Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.
OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
Moscow will soon have to redirect a growing share of its exports to Asia.
A Bangkok visit by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing reinforced the two countries’ ties.
Tehran’s proxy risks pushing a newly consolidated Saudi Arabia into an all-out ground war.
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose to have LLMs help massa
What’s behind the defense pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We ta
The technology is far less divisive than in the United States.
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that instance. It can also be used to atomica
When I give talks about AI genies , I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It's happened . The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And…. Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered
Interesting empirical research: " Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI ." Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study provides a unique empirical window into that question by deploy
Jack Bogle’s creation has transformed markets, and involves plenty of choices
The vessel is said to have overturned after being hit by strong waves.
The Portuguese superstar has posted an image of two hands - presumed to be his on top of his wife's - both wearing wedding rings.
The perverse incentives for presidents to use military force.
Why high productivity could still lead to a crash.
Journalists and White House staff who were on board the jet were unaware the president had left.
The boy from the most-watched YouTube video of all time is now 17 years old, and wants to be a K-pop star.
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
Google says Chrome's anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. [...]
After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella
It marks another striking episode in the turbulent history of his relationship with Iran, writes the BBC's Anthony Zurcher.
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
Did a prototype Microsoft gamepad fall off the back of a truck? We can't say, but a Redditor has legit-looking photos of a prototype Xbox controller that's almost certainly the Xbox Elite Series 3. Incredibly, they claim they bought the pad for $200 on OfferUp
The DeadLock ransomware operation is using a decentralized infrastructure that relies on blockchain-backed services to protect its communication with victims and data-leak activity. [...]
It looks like we'll be getting a successor to the Sonos Ace headphones sometime this fall, which was hinted at by CEO Tom Conrad during a third quarter earnings call. As reported by What Hi-Fi?, an FCC filing by Sonos, Inc reveals details about upcoming wirele
Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. [...]
Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
Cisco is warning that a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Secure Firewall ASA and Threat Defense (FTD) software is being actively exploited in attacks to remotely crash affected devices. [...]
For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn'
Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active use
Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. [...]
I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and Ch
This month we got patches for 418 vulnerabilities. Of these, 62 are critical, 1 is being exploited in the wild, and 2 were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Notable fixes include Windows privilege escalation, container tampering, and critical QUIC and DNS Serve
Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.
Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-based tools for chest X-ray interpretation. The post Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful R
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.
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. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine years after Google researchers introduced the transformer, this
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use hidden commands to disable electrical safety mechanisms or modify other stimulation output settings. The following versions of Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator are af
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with network access to achieve remote code execution. The following versions of Johnson Controls C-CURE 9000 and Victor application server (Update A) are affected: C-CUR
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
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Crossfire was revealed in June of this year with Smilegate and Tencent subsidiary Team K1 acting as publishers.
'If no one protects indie developers or calls out bad behavior... who is going to save the indies?'
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The news comes after Ubisoft moved to lay off of 51 employees at its Barcelona office.
Total debt balances declined slightly by $13 billion in the second quarter of 2026, according to the latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit from the New York Fed’s Center for Microeconomic Data . Mortgage and student loan balances saw a small dec
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Remedy is placing its bets on Control Resonant being priced at $60 and garnering positive preview coverage over concerns of self-publishing risks.
Gamescom Dev has released its annual speaker survey results, revealing that 83% of respondents expect AI to impact team structure or productivity. Read more
The UK studio plans to eliminate up to 75 roles.
Supermassive Games has announced a third round of layoffs in three years, potentially impacting up to 75 positions. Read more
Reforj developer 4J Studios has debuted a technology called Rixels that offer an alternative way to provide textures using a fraction of the memory requirements. The Dundee-based studio has applied to patent the technology. Read more
Remedy reported revenue declines in the first half and second quarter of 2026 while increasing marketing efforts for Control Resonant. Read more
GamesAid has appointed six new trustees to its board and raised £82,000 for four charities in 2025/26. Read more
Yulu aims to have a fleet of 200,000 bikes in the next two years and faster electric two-wheelers, aiming at new logistics use cases.
