineral nanoparticles may have been the hidden engines that transformed Earth’s early chemistry into the first building blocks of life. By acting as natural catalysts and energy processors, these “nanozymes” could help explain how
Bringing attestation, provenance, and tamper-evident execution history to workflows and AI agents For years, the cloud native ecosystem has focused on making distributed systems resilient. Applications recover from failures. Services retry requests. Workflows
From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether humanity will act in time—and in concert. The post How to Stop a Killer Asteroid appeared first on Nautilus .
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On 10–11 June, representatives from European Space Agency (ESA) Member States met in Tenerife to make far-reaching decisions about the future of ESA’s Science Programme. Their decisions to extend current missions and adopt the next ‘fast-class’ mission, Arraki
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Founded by two researchers from MIT, Ferveret reduces the amount of energy and water required to cool the chips that power AI.
The much anticipated launch of the Mythos-class model was marred by some controversial usage policies
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A new test for AI suggests some newer LLMs are less smart than older models The post Looking for Signs of Intelligence in Chatbots appeared first on Nautilus .
Media Lab study shows that, much like how GPS has weakened our navigation skills, AI can make us worse at detecting fake news.
This new five-step protocol could make surgery a lot less painful The post The Healing Power of Dreaming Under Anesthesia appeared first on Nautilus .
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Science Programme Committee has adopted the Arrakihs mission. Planned for launch by the end of 2030, Arrakihs will capture the faint light from nearby galaxy haloes. By seeing the unseen, Arrakihs will dig up cosmic history an
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
James Cook University senior leadership are ready to revolutionize the delivery of degree programs in remote communities, using AI to accelerate the integration of western and traditional knowledge systems. In their article published in The Australian Educatio
When a friend buys you a cup of coffee, it's likely that next time, you'll return the gesture. This type of reciprocal generosity has been well-documented in behavioral economics studies. However, anthropologists and other social scientists have know
We got tactical and stayed frosty for our preview of Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, guided by game director Chris Cross.
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Aikido now scans Docker Hardened Images (DHI) with built-in VEX support. Vulnerabilities that Docker has verified as non-exploitable drop out of the queue automatically, so developers spend their time on findings that actually matter. This post walks through w
On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to software teams when AI makes code generation seemingly free.
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TL;DR: Antigravity 2.0: A desktop app to orchestrate multiple autonomous agents working in parallel across independent projects. Antigravity CLI: A terminal interface designed for command-line workflows and headless execution. Antigravity IDE: An editor for de
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Claude Fable 5 , Anthropic’s latest frontier model, is now generally available on Google Cloud. This launch is the latest proof point of our ongoing commitment to bring the industry's latest models straight to our Agent Platform. Claude Fable 5 brings the best
The public sector has reached a critical inflection point. For years, organizations have explored what’s possible through isolated AI pilots and experimentation. Today, the question has shifted to “what creates impact?” where the focus is no longer on hypothet
