Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement released today, the Austral
A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.
OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.
OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.
ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators and staff.
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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Trump’s longtime mentor is the true father of the president’s second-term abuses, a new book posits.
Does Sergio Gor speak for himself or the White House? And how would we know?
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
An accounting of how the White House has run down key munitions in the Iran war.
The Middle East’s newest rivals in the Levant region are Washington’s two key allies there.
Today’s political debate rests on a faulty assumption.
OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of scams, often blending elements from different schemes. For instance, operators used dating personas to
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data colle
A smaller workforce and slower growth
And makes trouble for the Fed
Its belt-tightening is good micro, but bad macro
The scheme has helped to stabilise the rupee
They should be scrapped
The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that
PaperCut is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software in zero-day attacks. [...]
Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. The new Speedo iQ system uses swim-specific sensors to analyze he
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone a
The Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed that hackers breached its systems and stole customer data, including Wi-Fi sign-ups from Manchester, Stansted, and East Midlands airports. [...]
The 89-year-old's condition is described as "extremely serious" and members of his family have visited him in hospital.
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn't a
Police have arrested a man after an incident in which two people were killed including an 18-year-old.
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
The latest special-edition of Google's Fitbit Air is inspired by the Pokémon Sleep game, with a "Sleepy Blue" band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It's not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a Pokémon card pretty close
Nickolay Mladenov warns that a collapse of last October's ceasefire would be "a point of no return" for the region.
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
Threat research gives security teams insight into how attackers operate, while MDR turns that intelligence into faster detection and response. ESET explains how combining threat intelligence, continuous monitoring, and human expertise can help SMBs strengthen
Google is introducing new network security protections in Android 17 to strengthen connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and protect the privacy of users' home networks. [...]
Australian authorities have arrested and charged two young men accused of being part of the TeamPCP hacking group linked to a string of far-reaching developer supply chain attacks. [...]
Alienware’s latest gaming monitor explores a new size and resolution for ultrawide monitors, and I have a feeling PC gamers are going to love it.
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age.
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 inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Fa
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands or code remotely on affected systems. The following versions of All-Line Equipment Company Fuel-Boss are affected: Fuel-Boss V1 Standard >=|
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to read or write arbitrary local files, cause the application to issue outbound network requests, or intercept the connection to impersonate the trusted peer, complete t
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, a timeout error, or a communication delay by sending a specially crafted UDP packet to the product. The following versio
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could reduce the computational cost required for an attacker to perform offline brute-force attacks against stored password hashes. The following versions of Rockwell Automation OTTO Fleet Manager
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to fully compromise the device. The following versions of Ebyte NA111-M are affected: NA111-M Firmware 9013-2-17 (CVE-2026-73125, CVE-2026-76179, CVE-2026-75814, CVE-202
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The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.
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EVs account for under 10% of total new-vehicle sales in the US, and the numbers are declining. From a climate perspective, that’s pretty dismal, especially because the transportation sector is the single biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions in the countr
Lawyers claim Eman el-Shazly, from Birmingham, was detained in effort to silence her sister, a critic of Sisi regime The UK Foreign Office has been asked to intervene to secure the release of a British-Egyptian woman who it is claimed has been arrested in Cair
"Unthreatening and respectful." That is how the president of the United States described North Korea on Aug. 16, 2026, in his social media post ordering his secretary of defense to scale back joint exercises with South Korea. Two years earlier in Seoul, the U.
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions
We examine whether occupational licensing improves service quality and safety using trip-level Uber data that include driver ratings and telematics-based measures of driving behavior. Exploiting quasi-random assignment from proximity-based dispatch, we compare
We design a method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the deep past. The method combines a structural model of crop choice as a portfolio allocation with machine-learning prediction of expected crop returns, using historic agronomic and climate da
In instrumental-variable (IV) studies, researchers often evaluate multiple candidate instruments and selectively report the specification with the most favorable first- or second-stage statistics. We show that this form of instrument selection (“instrument-hac
How do firms set wages? How should governments set income taxes? If labor supply is inelastic to wages, firms can pay workers less than their marginal products, and governments can increase taxes without eroding the base. However, the structure of labor supply
We examine how contractions in local labor demand during the Great Recession affected children's academic achievement. We combine county-level test scores for grades 3–8 from the Stanford Education Data Archive with a shift-share design that interacts counties
Saber chief creative officer Tim Willits said studios need to find 'reliable' income to support their big swings.
