For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple securi
OpenAI introduces new spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, helping organizations manage costs and scale AI with confidence.
Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.
Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.
Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why . The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-c
The U.S. vice president has become the face of an unpopular deal.
The MOU is the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy wrote.
As the public suffers, a corrupt regime prepares for a bonanza.
The recently deceased Edgar Morin was the last reminder of a bygone phenomenon.
Abelardo de la Espriella promises megaprisons and more if he wins the presidency.
Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0 This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instanc
Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely. The post Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine
At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis. Details : The _index.js payload begins with a large JavaScript block comment containing fake system instructions an
Iran's supreme leader says he disagrees with the deal and Donald Trump signed it "out of desperation".
Crypto Clipper spreads over USB and communicates over Tor.
The Breville Barista Express and Ninja Luxe Cafe Pro are two of the best early Prime Day deals I’ve seen in 2026.
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. [...]
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.
Niger has been fighting a militant Islamist insurgency for a decade and in January suspected jihadists attacked the same airport.
Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.
The US defence secretary's move follows a US decision to scale back its commitments to a high readiness force within the alliance.
Valve has some good news and bad news about Steam Controllers. The good news: If you make a reservation for a Steam Controller, the company will now show you one of three estimates of when you'll be able to actually order your gamepad: by September 2026, by De
The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it's getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Ca
BBC analysts assess the claims by both Washington and Tehran to have won a victory with the deal to end their war.
Dads are traditionally tough to shop for—let me help with these handpicked gift ideas for fathers with great taste.
The vulnerability, disclosed 12 months ago, affects multiple manufacturers.
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.
The easiest way to save on a streaming service is often to pay for a year upfront, which HBO Max is currently making a lot cheaper. Through July 15, 2026, new and returning subscribers can get 28 percent off any of HBO Max's yearly plans, bringing the ad-suppo
Snap's new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we've seen. They're not VR-headset huge; they don't have a big charging puck; thanks to Snap's many years of AR lens development, they're likely to have a lot of features
Number of people infected now tops 1,000 though health officials say the global risk remains low Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola outbreak respo
Amazon’s earlier-than-usual Prime Day doesn’t begin until June 23rd, but there are several even earlier deals on must-have products that you can check out right now. To name some examples, Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 are selling at their cheapest-ever price at Amazo
The boy was 13 when he killed eight girls, a boy and a school guard at Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade in 2023.
Nintendo of America has confirmed to BleepingComputer that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised. [...]
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Updated document, which emphasises harm done to African women, is being considered by other Caribbean countries Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for repar
The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup is now well underway, bringing 48 countries' teams to compete in a soccer tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada. With teams from every continent except Antarctica, the 2026 tournament is a truly global even
Threat actors targeting cryptocurrency wallets have been distributing clipboard-stealing malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor network to conceal communication. [...]
‘Mastermind’ Dawie Groenewald given fine of 2m rand or four-year jail term almost 16 years after arrest Two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly bringing to an end
In 2024, Emilian Kavalski and Claris Diaz argued in "Beyond TikTok – The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones" that the national debate over foreign social media platforms risked becoming too narrow, potentially causing Washington to ov
Market intelligence platform Klue suffered a OAuth breach that enabled the "Icarus" threat actors to steal Salesforce CRM data from multiple organizations in an ongoing extortion campaign. [...]
Microsoft 365 helps keep services running, but protecting and recovering business data remains your responsibility. Acronis breaks down five gaps organizations should consider when evaluating Microsoft 365 data protection. [...]
Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.
