Microsoft Power Apps occupies a peculiar position in the development landscape. It is simultaneously one of the most accessible application platforms ever created and one of the most frustrating platforms to push beyond its comfort zone. For CRUD forms, approval...

While rechargeable batteries are generally very safe, fires at home, workplaces, and even on commercial aircraft are now on the rise. Here's why.

If you pitched the job of “chief design officer,” 20 years ago, you might’ve been laughed out of the boardroom.  Now, design can be found in the C-suite. The U.S. government even has its own chief design officer now—Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia. What does it mean to...

At first glance, it’s just a middle-aged man eating a mountain of steak chunks at Arby’s.  Look closer, though, and you start to notice something strange about this already supremely strange scene. The video, posted last October, came from a group of pranking young...

Founders face a unique risk when it comes to burnout. The same drive that builds a thriving company can destroy them. However, that doesn’t mean founders have to succumb. There’s often a pattern that you can predict, and with the right strategies, you can defuse these...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code execution. LangGraph is an open-source framework created by LangChain to build complex,...

The critical-severity OS command injection vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The post Ivanti Sentry Exploitation Attempts Hitting Honeypots appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The browser refresh resolved critical and high-severity security defects, including a dozen use-after-free bugs. The post Chrome 149 Update Patches 28 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

EPISODE 11 "And uh... what are you doing?" the Head of Security asks, entering the Security office as I'm making my way to the exit – with a PC under my arm. "Just taking this back to the office to archive the contents and then reset it to factory defaults," I say....

Imagine asking a travel agent to find flights from San Francisco to London. They present three detailed options, and you follow up with a simple request: "Book the second one, but change the departure to the morning." If they stare at you blankly and ask, "Which...

While SpaceX’s IPO captures global financial headlines, a high-stakes space ecosystem has been quietly emerging. By shifting the goalposts from Mars to the moon and low Earth orbit, a broad coalition of smaller players have been investing in and building the...

There’s a word for aimlessly scrolling job ads without mustering the energy to apply to any of them. That word is “doomjobbing,” and it’s often fueled by the anxiety and uncertainty many workers are experiencing from navigating a turbulent and frustrating job market....

An INTERPOL-led operation last month resulted in the disruption of Sniper Dz, a decade-long phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, Group-IB said Thursday. The effort, codenamed Operation Ramz, took place between October 2025 and February 2026, and saw authorities...

Change these Google Messages settings for a cleaner, quieter, and more private texting experience.

An AI hacker claims to have achieved a prompt-based jailbreak shortly after Fable 5’s launch, but Anthropic says it’s not a real jailbreak. The post Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI Jailbreak appeared first on SecurityWeek.

American economic policy is facing a crisis that cannot be solved simply by an election. The biggest economic problems of the moment, workforce shortages, small business fragility, and innovation gaps between regions, are stubbornly resistant to the usual solutions....

BORK!BORK!BORK! Windows swings for a six but smacks the stumps instead as the baleful glow of a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) adorns Worcestershire County Cricket Club. We were worried that, with recent editions of Windows, the traditional white monospaced text on a...

Abstract: Classical Design by Contract (DbC) implicitly relies on the "Memory Axiom"—the assumption that human collaborators possess persistent contextual memory. The emergence of stateless AI agents as primary code-producers invalidates this axiom. We propose that in...

Our recently concluded event in Europe saw the return of the Hackaday Communicator badge — a stylish handheld gadget with a QWERTY keyboard, a LoRa radio, and an ESP32. It came complete with a simple messaging app built into it’s MicroPython firmware, and by all...

Would you zap your brain to treat depression? In December, the Food and Drug Administration cleared a device that uses mild electrical currents to stimulate the brain, marking a shift in how the condition could be treated. Known as transcranial direct-current...

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COMPUTEX 2026 It’s hard enough for startups to compete with AMD and Nvidia on chip design. The rise of rack-scale architectures has only made things harder. Companies not only have to invest in chip design but also the mechanical, thermal, and power engineering...

Oracle has mitigated CVE-2026-35273, but it has not publicly confirmed the vulnerability’s in-the-wild exploitation. The post Google Confirms Exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day by ShinyHunters appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Authorities in Europe have disrupted AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service used by ransomware gangs and cybercriminal networks. Europol, in a statement issued Thursday, said the dismantling of AudiA6 cut off a "key financial pipeline used to wash hundreds of...

ON CALL 你好 Nǐ hǎo, dear reader, and welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of translating technical trauma while delivering transcendent tech support. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Jackson" who...

A contained honeypot impersonating a small internet-facing energy site collected 54 days of traffic – roughly 1.7 million events from 16,568 unique sources, discovered within the first hour. Most was commodity automation, but a thin tail spoke real Modbus, including...

Introduction: When engineers first encounter entity resolution, the problem looks deceptively simple: compare records, score likely matches, connect the ones above a threshold, cluster the graph. That mental model works for a whiteboard interview. It does not survive...

News analysis: A throwaway line in a Google guide for vintage shoppers points to a deeper shift: search is moving from isolated queries to AI-led conversations, and many websites are not ready. Google did not need a keynote stage, a product launch trailer or a...