Western Iceland and northern Spain are among the few Northern Hemisphere locations experiencing a total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.
Yen brings more than 40 years of martial arts experience to the game.
It's not just a joke: it's a pretty good puzzle game.
It took just hours for the leading pharma group to reject the recommendations.
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
This follows many drone incursions into Romania and a failed attack in Germany.
This article is for students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory. The telescope will scan large sections of space. Roman will help astronomers answer questions about dark energy, dark matter, exoplan
Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.
Judges tell Meta that Section 230 provides a defense, not immunity from lawsuits.
The divestiture comes as the two once-tight companies have started to diverge on the business side.
NASA has declared “wrenches down” on the first completed payload designed for Artemis astronauts to deploy on the Moon’s surface. Engineers working on NASA’s Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS, have completed hardware development and testing and the
Developers are owning more of the delivery system around code, not just code itself. Join us during GitHub Universe to meet other devs, learn something new, and explore what's next. The post From coder to orchestrator: How agents shift the role of a developer
YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives you a lot of choices, and not all of the
Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. The nebula's "mane" is clear and detailed in this image released on Aug. 10, 2026, due to Webb's high-resolution imagi
Bacteria-killing phage viruses souped up with DNA-destroying CRISPR appear to have helped clear up a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant E. coli
Having surgery for a heart condition is thought to have triggered an immune response that put the patient into remission for his severe skin cancer, but also caused him to develop a serious allergy to bee stings
Two research teams have independently created devices within which sound waves could be separated by frequency, creating the most complete sound rainbows yet
Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradu
Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence, propa
IBM and Red Hat have announced an expansion of Lightwell, introducing new commercial offerings designed to help organizations establish trusted, verifiable software supply chains for the age of AI-assisted software development. By Craig Risi
My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so conducted a fe
Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins stood up to 190 centimetres tall
A total solar eclipse is set to be visible across parts of Europe, while a partial eclipse will sweep across about a quarter of the planet – here’s how to catch it
Meryem Arik discusses strategies for designing low-cost LLM inference architectures for high-volume, non-real-time workloads. She explains how software architects and engineering leaders can achieve order-of-magnitude cost reductions by making critical trade-o
JetBrains has described how it began centralising AI usage after development-related spending increased roughly tenfold in six months. Rather than restricting engineers to a small set of approved tools, the company built a shared access and accounting layer in
In this paper, we characterize trends in the earnings assimilation of immigrant workers from 1981 to 2021. We use administrative longitudinal data that contain the earnings of workers beginning in their first year of residence in the United States and in each
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The AI cloud provider topped revenue and earnings expectations, with its CEO cheering “an important inflection point.”
The company impressed Wall Street several weeks ago by teasing an improved profitability trajectory. Super Micro’s latest forecast has exceeded expectations as well.
Though Lumentum posted blowout earnings and an upbeat forecast, its stock was largely flat after hours.
“I want to make the process as straightforward as possible for my beneficiaries to access the funds.”
Does a human-made problem need a natural solution? The post How Our Attraction to Natural Fixes Can Stymie Climate Progress appeared first on Nautilus .
“Some readers — and couples — would be grateful to retire on half that amount.”
Fluorescent visions of the guts of living sacred plants from all over the Americas The post “We Wanted to Create An Experience of Microscopic Awe”: A Radical New View of Sacred Plants appeared first on Nautilus .
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Here is one (partial) estimate of the higher cyber costs. I am not sure how many incidents they have in mind, but this seems to me realistic as an estimate but also rather modest relative to the Angst I am seeing? Not quite "a Gilda Radner thing," but if nothi
“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.
1. "The fraction of women who undergo this procedure who go on to bear a child with the frozen eggs is around 2%." 2. Long Mark Zuckerberg/Meta piece on the future of AI. 3. "According to Bloomberg Intelligence, companies in the S&P 500 are expected to pos
NME: Harry Potter fans have succeeded in moving a construction project that would have originally gone through the “grave” of the character Dobby. The 125-mile Greenlink power connector, which costs £430million, is intended to link power between the UK’s Natio
No wonder workers have so little bargaining power. The boss class has gotten better at making them disposable.
OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.
