OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.
Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.
GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks One-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable
The case for the White House’s Security Council resolution on Sudan, made by two senior administration officials.
Like the Iran war itself, the carrier’s deployment lasted far longer than Trump expected or planned.
The curious case of a job posting and how global firms are tentatively exploring Trump's call to pursue mining opportunities.
GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself,
European nations join Berlin in punishing Moscow for an alleged unsuccessful attack on Leipzig airport.
Latest item from Google DeepMind Blog.
Beijing has plenty of leverage to deter Washington.
In this special live recording from the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, July 2026, the central question discussed was what do mathematicians really value about doing mathematics in the first place? The post Live from ICM 2026: What Is
Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field. The post In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams .
Ugreen, known for its phone power banks, chargers, and NAS storage solutions, is moving into the smart home - in a big way. This week at the IFA tech show, the company launched its HomeAgent smart home platform that combines security camera storage, on-device
President cites Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might reconsider US support for British sovereignty, and threatens swifter sanctions on British oil interests President Javier Milei has said “winds of change favourable” to Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Is
The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t full understand.
A San Francisco “Hot List” is trying to buck stereotypes about dating in tech circles amid wider debates about the value of being perceived as attractive.
Investors are unconvinced by Claudia Sheinbaum’s policies
But its new policies could hurt construction and employment
The unintended consequences of curbs on options trading
On Aug. 25, at the People's Palace in Damascus, Mazloum Abdi announced the dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces, which he had commanded for a decade. Speaking first in Arabic and then in Kurdish, he said the force had joined the Syrian army and would no
The group - which includes Audi, Porsche, Skoda as well as the VW brand - plans to cut a total of 100,000 posts by 2030.
RugOne's Xsnap 7 Pro comes with both an IP68 and IP69K rating, meaning the rugged phone can survive intense water blasts and complete submersion for up to 30 minutes. But what really sets the Xsnap 7 Pro apart from everything else on the market is that one of
After showing off several smart home firsts at CES, Aqara has returned to IFA with a major lineup of smart lighting compatible with both Zigbee and Thread. One of these new devices is the Floor Lamp T1, which trades the look of a typical lamp for an LED-equipp
Following the lead of companies like Xteink, Lexar is the latest to sacrifice a USB-C port in the pursuit of slimming down its hardware. When the Lexar Muse Ultra-Slim Portable SSD launches later this year in 512GB and 1TB capacities it will be one of the slim
Javier Milei reiterates his country's claim on the British overseas territory, saying the "winds of change" favour it.
The Australian icon was killed in 2006, after a stingray's barb pierced his chest during filming.
A nimbler navy can deny China.
BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri is in Nepal where authorities are trying to begin rebuilding amid the debris.
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
Officially, Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 AI rendering was supposed to launch this evening with only a single game, only on Nvidia's latest RTX 50 GPUs, and with developers in full control of their artistic vision. But unofficially, modders have already ported
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]
Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. [...]
Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution. [...]
Microsoft says a known issue that reverts mouse settings after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update affects only non-English Windows 11 systems. [...]
ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting errors across nearly every major ChatGPT feature. [...]
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents. In response, th
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack, cause a factory reset, wipe credentials, or retrieve sensitive information. The following versions of Tycon Systems TPD
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a high-privilege terminal during installation and run arbitrary commands. The following versions of OPCFoundation OPC UA LocalDiscoveryServer (LDS) are a
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow any authenticated user to create projects. The following versions of Inductive Automation Ignition are affected: Ignition CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 Inductive Automat
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 Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the module. The device requires a restart to recover. The following versions of Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module are affected: 1756-ENBT module vers:all/* (CVE-2025-10478) CVSS Ven
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S console sales increased in the UK following last week's Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal on Netflix . Read more
If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for their crops are especially aware of just how far the ripple effects of the conflict
Xbox will introduce monthly cloud gaming limits for Game Pass subscribers beginning in November 2026. Read more
Game Pass subscribers will no longer have unlimited access to Xbox's Cloud Gaming service.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Now that Gamescom is firmly behind us, the GamesIndustry.biz team is busy judging the entries for this year's Best Places To Work Awards. Entries have closed for our headline awards, which are judged based on anonymous employee feedback - but we have extended
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Once the deal is closed, Merge Mansion will officially become part of Supercell's live games portfolio.
