A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on th
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.
See how Gilbert + Tobin combines CEO-led commitment, rigorous governance, and human accountability to scale ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across the firm.
Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just "disable" the use of Direct2D. So, instead, Paint.NET now has an internal, from-scratch, clean-room r
The emergence of pro-presidential thugs on the streets of Jakarta is a sign of the times.
Security matters have rocked the boat, but here’s how to steady it.
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day . Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research, boasting of a 52.6% s
Geopolitical conflict will only get worse with climate change.
The war in Ukraine may rage on, but Russia remains far from an international pariah.
There aren’t 65 billion barrels, they won’t be lowering gas prices, and they won’t refill the SPR.
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime , including a full Python
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council ) and found a need to display some GeoJSON files on a map and export that as a PNG. I
To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own. Starting last weekend, I
Latest item from Google DeepMind Blog.
They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior , and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams , co-creator of Dwarf Fortress Tags: ai , game-design
This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information
Reasons for rising yields differ somewhat from those in America, but are no less problematic
Companies go public in good times that may not last
Labor Day already? Say it ain’t so. You can still chase summer a while longer with these great deals on outdoor gear at the REI Labor Day Sale.
If you see a Prop 65 warning, don’t fret. Here’s what you need to know.
Changes include fewer seats in parliament and new rules on presidential candidates ahead of December elections Guinea-Bissau voters have approved a new constitution significantly expanding presidential powers ahead of elections due in December. According to pr
A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. [...]
Microsoft is getting ready to roll out its memory integrity security feature of Windows 11 to more devices next month. The kernel-level protection feature is designed to stop malicious code or drivers running on a Windows 11 machine, but Microsoft previously w
Another 28 people are injured in the accident in the South Sinai governorate, officials say.
As the war in Ukraine progressed, Russian strikes increasingly degraded Ukraine's terrestrial communications infrastructure, steadily deepening Kyiv's dependence on SpaceX's Starlink. The satellite constellation became indispensable for crucial military functi
International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. [...]
The sweeping reforms come in the wake of last year's coup and ahead of a proposed return to civilian rule.
In August 2024, special forces from five Ukrainian military intelligence units crossed the Black Sea to raid Russian-held Kinburn Spit. The commandos of these units — Chimera, Aratta, Stuhna, Paragon, Terror, and the Siberian Battalion — landed, fo
The BBC's Jonathan Head looks at the historical echoes of US troops arriving in Pattaya, a beach resort famous for its racy bars.
The summer of 2026 has raised questions once again among politicians, diplomats, and academics about whether Germany might be about to dither on Russia. Last month, a drone attack on German soil seemed designed to coerce Germany back into business as usual. Ea
Dell's new Dell 14S laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo: it comes in four colors, is aimed at students, and it starts with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Announced at IFA 2026, the 14S is meant to sit below the recently launched XPS 13 and offer another a
SonicWall warned customers that threat actors are chaining two new SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities in remote code execution attacks. [...]
iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company's first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the contract manufacturer that purch
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. [...]
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Aesto LLC, operating as Aesto Health, disclosed that a data breach discovered recently affects more than 9.5 million individuals. [...]
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 year
Built on our latest Nano Banana model, Google Pics — our image creation and editing tool — is now available.
For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead
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. How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for an attacker to escalate and execute processes with administrator privileges. The following versions of Rockwell Automation Redundancy Module Configuration Tool are affected: Red
View CSAF Summary The following versions of Rockwell Automation Logix Platform are affected: ControlLogix 5580 CompactLogix 5380 GuardLogix 5580 Compact GuardLogix 5380 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Logix
View CSAF Summary The following versions of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix, CompactLogix, CompactLogix 5480, GuardLogix, Compact GuardLogix are affected: ControlLogix 5580 GuardLogix 5580 CompactLogix 5380 Compact GuardLogix 5380 CompactLogix 5480 CVSS Vendo
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the device being accessed; an out-of-bounds write condition may allow remote code execution. The following versions of Rockwell Automation Historian ME are affected: Series B 5.202
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the affected product. The following versions of Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic are affected: RSLinx Classic CVSS Vendor Equ
Supercell's acquisition of Metacore is progressing, with both companies having signed an agreement expected to close at the end of this month . Read more
The extended look of Grand Theft Auto 6 was the most-viewed title on Netflix last week, reaching 31.1 million views in four days. Read more
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IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak will host a 007 First Light session at Game Republic New Horizons. Read more
'As Savvy embarks on its next period of transformational growth, this is the right time for new leadership for that evolution.'
