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The Quantum Computing Breakthrough That Changes Everything
Google's Willow chip just achieved 100 million qubit coherence. What this means for cryptography, drug discovery, and the future of computation.
Neuralink vs Synchron: The Race to Merge Humans with AI
Brain-computer interfaces are no longer science fiction. We compare the two leading technologies and what FDA approval means for you.
Self-Driving Cars in 2026: Where We Actually Are
Waymo, Tesla FSD, and Cruise — the real state of autonomous vehicles, without the hype. Plus: when will robotaxis reach your city?
The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to re...
You do your own time
There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming...
Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now
Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatm...
PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data
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U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals
Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend ac...
Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a...
Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing
Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Ameri...
The Download: soccers data renaissance and Chinas big nuclear plans
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. Inside soccer’s data renaissance Imagine tuning in...
Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s A...
Job titles of the future: Natures drug designer
In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use. For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes...
For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
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ShinyHunters Exploits Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273) to Breach Universities
The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hard...
New Attacks Trick OpenClaw AI Agent Into Running Code and Leaking Secrets
Two security teams have shown, in separate research published this week, that OpenClaw, the popular self-hosted AI agent, can be driven to run attacker-controlled code or hand over sensitive data thro...
The Download: the “steroid olympics and a safer Mythos
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window...
The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture
Testosterone. Methenolone. Nandrolone. Human growth hormone and EPO. Meldonium, modafinil, and mixed amphetamine salts. Clomiphene, anastrozole, levothyroxine, and liothyronine. Patches and capsules,...
The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about AI
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenati...
Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
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High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character
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The Download: how the World Cup ball will fly and OpenAIs super app
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far...
Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far
Much is new about this month’s upcoming FIFA World Cup tournament, which will be held in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It hosts more teams than ever before. It’s the first to occur in three different ho...
AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload
Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message add...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More
Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot g...
The Hardest Fork
Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it's a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I've seen the findings, and they're bad. These aren't "whoops, this line right here is wr...
How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
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Cant make sense of Dashlanes vault theft notification? Youre not alone.
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New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily desig...
Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping tra...
CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerab...
The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots impact on our brains
This is todays edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whats going on in the world of technology. The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security th...
Are AI chatbots making us lose control of our brains?
This week I’ve been at SXSW London. There’s been music, film, and a lot—and I mean a lot—of talk about AI. I also had the opportunity to sit down with Gloria Mark, a psychologist at the University of...
The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos
On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email...
Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults
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