The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 perc
OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.
A new organization includes five Southeast Asian members.
The president’s allegations about election interference are the latest case in point.
Sonam Wangchuk’s fast in solidarity with Cockroach movement protests joins a long tradition.
Depleted reserves and changed circumstances make price spikes more likely this time around.
Trump’s latest protectionist measures will likely exacerbate trade tensions and reignite legal battles.
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's
Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic
It's a lot : According to information obtained by The Tech , MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive. Installation of the new cameras, along with th
Logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight on Tuesday.
In March 2025, China's military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of Taipei. Distributed in restricted military channels, this approach argues Beijing can achieve victory "by blocking the city's ability to re
American fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A is notifying customers of a data breach after their accounts were hacked in a wave of recent credential stuffing attacks. [...]
Oleksandr Syrskyi is dismissed after backlash over the removal of popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
Wilson was accused of defaming young Australian actress Charlotte MacInnes, but cleared by a Sydney court.
OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment. [...]
Why transactionalism won’t deliver peace in the Middle East.
Preparing for an AI cyber crisis.
The law will require social media platforms in France to verify all users age from January.
Officials say the restaurant in South Korea used some 49,000 ants in various dishes over four years.
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
This live blog is now closed. Sign up for US Breaking News email US gas prices have continued to rise since the conflict with Iran resumed this month. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), a gallon of fuel is now just over $4 – almost a
Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event is just around the corner, and the company is expected to take the wraps off a bunch of new devices. Based on the rumors and leaks we've seen so far, Samsung's next generation of foldables will likely be the stars of the sh
The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goods A planned joint US-Canada ceremony Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge conn
Authorities in Germany and the U.S. dismantled the central infrastructure of Kratos, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform with global reach, and its developer was arrested in Indonesia. [...]
It’s “the most car-like Range Rover ever created,” but will this all-electric grand tourer spoil Jaguar’s Type 01 party?
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
UK resident was evacuated from Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an outbreak of the disease A humanitarian worker is being monitored at a specialist hospital in London after potential exposure to the Ebola virus. The UK resident was medically eva
A large-scale operation dubbed 'FakeGit' is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. [...]
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production compa
OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed
The discounts may not beat Prime Day, but I found worthwhile prices on WIRED-approved TVs, laptops, tablets, speakers, and other home gear.
Hackers are actively exploiting the critical CVE-2026-50522 vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to steal machine keys and maintain access even after affected servers are patched. [...]
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI ass
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.
I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem is, strapping a fin
Not everything our honeypots detect is an attack. Sometimes it is just "odd traffic", and this is one example: Our "First Seen" list currently includes "http://detectportal.firefox.co
More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.
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. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker accessing sensitive credentials, disrupting connected infrastructure, or manipulating physical equipment, which could present a physical safety risk. The following v
View CSAF Summary Palo Alto Networks has published [1] information on vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by these vulnerabilities. Customers are advised to consult and implement the workarounds provi
View CSAF Summary Multiple Siemens products are affected by unquoted search path vulnerability in IAM Client. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to perform privilege escalation. Siemens has released new versions for several affected products and
CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-27137 DD-WRT Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-0770 Langflow Inclusion of Functionality from Untr
View CSAF Summary SIDIS Secured SmartPlug before V7.26.0310 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the components OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and several other packages as described below. Siemens has released a new version of SIDIS Secured SmartPlug and recommends
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advance
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say developed and ran it. In a jo
A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied brain activity also reported more personal i
Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia, revealing the ancient origins of rituals practised by the GunaiKurnai people
Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northea
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
The Range Rover GT will debut as an EV with a hybrid version to follow.
Ronald Fischer, aka Richard Graydon, was arrested in New York last week.
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30. NASA will stream
"Maybe that's my responsibility, to live alone with the truth."
Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.
The latest release of Android Studio, Quail 2, now stable, expands Gemini/AI Agent Mode inside the IDE by enabling multiple AI conversations in parallel and further advancing Google's push to integrate AI-powered workflows directly into Android Studio. It also
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and India will release files processed from the satellite’s L-band and S-band radars o
NASA Langley’s “Stars, Stripes, and Supernovas – Symphony Under the Stars” event brought employees, families, and community members together for an evening filled with music, connection, and celebration. Organizers planned the event, whic
On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren’t inventions or devices, it turns out, but the people making them
Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks. The post How to build interactive experiences with canvases appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Rspack, developed by ByteDance, has released version 2.0, featuring enhanced performance, reduced dependencies, and a focus on modern ECMAScript modules. Key updates include a pure ESM core, improved static analysis, and support for RSC. Performance benchmarks
"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
Earth contains more than enough heat to power humanity many times over, but so far only a few lucky places have been able to exploit it. Now we may have a way to tap this vast clean energy source almost anywhere
For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved. Fresh attempts to settle the debate are struggling to make headway
The Loki actor is the unlikely host for a three-episode docu-series about the Roman city. It's occasionally a little silly, but it's also entertaining and informative, says Josh Bell
With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat . But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available . They have five headline findings: Code generation is no longer the
GitLab has introduced a new approach to Green DevOps, demonstrating how software engineering teams can measure the carbon emissions generated by their CI/CD pipelines. By Craig Risi
Astronomers have found the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone. The planet, LHS 1140 b, revealed its atmosphere through helium slowly leaking into space. Located 48 light-years away, the world may have preserved it
Bhavuk Jain discusses translating foundational AI into scalable mobile products. He shares the engineering challenges behind AI Wallpapers and Circle to Search, detailing how to implement robust runtime guardrails, fine-tuning, and seamless OS integration. For
Yelp has launched Training Orchestrator. This new internal framework replaces individual team Spark training scripts. Now, it uses a configuration-driven, DAG-based execution model. By Claudio Masolo
Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.
Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended from local Yellow River farming communities, but also had gene
A newly discovered turning point in the Sun’s 11-year cycle could allow scientists to predict future solar activity years earlier than before. At this “switch-off” point, the most violent space weather abruptly ends, and the remaining number of sunspots offers
Scientists studying decades of pygmy sperm whale strandings have uncovered three previously unknown types of Helicobacter bacteria hiding in the animals’ stomachs. All four infected whales showed serious digestive damage, including inflammation, ulcers, scarri
We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs, the time to go from a blank IDE to a functional local application has dropped from quarters to hours. You can build your wildest ideas over a cup of coffee.
Increasingly scientists are testing chatbots rather than humans in experiments The post Why Are We Using Machines to Study Our Inner Lives? appeared first on Nautilus .
AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology, offering massive scalability, high availability, and native
As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them with machine-speed defenses that can automate code remediation and fight AI with AI. CodeMender is our managed code security agent, and starting today, we're bringing its co
In Google Cloud, Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you maintain access control over your cloud resources and operations. While it includes other features, this is its primary purpose. If you ever tried to harden security over your application, you kno
Platform engineering is evolving Platform engineering has become one of the defining disciplines of the cloud native era. As organizations embraced Kubernetes, microservices, GitOps, and distributed architectures, the complexity of building and operating softw
What 1,192 agent conversations taught us about knowledge base search A few months ago we shipped an agent inside our own product. It lives in our web app and lets users ask questions about their deployment,...
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
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Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify
How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes
