A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this : Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at the Hands-On Science Center. Designed for curious learners of al
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, now allied with six other armed groups, hopes to oust Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
How ordinary people describe power, repression, absurdity, and life under Putin.
A tumultuous TV thriller delves into damage and revenge.
The famous thinker’s new memoir reveals a fateful political and intellectual blind spot.
Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally pre
A conversation with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa.
The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The post Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? first appeared on
Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings. A few of the highlights: AI agents increasingly handled reconnaissance, exploitation, data
Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA New 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best photo of Morris yet. They really like hanging out under that sign in the harbor! Tags: photography , w
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge. Tags: coding-agen
Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Peoples Bancorp Inc.
A competition between the gravity of the inner core and other forces in the mantle is altering the Earth's rotation.
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin on October 6 and 7, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.
President’s ‘hard, drastic and necessary measure’, likely to attract widespread public support, polls suggest The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has signed an order banning fixed-odds sports betting just over a week before the first round of t
An emergency has been declared across the capital of Thailand as days of heavy rain leave the city inundated.
Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That's what a subclass of so-called "electric SUV" (eSUV) e-bikes claims to do, with their wide, all-terrain tires and front and
CNN was scheduled to fly with US President Donald Trump for his trip to Tennessee on Saturday.
Asked about the Iranian proposal, a US official told the BBC "constructive discussions" were taking place through mediators.
Lula, who is currently in a tight presidential race against Flávio Bolsonaro, said the industry was a "cancer" that he must "remove".
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
Is Quince the Away alternative we’ve been waiting for? I tested its luggage to find out, and the price difference is hard to ignore.
Jane Smith reportedly used ChatGPT to edit photo to show name Trump ordered US agencies to use for Lake Ontario amid trade war with Canada The CEO of a Michigan credit union is no longer employed there, according to the organization, after she posted on social
Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks is urging customers worldwide to temporarily shut down their servers on Saturday for a six-hour window after receiving threat intelligence warning of a potentially imminent cyberattack. [...]
The Clop ransomware gang has moved its data leak site to a new Tor address after confirming its previous server was compromised and defaced through an unpatched Grav CMS flaw that BleepingComputer has learned is an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability.
They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.
Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.
Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts. [...]
Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal whe
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-5430) affecting multiple products from enterprise software provider WSO2. [...]
One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in pla
Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus e
The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
Anthropic now allows you to run Claude Code via cloud sessions without signing up for the research preview, and it's offering up to $250 in free usage credits, so more users can give it a try. [...]
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 Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-87902 WordPress Core Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for m
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-65660 Microsoft SharePoint Code Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-67279 Mikrotik RouterOS Improper Enforcement of Be
XDS Spark co-founder Sam Carlisle and GDC Festival of Gaming content marketing manager Beth Elderkin discuss the evolving world of co-development.
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The full line-up of this year's GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit has been announced, featuring keynotes from Sarah Venables, founder of the HR Confidence Club; Jonny Hopper, CEO of Glowmade Studio; and Harvey Elliott and Carmen Martino of Playstack. The event is on
Danish studio Trophy Games has acquired Airport Simulator: First Class developer Playrion from Paradox Interactive. Read more
Meta has revealed two AI-powered game tools that let players develop 2D and 3D games using prompts on mobile devices and browsers. Read more
Asha Sharma marked the conclusion of her first hundred days as Xbox CEO with a public blog post in which she called for the next hundred days to be a "reset" of the business. Highlighting the division's low "accountability margin" and declining revenues, along
We might be long past the days of games companies raising eye-watering figures on Kickstarter, but the platform is still a viable way to raise money to fund – at last part of – your game. Read more
Cloudflare recently documented the migration of its main blog from WordPress to EmDash, the open source content management system developed internally. The new platform is designed to improve performance and caching, and it was tested to handle traffic of up t
This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fancy dinners. With so many climate voices in one place, the di
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie's still pretending to be a vampire, Kelsey's been breeding an army of cats, Mat's been melting mounted warriors, Marie's been a willing
This is pretty amazing: However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT6 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT6 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 26 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featu
Stop readin' and start watchin'.
