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With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation environment into the hottest item on the planet. Over the course of forty years many...

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says “The Mythos Effect” will see customers scour their networks for unsupported devices and replace them ASAP. Mythos is Anthropic’s bug-finding model and has proven so effective that vendors and open source projects are now finding more...

Chinese tech giant Tencent has turned its back on instant profits, betting that a new business unit that creates its own AI and embeds that in its products will pay off to a greater extent than cashing in on demand for computing resources. During the company’s Q2...

Researchers from Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found processors made by China’s Loongson have leaky caches that attackers could use to seek specific data. Loongson has developed its own LoongArch instruction set architecture (ISA) that...

OpenAI appears to be serving ads after buyers have halted their campaigns, and charging them for the privilege.OpenAI began testing ad sales in ChatGPT in the US back in February and has been gradually expanding the service in other regions, including the United...

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight others’ security failures. Hopefully, there’s a lesson in all this, but it could just be “stop shooting yourself in the foot.” Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network?...

Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year to find the attack paths that artificial intelligence-equipped...

Huntress Labs Inc. said today that an Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s Windows server into Safe Mode to knock its endpoint security offline — and it worked. The same reboot also broke the ransomware. Safe Mode loads only core Windows drivers and...

There are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to solve a particular personal problem, sometimes it’s easiest to just build your own. That’s precisely what [hvermaak.projects] did when it came to the Ouma Ria Smart Clock. The clock...

Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others yawn: “Oh, you found the Higgs Boson, just like Higgs predicted. Call me when you have something...

Versatility is in, with people expected to work across the tech stack.

Rent-a-GPU cloud Nebius plans to bring online over a gigawatt of datacenter capacity every year starting in 2027, but doing so will require playing the margins and juggling a mountain of debt. “Our future capacity pipeline effectively makes Nebius one of just a few...

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The Los Angeles Lakers have new owners again. The team announced it has been sold to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner Wednesday for a record-breaking $12.5 billion. The sale comes less than a year after American businessman Mark Walter purchased the franchise. Walter’s...