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. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive par
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by rapidly establishing a large number of TCP connections to it, resulting in an inconsistency in
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by continuously sending a large number of communication packets to the Ethernet port of the produ
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive health-related information and prevent legitimate users from establishing a connection with the device. The following versions of Apollo Pharmacy Blo
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to upload malicious .ctl files that may lead to arbitrary code execution. The following versions of AzeoTech DAQFactory are affected: DAQFactory CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulne
CISA is aware of global reports that malicious cyber actors have targeted internet-accessible Fortinet devices across government and private sector organizations using compromised credentials. This activity, referred to as FortiBleed, involves the exposure of
Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting particles to bounce sunlight out of the atmosphere and cool the planet. But it might be less like a
Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot. Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detectors filled with liquid xenon aim to make the first direct de
A mentor of mine, a superb scholar, once told me that good defense analysis starts with a trade-off. The classic example is combined arms doctrine, which is the foundation of modern warfare. Infantry, armor, artillery, and aviation work together to offset each
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Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, June 12, 2026 Rather than going from stage to stage at a music festival to hear different bands playing different varieties of music, Curiosity has been
"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."
In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.
Cybersecurity firms, researchers and officials took down 106 servers and remediated nearly 15,000 sites that were infected with the malware. The post Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet appeared first on CyberScoop .
NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well
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Announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads.
Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events,
"We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.
While preventing third parties from profiting off unauthorized deepfakes of artists and performers is a bipartisan concern, some business and digital rights groups are opposed. The post Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes appeared f
NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers, civil agencies, and decision-makers. Su
A leaked GitHub token underscores what most organizations get wrong: Treating secrets management as a tooling problem rather than an identity problem.
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
The threat group's curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two.
Rohit Goeptar was born into a poor family in Suriname, South America, the kind where both parents work three jobs and they still can only provide food and shelter for their family. At around age six, his family moved to California to start a new life. Onl
Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like modern frogs or salamanders
An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east
Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a field test in March 2026. Called ERNEST
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.
We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!
A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years. Researchers found that the Cajon Pass, where the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults meet, could act as an “earthquake gate” that dete
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap. The post How pull request limits are cutting down the noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Netflix has detailed a cloud-based system for scaling camera file processing across global film and TV workflows. The pipeline handles ingest, validation, metadata extraction, and media transformation at scale using FilmLight API and distributed compute. It st
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel discuss the challenges of running traditional CDC across heterogeneous databases during peak order traffic. They explain how Debezium hit limits under high load and share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) - a custom arch
Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an essential read for anyone who considers themselves a critical thinker, says Leah Crane
Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from hunter-gatherer cemeteries in Siberia, researchers discovered early plague strai
As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought
How we decide is at the core of architecture, and the architecture advice process is a way to decentralize architectural decisions. It needs to be supported by Architecture Decision Records because of the speed at which technology and systems move, and can be
Ky 2.0 is an open-source JavaScript HTTP client built on the Fetch API, featuring significant updates such as consolidated hook handling, enhanced timeout management, and improved URL processing. The release includes response validation through schema validati
A new theory suggests the universe is constantly recording its own history in the fabric of spacetime. If correct, this cosmic memory could help solve some of the biggest puzzles in physics, from black holes to dark matter and the universe’s ultimate fate.
VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before auto-updating extensions to newly published versions, creating a revocation window against supply chain attacks. The delay does not apply to trusted publishers like Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. Similar cooldown mech
A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions.
A new study from Northern Arizona University is raising red flags about a widely used global emissions database from Climate TRACE, a consortium co-founded by Al Gore. Researchers found that the database may be dramatically undercounting carbon dioxide emissio
The only bootstrapped frontier lab announces its second product and second
Leaders, faculty across MIT discuss fostering innovation and talent in Greater Boston in special series of articles published alongside the outlet's annual list of 'Tech Power Players'
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The forum has been around for a long time and I occasionally find old gems, I wonder what great insights etc. I've missed from the past.
Radical AI's Joseph Krause on why the moat in materials is the lab, not the model
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Developers looking for LLM inference and model serving often turn to Ray Serve , a scalable model serving library with developer-friendly, Python-native APIs built by Anyscale. Combined with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), developers have a powerful, unified p
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In the high-stakes world of tech entrepreneurship, the leap from a brilliant prototype to a scalable, market-defining business can be brutal. Founders need much more than capital; they need deep architectural guidance, sovereign-level policy alignment, and tec
