Meta may have been a bit too enthusiastic in its highly publicized campaign to reduce middle management.  The social media giant has reportedly been asking some individual contributors in its Applied AI (AAI) division if they would like to return to managerial roles,...

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction transistors and 1959’s RCA Nuvistor both allowing you to build a compact circuit with relatively low power usage and no high voltages. Although we now...

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If you’re unsettled about Netflix watching your every move during your next embarrassing binge watch, you’re not alone. In a new lawsuit, the state of Florida accused the streaming giant of deceiving customers about its plans to make money from ads, concealing the...

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.

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Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — but only one of them was ever Super. It’s that console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, that [Inkbox] has decided to delve deeply into as he...

No chance of melting modern power cables if you remove them.

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GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal...

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate...

Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks. The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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PaperCut flaws were exploited across 440 servers using hundreds of AI agents. Learn which versions are affected and what security teams should do now. The post AI Agents Help Hackers Compromise 440 PaperCut Servers appeared first on TechRepublic.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with market data, citations and document tools for banking, research and compliance teams worldwide. The post OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services: What Banks Should Know appeared first on TechRepublic.

Anthropic says researchers used Claude for biological work that could support weapons development, exposing new challenges for AI safeguards. The post Anthropic Says Claude Used in Possible Bioweapon Research appeared first on TechRepublic.

If humans ever make it to Mars - and that’s still a big IF - they will need to build shelters there. And they could build those shelters out of yeast and gelatin, if a method described by Hong Kong-based researchers makes it out of the lab. A paper published on...

If you want to understand how 2026 is going, in March The Register reported that scientists had connected a simulated fruit fly brain to a virtual body and let it wander around a virtual world. Now another simulated fly nervous system is trading crypto. Behold...