Apple is facing a £2 billion class action lawsuit over the implementation of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework. Read more
The organization is offering up to €80,000 to developers based or operating in the region.
Often when a studio is dropped by a major publisher, it leaves them in dire straits. The story is all too common and often ends in layoffs or outright closure. Read more
After two days of heady discussions with academics and policymakers from around the world in high-altitude Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I’m now decompressing back at Street Level . The main theme of this year’s Kansas City Fed symposium was financial innovation in t
'What you can definitely expect from us is to put out a box that's going to make it worth your while.'
Xbox has announced hard monthly time limits will be added to its cloud gaming streaming service this November. Don't worry though, if you run into these limits, you can always buy more hours on the Xbox store. Read more
Come on guys, fling a few mil my way?
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size
The third and final entry in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series will launch on just one disc - unlike both Remake and Rebirth, which were spread across two - but the downside is that Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will need to download extra game data on all format
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A missing file type validation vulnerabi
Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point. The post ‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Zack Bartel has developed Tether, an open-source project designed to integrate Apple Continuity features with Linux workstations. Tether allows users to send iMessages, sync clipboards, and view iOS notifications directly on Linux. It uses secure local network
new SOTA computer use and coding, 2.5x pricier per token, but WAY cheaper per task, less monitorable. overall, a very successful launch of OpenAI's new frontier model class.
jQuery, created by John Resig and released in 2006, is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax. It enabled easier web development by providing an accessible API across browsers. While its use has declined wit
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
Down, under Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0: Figure 1: Wisconsin goods exports, mn.2010M12$ (blue). Deflated using US export price index ex food & fuels. Source: Census, BLS and author's calculations.
The ring maker says that its business has shown significant revenue growth over the past year.
A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while waiting for a suitable human donor's kidney to become available
The company published a form on its website Thursday soliciting info from people who are interested in "Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing."
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
Shopify's engineering introduced gisting, a novel technique for compressing long LLM prompts into a smaller set of learned "gist" tokens, improving throughput and reducing inference cost. By Sergio De Simone
Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."
Kubernetes 1.37 is here and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) keeps pushing past where it started! This release brings DRA Extended Resource support to GA, a milestone the team has been building toward for three straight releases. Several more features graduat
Many people who have chemotherapy develop numbness, tingling and pain in their hands and feet, which can disrupt their treatment. But research suggests that psilocybin, the psychedelic in magic mushrooms, could prevent this side effect
Back at the end of 2024, EJ Antoni was citing the Primerica Household Budget Index as indicator of consumer conditions. A recent study by a major American bank showed over a quarter of middle-income earners are living paycheck to paycheck, even those making ov
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to l
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Scorching conditions this year have triggered wildfires in European countries that are normally considered to be damp and cool
Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 After Curiosity’s 14 years on the surface, Mars continues to surprise. Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have
Critically endangered pygmy raccoons on Cozumel Island in Mexico have shown remarkable creativity by making balls out of rubbish at beach clubs
Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39
The James Webb Space Telescope seems to have discovered more ancient black holes than theory had predicted, and now we have a new way to explain why
The takeaway Measures of household financial well-being don’t always align with consumer sentiment. You can feel relatively secure about your finances while still being pessimistic about the overall economy. Are you doing OK? In an earlier post, we desc
Mandatory AI checks paired with manual spikes for complex changes keep developers sharp. Teams can boost velocity by skipping peer reviews on low-risk PRs and using AI approvals, provided most developers are code owners and teams are small. By Ben Linders
The “Two and a Half Men” star, who is originally from New Zealand, says owning a piece of that paradise is still out of her reach, as property there is too expensive.
Data-center investment has become one of the largest capital-expenditure cycles in financial markets, with U.S. hyperscalers expected to deploy roughly $700 billion in 2026. This investment boom has raised concerns that large computing loads impose external co
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…major publicly traded cybersecurity firms lost roughly $65–80 billion, or about 8–10% of their combined value, in the days following disclosure of the Hugging Face/OpenAI incident; by early September they had recovered roughly $58 billion, representing
Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!
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The company’s AI-powered coding assistant is driving major sales momentum.
“I’m desperately trying to plan ahead while I’m still able.”
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