Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied
'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg
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The Control Gap: Enterprise AI organizations have an ownership problem, not a technology problem — and most are governing it by hand
AI portfolios are expanding far faster than the ability to govern them across enterprises. Most organizations run a contested field of platforms, each claiming to be the “primary” AI layer; few could ...
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Mexico’s Victory Over Ecuador Made the Ground Shake. Was It an Artificial Earthquake?
Fans’ euphoric reactions to the Mexican national team’s recent victory in the 2026 World Cup caused a series of unusual vibrations that were detected by seismic warning systems.
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An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time
SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world
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OpenClaw’s new app doesn’t run AI on your phone. That’s the whole point.
OpenClaw finally dropped its iOS and Android apps this week, meaning you can now ditch the Telegram and WhatsApp methods The post OpenClaw’s new app doesn’t run AI on your phone. That̵...
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How to install the latest Android 17 Beta on Google Pixel
Google’s ongoing Android 17 beta is now preparing the subsequent feature and maintenance updates following the main Android 17 release. Here’s how to get your hands on the absolute latest.
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Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop
Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.
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AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
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Cloudflare wants to build the economic layer of the AI web
AI has changed the web right before our eyes. With Google’s AI Overviews doing the heavy lifting, publications that once The post Cloudflare wants to build the economic layer of the AI web appea...
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An Explosion Knocked Out Anduril’s Rocket Motor Test Site in Mississippi
The incident could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business, which designs and tests prototype motors for military customers.
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Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
5 min readSOCRadar powers rapid threat detection with AlloyDB and Gemini Enterprise
Editor’s note: SOCRadar is a leading cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence to businesses worldwide. As the volume of cyber threats continued to grow, SOCRadar needed to modernize its...
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Reliability Comes From the System, Not the Agent
One of the most common questions executives ask right now sounds straightforward: is the agent reliable enough yet? It feels like the right place to start, but the framing quietly points people in the...
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You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly
Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.
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NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight
Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule
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AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings
AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leading vector and hybrid search, near 100% ac...
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Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin
Is PlayStation about to make the same mistake Microsoft made with Xbox One?
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“You Only Compute Once”: How Clockwork wants to put an end to AI training restarts
On a large enough GPU cluster, something is always breaking. That’s just a fact of life. The standard fix is The post “You Only Compute Once”: How Clockwork wants to put an end to AI...
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Penalty Shootouts: Is the Team That Kicks First More Likely to Win?
Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first.
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Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form
Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait
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