Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent to load an attacker's web page, and that page's JavaScript can reach a privileged local service on...

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. 

Things are back to normal around the Podcast studio, and this week you’ll hear the dulcet tones of Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos. In Hackaday news, we still have a Frikkin’ Lasers Challenge going on, and now you can even enter your project into it! Join the...

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since...

You may want to check the cheese in your fridge before your next snack. The list of products included in a previous cheese recall has dramatically expanded. The recall is over fears that the select cheeses could be contaminated with the potentially deadly bacterium...

Why I stopped trusting hosted analytics for the raw layer and built a self-hosted event pipeline instead. A few years ago, I was the data engineer on a mobile game team going through soft launch. We were watching the DAU graph climb in Firebase Analytics, feeling...

Teaching AI to detect answering machines might seem like a straightforward task at first. After all, for a human listener it is usually easy to tell the difference between a prerecorded message and a real person speaking on the line. What we often underestimate,...

It's June 2026, and the hackathon landscape has quietly become one of the most interesting places to be if you're building at the intersection of AI, Web3, and open infrastructure. Whether you have a half-baked idea or a production-grade prototype gathering dust,...

AI hallucinations are an unavoidable feature of probabilistic models, not a problem that can be completely solved. The author argues that AI safety should focus less on making models perfect and more on verifying outputs before they reach users. Current systems often...

Over the past five decades, ==the share of Americans aged 65 and older has nearly doubled to 18%== - and the peak is still ahead. More than 4.1 million Baby Boomers are projected to turn 65 each year through 2027, making this ==the largest retirement wave== in U.S....

I tested Claude Opus 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 across real production workflows. The newer models score higher on benchmarks but break file creation, Excel parsing, and code execution. 4.6 does what you ask it to do. Newer is not always better when reliability matters more...

The riskiest moment in a distributed database migration is not the cutover. It is the planning meeting weeks earlier where someone says, "Let's figure out how many nodes we need," before anyone has decided how the cluster should fail. I have spent close to two decades...

Over the recent period, Hyperliquid has processed $172.63 billion in perpetual trading volume, representing 31.9% of all tracked perp DEX activity. Open interest currently sits at $9.66 billion, while BTC/USD alone generates $2.26 billion in daily volume. Growth has...

It's Q3 and your auditors are asking for a full hardware inventory. You open the spreadsheet your team has been maintaining since 2021. It has 1,847 rows, three different naming conventions, a tab nobody is sure is current, and seventeen entries that just say...

A newly disclosed BootROM exploit affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips gives researchers a way to break the secure boot chain on millions of iPhones and other Apple devices. The exploit, dubbed “usbliter8” by security researchers at Paradigm Shift, targets a flaw in...

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Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. "With these actions we deprive cybercriminals...

We feature a lot of fun projects with LEDs and lasers and all kinds of light effects going on. Most of these are very digital. However, there are a great many ways to make beautiful lighting effects without ones and zeros. The Maelstrom Lamp from [Michele Lorenzi] is...

AI infrastructure startup Tensordyne has taped out its first commercial accelerator, with fabrication on TSMC’s 3nm process already underway. Developed in collaboration with Juniper Networks and Broadcom, Tensordyne’s systems promise higher throughput and lower power...

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Android TV botnet Popa linked to Israeli firm, Velvet Ant maintained decade-long stealth, unpatched GCP Config Connector flaw enables takeover. The post In Other News: Apple Patches Beats Eavesdropping...

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.

Make your own ice cream, gelato, sorbet, and smoothie bowls with the Ninja Creami, now 22% off for Amazon Prime Day.

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign,...