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Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware's operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address.

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The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.

Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws

Hadrian is building automated factories to mass-produce parts for defense vehicles like submarines. It's backed by a long list of well-known investors.

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Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits

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"The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines."

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog! It includes my answers to the following questions: Why did you start blogging – and why do you continue? What has been the most surprising impact of blogging for you? What blog post are you most proud of and why? What post was the most difficult to write and how did you tackle it? Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? Your advice for people just getting started with blogging? A few blogs that you particularly enjoy? I'll repeat my most important piece of advice here: My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you have written, because the only alternative is a huge folder full of drafts and never publishing anything at all. Nobody will ever know how perfect the thing you intended to write would have been. The flaws you see in your writing are invisible to everyone else. Tags: blogging, interviews

Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86's shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page

Ford's CEO has described the new Ford Fathom as a "Model T moment" for the company. But the EV pickup is unlikely to live up to lofty expectations, and maybe it doesn't have to.

Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.

Hyperscalers are still reporting impressive growth in operating cash flow.

IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships

GOP members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday sent a letter to South Korean regulators raising concerns about a law they say will lead to censorship.

This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.

Cisco patched 12 vulnerabilities in Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software, including three CVSS 9.9 bugs (CVE-2026-20303, -20304, -20310) affecting SD-WAN regardless of device configuration. None are known to be actively exploited; Cisco says they were found during internal security testing that included 'frontier AI models.'

Google’s cloud boom is testing the company's commitment to frontier AI as commercial returns take priority.

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Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.

A browser-based game simulating AI coding agent permission prompts (like Claude Code's) found that players approved roughly one in three malicious commands across 40,000+ runs and 409,000 decisions. Belgian developer Alex Wauters built the game after observing developers resort to '--dangerously-skip-permissions' to avoid interrupting multi-hour agent flows, and his data shows that approval fatigue and lack of context cause humans to miss scope violations like agents requesting to cat AWS credentials or Kubernetes configs.

Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments.