Google shuts down Project Mariner
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired‘s Maxwell...
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Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
This week, the Trump administration backpedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models...
Read moreYet Another Way to Bypass Google Chrome’s Encryption Protection
Authors of the VoidStealer Trojan uncovered a way to get around Google’s App-Bound Encryption (ABE), opening the door to infostealers.
Read moreInstructure Breach Exposes Schools’ Vendor Dependence
ShinyHunters’ attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors.
Read moreCiv 7 is getting ‘by far the most-requested addition’ later this month, but I’m more interested in whether it’ll finally feel fully baked
Firaxis says the massive Test of Time update is Civ 7’s “biggest and most fundamentally game-changing.”
Read moreHow a Cursor AI agent wiped PocketOS’s production database in under 10 seconds
Who gave agents root access? On April 25, 2026, a Cursor AI coding agent deleted the entire production database of PocketOS, a SaaS platform serving car...
Read moreNASA’s Dryden Aeronautical Test Range Supports Flight, Space Missions
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Range operators at the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in...
Read moreAstronomers Witness the Awesome Power of a Black Hole’s “Dancing Jets”
New Curtin University-led research has used a radio telescope that spans the Earth to snap images that measure the immense power of jets from black holes,...
Read moreMirai-Based xlabs_v1 Botnet Exploits ADB to Hijack IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai-derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to enlist them in a...
Read moreHow David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
AI and Crypto Czar David O. Sacks speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education at the White House. |...
Read moreMatt Taibbi Loses His Vexatious SLAPP Suit As Judge Explains What A ‘Metaphor’ Means
Perhaps Matt Taibbi’s most famous bit of writing ever was his takedown of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stone (and then in a book that followed) that...
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PCI-SIG PCIe 8.0 Specification Draft 0.5 Released
The PCI-SIG PCIe 8.0 specification draft 0.5 is now out, getting us another step closer to 1TB/s PCIe Gen8 x16 links in servers The post PCI-SIG...
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