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The team reportedly worked 60 to 80 hour weeks to get the project out the door.
The studio wants to support 'intense, stylized games with an attitude' - but isn't interested in 'generative AI slop.'
The games industry is undergoing a reset. That was the message of Gamescom Dev's opening keynote, delivered by Amir Satvat, who until a few days ago was business development manager at Tencent, but is now general partner at 1Up Ventures . Read more
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The closure follows the cancellation of Sonic Blitz and the exact number of redundancies are yet to be confirmed.
Brian Ward is stepping down as CEO of Savvy Games Group, according to a staff note obtained by Bloomberg . Read more
Game director Dan Lind explains the appeal of strategy in grand strategy games, and how to invite new players into a sprawling game.
The ongoing advancement and adoption of artificial intelligence continues to raise concerns about widespread job losses. Over the past three years, our regional business surveys have asked firms about their AI adoption and its effects on their workforces. This
Last week, as Gamescom 2026 first began to open up to media and business visitors, I double-timed it to CD Projekt Red's booth. I had been promised the very first slot to see a blowout on Songs of the Past , an expansion coming 11 years after the launch of the
Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exists els
No Rest for the Wicked - the upcoming Action RPG from Ori developer Moon Studios - has been delayed into next year. Originally intended to release into version 1.0 in October, it will instead launch in March of 2027. Read more
Following nearly 10,000 older women for 10 years, researchers found that tea drinking was associated with slightly higher hip bone density. Moderate coffee consumption did not appear harmful, but drinking more than five cups a day was linked to lower bone dens
NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky Way and the violent superflares of its youth. Those events may help explain ancient ice ages as well as how early Earth stayed warm eno
A UN report says it’s possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, but many researchers regard this scenario as highly unlikely
From the EIA: The last plotted Brent price (August 25) is below $90. November NYMEX futures is over $95 as of 7pm CT:
The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors." Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation executive who joined Pivotal's board of directors in November 2025.
Today: The pressure is impacting long-dated bonds around the world, due to the same concerns about the oil-driven inflation shock and government spending. Germany’s 30-year yields touched the highest since 2011, and the equivalent UK rate rose to a level last
333 miles of real-world range with uncompromised comfort and off-road ability.
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.
NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for current and future Mars missions.
Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of signs of AI writing . That page points ou
Brilliant Venus and a Harvest Moon Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot, spot brilliant Venus, welcome the equinox, and see the Harvest Moon near Saturn and Neptune. Skywatching Highlights Transcript The Moon joins a tea party… Venus cranks up the brigh
"Black hole stars," making cookies from plastic, tiny sound-powered drones, and more.
OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, a major update to the open-source personal AI agent that changes its installation process, browser interface, memory, skills, automations, plugins, security, and collaboration features. By Daniel Dominguez
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. The cost of large reads The A
On Aug. 24, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began installing the four RS‑25 engines in the core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will carry the Artemis III crew into low Earth orbit in 2027. Each RS‑25 engine ha
On the run, at noon CT: Figure 1: Ten year constant maturity Treasury (blue), on the run at noon CT (red dot), both in %.
Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the maths on whether anything is actually real
Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. What can the rest of the world learn from its efforts?
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that may have just changed
The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the record-breaking heat was made 130 times more likely by human-caused climate change
A preview of the September cohorts of the InfoQ Online Certification Programs, and the facilitators leading them: Luca Mezzalira, Michelle Brush, Zichuan Xiong, and Premanand Chandrasekaran. By Artenisa Chatziou
Mindfulness, gratitude, and optimism training may improve blood pressure, inflammation, and other heart-health measures within just eight to 12 weeks. The strongest programs paired daily practice with regular reinforcement, suggesting that improving psychologi
Yao Yue discusses the fundamental limitations of standard line charts for system observability. Drawing from 15 years of operating large-scale systems, she shares how engineering leaders and software architects can transform telemetry data - moving beyond simp
HashiCorp is positioning HCP Terraform as the governance and control plane for a new generation of AI-driven infrastructure, arguing that the rapid adoption of coding agents is shifting the biggest infrastructure challenge from writing configuration to verifyi
Ryanair on Wednesday reduced its winter capacity to mitigate its exposure to unhedged jet fuel prices of $140 per barrel, illustrating the real-economy impact of the energy crisis.
“Roth assets would provide our children with tax-free distributions.”
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup all raised their price targets for the technology company.
Seyfried, who now resides primarily on a beautiful farm property in upstate New York, has used the three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom home as her West Coast base for more than a decade.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have trimmed the asking price of their stunning California mansion by $700,000—just three months after listing the dwelling.
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