The Group of Seven wealthy democracies said Friday that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel after the fuel recently hit record high prices in the United States....

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Today I learned that one Space Shuttle flight (in 1985) successfully used the Abort-to-Orbit recovery plan (changing its flight path in real time in response to an engine failure during ascent). The overall mission continued, accomplished its other objectives, and was...

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This authentic-looking scam starts with a sponsored Google link – and it’s catching people off-guard.

The recruitment process has become so frustrating lately that more than 1.2 million recruiters and candidates alike take to Reddit each week to peruse a subreddit appropriately called r/recruitinghell. What’s largely to blame? AI.  Among U.S. hiring managers, 60% say...

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive...

Micro Center now makes buyers sign a declaration and show ID before buying.

Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A...

A critical flaw in GitLab's AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab said in an advisory. The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance to AI models, and only...

Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand,...

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The scale of unauthorized or previously unknown actions by AI agents keeps getting bigger by the day. More than 100 organizations have now received a metaphorical knock on the door from OpenAI after it discovered their AI agents have in some way tampered with their...

With all the talk about how AI might one day ill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people, psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash test dummies" to solve that.

ChatGPT adds virtual clothing try-ons and product Favorites. Learn how the tools work, what the previews cannot confirm, and how to manage photo privacy. The post OpenAI Launches Virtual Try-On for Clothes and Accessories in ChatGPT appeared first on TechRepublic.

A developer’s AI pain experiment produced distress-like responses and sparked ethical debate, but it does not establish that models consciously suffer. The post Can AI Feel Pain? A Developer’s Experiment Raises Ethical Questions appeared first on TechRepublic.

Reddit is retiring RSS and its remaining public Data API access, giving moderators, app developers, and organizations several migration deadlines. The post Reddit Is Killing RSS and Public API Access: What Changes and When appeared first on TechRepublic.

Amazon’s 2026 Kindle refresh brings new Kindle, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft models with different prices, displays, battery life, and features. The post Amazon’s New Kindle Lineup Compared: Kindle vs Paperwhite vs Colorsoft appeared first on TechRepublic.

The RTX 5070 Ti and Radeon RX 9070 XT are closely matched in 2026, but pricing, ray tracing, AI features, and efficiency separate them. The post RTX 5070 Ti vs Radeon RX 9070 XT: Which GPU Is the Better Upgrade in 2026? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Another all-European podcast for you this week, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for an evening looking at the past week in Hackaday. And this week there is a particularly good selection to look at. A while back we showed you a project that put synthetic...