AI Agents Are Blind to the PastIt’s 10:00 AM. Your Slack is blowing up. A critical NullPointerException is crashing the payment gateway in production. The stack trace points to PaymentService.java:42.You do what any modern developer does in 2026: you paste the stack...

Talk to any DBA about the biggest shift in their work over the last two years, and the answer is often the same: AI is now running the show. It can write queries in seconds, analyze execution plans in an instant, and turn backlogged documentation into a simple...

We've tested and reviewed the best tablets on the market for note-taking in study sessions, meetings, or when you're feeling creative.

New T-Mobile 5G Home Internet customers can get their first month on T-Mobile, plus up to $200 back via prepaid Mastercard. We break down the details.

Liquid cooling makes it possible to operate multi-kilowatt accelerators and ultra -dense datacenter racks, but new research commissioned by startup Accelsius suggests that we've been using the wrong liquids for the job. The company found different cooling fluids can...

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Using social engineering, hackers compromised employee accounts with access to personal and health information. The post Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Swedish VPN vendor Mullvad is facing a backlash from some customers after co-founder Daniel Berntsson personally donated SEK 5 million (£385,000, $519,000) to the controversial populist Örebropartiet, which is running in Sweden's national elections for the first time....

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Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable websites. The two security flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and...

The ServiceNow AI platform vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-6875 can be exploited for remote code execution. The post Exploitation of ServiceNow Vulnerability Seen Days After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Want to predict how long you’ll live? Knowing is impossible, but there are simple research-backed tests—tests you can do for free, at home—that provide indications. For example: You can do the sit-rise test. You can try to stand on one leg for 10 seconds. You can see...

If you’re feeling burned out right now, you’re not alone: In a DHR Global survey of corporate professionals, 83% reported some degree of burnout. AI isn’t helping. A sabbatical can make a difference—though it’s still relatively rare for employees to take one. In a new...

The European Commission yesterday fined Alibaba subsidiary AliExpress €550 million ($630m/ £467m) for not doing enough to stop selling dodgy products - the largest ever fine issued under the Digital Services Act. AliExpress is Alibaba’s consumer-facing e-commerce...

The UK government's projects authority has sounded the alarm over progress on Skynet 6, the estimated £8.35 billion program to upgrade the military's satellite communications. The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) rated the Skynet 6...

The latest Zimbra refresh resolves command injection, XSS, restriction bypass, and SSRF security defects. The post Zimbra Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

If electronic paper displays have one downside, it’s generally refresh rate. Earlier versions of the tech might only have been able to do single-digit frames per second, while modern, mid-range devices can sometimes manage 10-20 FPS — and that’s not including the...

Xfce is a Linux desktop environment that is great at giving old machines new life. Two major distributions present this desktop differently. So, which is best?

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Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score:...

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to...

Google Cloud last week experienced an outage that analysts say demonstrates that not all promises of cloudy resilience are created equal. Google’s incident report explained that three services – the VMware Engine (GCVE), NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS)...

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After joining Amazon as a product leader in 2022, I saw a series of layoffs and return-to-office mandates over the following three years that made any semblance of presence in home life impossible. The tech industry layoffs disproportionately impacted women, and the...