The company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses.
Clear as mud.
The Wardogs grind is real, and kind of exhausting.
Complete the last puzzle in Silent Hill: Townfall.
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
Unit 42 security experts address critical cybersecurity misconceptions, offering practical insights to help your organization reinforce its enterprise defenses. The post 3 Consulting Myths Debunked by Unit 42 Experts appeared first on Unit 42 .
It's actually on sale for $4 at the moment.
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
During a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28, NASA and Boeing leadership will discuss Starliner’s development and plans for regular crew flights to and from the International Space Station. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live T
Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood pressure down from a dangerously high level in hospital
Cameron Wagenius was involved in some of the most high-profile attacks of 2024 while on active duty. The post Army soldier sentenced for spree of attacks on AT&T, Snowflake and other major companies appeared first on CyberScoop .
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.
The Republic of San Marino became the 76th signatory to the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in the city of Rimini on Friday with NASA and U.S. Department of State officials present. “San Marino joins a growing coalition of like-minded nations committed to th
Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space. NASA is working to change that paradigm. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently com
What did we think was happening back then, compared to what we know now? Figure 1: Nonresidential fixed investment from 2001Q1 advance release (blue), from 2026Q2 2nd release (black), both in logs, 1999Q1=0. NBER defined peak to trough recession dates shaded g
Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workf
2026-2027 DWU: Middle School Design Challenge Overview The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.” As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA,
Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by BancFirst Corporation
It’s hard to price the threats posed by a misaligned superintelligence
How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS. The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Perplexity has migrated its search infrastructure from Amazon DynamoDB to CobbleDB, an internally developed key-value store in Rust. This change reduced latency and costs associated with handling large document batches. The new architecture supports high query
Scientists discovered two strange new sea spider species in the Salish Sea, including a hairy-legged, red-eyed species that can groom itself with comb-like appendages. Another is frequently covered in tiny parasites, and researchers say many more undiscovered
A major analysis suggests Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a genetic disorder closely linked to autism, may affect about 1 in 7,300 people and more than 45,000 Americans. Researchers warn that thousands of cases may remain hidden because genetic testing is often not
CERN has started replacing some of the Large Hadron Collider’s most important magnets as part of its High-Luminosity upgrade. The new superconducting magnets will produce fields about 40% stronger, allowing particle beams to be squeezed more tightly before the
AWS details how the latest Model Context Protocol specification removes protocol-level sessions, sticky-session requirements, and session storage for remote MCP servers. The change enables independent request routing and simpler horizontal scaling while shifti
Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could help explain ancient plate fragments, volc
Grafana Labs has published a practical approach for monitoring Cypress test suites by converting test results into Prometheus metrics and sending them to Grafana Cloud. By Craig Risi
The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?
QCon AI New York has confirmed 23 sessions covering agent authorization, production guardrails, shared inference infrastructure, and the evaluation of AI systems after deployment. By Artenisa Chatziou
Here, in five waves of panel data (N = 1,966 US adults), we examined associations between life satisfaction and self-reported use of ten common social technologies measured every 3 months on a six-point frequency scale from ‘I did not use’ to ‘multiple times d
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That is the title of my latest Free Press column, here is the closing bit: Sick and elderly Americans will go to Chinese companies for their AI-invented and AI-tested medical devices and drugs. America still will be a wealthy country, so China will charge the
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“I am a retired senior citizen living check-to-check.”
“Her younger son lives in the condo, but wants to move elsewhere with friends.”
“On each of these weekends away, she’s probably spending $500.”
Don’t look now, but there are some technical reasons to believe that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was right when he declared to the financial markets that “I am the house now.”
“We have no debt and own our primary home, a vacation home, as well as my mother’s home in another state.”
Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
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It pains me to say this, but if we actually “get AGI,” the resulting boom in industrial capacity from robotics and massive society-wide wealth creation will look like a total vindication of neoliberalism. The discourse about financialization and offshoring bei
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Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anth
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