Xbox isn't healthy, she said again.
MBC Game Studio broke cover at Gamescom 2026 and has already hired veterans from BioWare, Hi-Rez, Ubisoft Montreal, and Bungie.
The European games industry generated €30 billion in 2025, with digital purchases accounting for 91% of total revenue, according to Video Games Europe (VGE). Read more
Without the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 this year, console revenue would be flat compared to 2025. Read more
The CEO of Helldivers 2 maker Arrowhead Game Studios, Shams Jorjani, has said that the games industry is in a "transitional phase at the moment". Read more
Roblox has announced plans to open a headquarters in Riyadh to support its creator program in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Read more
Services provider Side has signed a memorandum of understanding with Danish AI firm Modl.ai. Read more
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The charismatic star of stage and screen also lent his likeness to a number of celebrated video games.
The Grand Theft Auto 6 maker has responded to the game's massive leaks.
This would've been really cool eight months ago.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The G
The population of baleen whales along eastern Greenland has boomed in recent decades, and reporter Leah Crane recounts a profound experience of seeing them
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
After a 10-week hiatus since the last batch of Spring ecosystem releases, there was a flurry of activity during the week of August 17th, 2026, highlighting first milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Integra
Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.
Microsoft saw Sony's open goal and took the shot.
After nearly a decade of service to NASA, including an eight-month science expedition aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Jonny Kim’s last day at the agency is Thursday. He will continue serving as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. Kim launc
Google Cloud has introduced AI-powered Database Operations Agents, featuring an Onboarding Agent that streamlines database setup and an Observability Agent that helps automate troubleshooting, performance optimization, and tuning. Integrated with Gemini Cloud
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
Atlantic blue crabs have moved into the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, where they are a problem both for ecosystems and local economies, but octopuses might offer a solution
Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand. Pramod Sad
Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the system identified six successful configurations, including one that worked at a record-low 500 watts. Th
The takeaway More workers are using generative AI tools, using them more often, and saving more time because of them, according to new survey data in FRED. The survey Economists Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, and David Deming built the Generative … Contin
Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surprisingly massive hidden star could help explain Betelgeuse’s changing brightness and may influence its
Sätteri is a high-performance Markdown and MDX processor developed by the Astro team. Built in Rust, it enhances build speeds by up to 61% for Astro 7.0. Sätteri supports flexible JavaScript plugins and integrates various Markdown features natively. It maintai
Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to have eaten insects only occasionally, while Neanderthals may have consumed them much more regularly. Populations near the tropics also
Physical activity causes a type of brain cell called astrocytes to contract, which then leads to the formation of new neurons, according to a study in mice
An analysis of data collected from hundreds of thousands of cars in Australia offers an insight into driving behaviour that can be used to identify sections of road where crashes may occur in the future
By using a sustainable testing strategy, you can skip unnecessary tests, ensure failing fast and early, and only run tests affected by code changes. Tracking energy use per test and using static code analysis can help spot inefficiencies and guide optimization
A challenging mathematical effort undertaken by a team of undergraduates has put bounds on a promising set of ways to break and upgrade the standard model of particle physics
Chad Schuster discusses bridging Python's developer velocity with C-like performance using Numba JIT and GPUs. Drawing from large-scale actuarial modeling, he explains LLVM pipeline architecture, performance gains up to 750x, and essential trade-offs like OOP
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Today, we introduced Cloud Run instances, which let you do just that. Consider AI agents such as OpenClaw or Hermes , which are intended for individual developers or
When Pythian rolled out Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise across our 500-person company in 27 countries, the goal was simple: use our own company as a proving ground to discover how enterprise AI actually delivers ROI. What we found changed our strategy entirel
