OpenAI says researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol uncovered two critical PHP vulnerabilities with severity scores of 9.2 and demonstrated working exploits, after which the company coordinated fixes.
A portable keyboard and kickstand make it a viable emergency workstation—even if iOS still gets in the way.
A host of election-denying candidates are running for attorney general in states across the country.
After testing multiple models, I’m convinced voice control belongs on the family calendar. Greenlight’s Family Hub shows why.
How much do you know about permafrost? Maybe, like me, you’ve been aware that this layer of frozen soil is thawing, that it’s important in the global puzzle of climate change … and that’s about the extent of it. The great news for both of us is that my colleague James Temple just published two…
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the right one. As compan...
Misaligned incentives led to an intractable argument
Google’s TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
The iPhone Duo comes out tomorrow but, given the strong pre-order demand, it is already looking to be a smash hit. And we are all expecting Apple to follow up with a second-generation model next fall, which means the company has to be already working on the next-gen hardware. On his Power On podc...
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Almost 500,000 phishing emails were sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Kobe, Japan, hotel room.
Goldmund’s $240,000 Mimesis Statement is an exercise in extreme Swiss sound engineering—and only one part of a $1.5 million audio setup.
Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment
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Tesla wants to sell Cybercabs to other transport companies before the year ends.
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Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—fr...
They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs
Law enforcement agencies have disrupted nearly 11,000 cybercriminal networks and arrested more than 1,400 people in Operation Serengeti III, which targeted business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams. [...]