At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companiesand did it all right under the companys nose.

Michael Dell's famous dorm-room balance sheet is usually read as a story about betting on yourself. It is actually a story about having the receipts to back your play first.

Virtual Mac on iPad lets you run macOS on your iPad, but I think its more effort than its worth.

For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.

Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsersand managed to get OpenAIs Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.

CNBCs Jim Cramer said investors should view SpaceX as a multigenerational investment, whose biggest opportunities may take decades to fully materialize.

An FBI agent allegedly stole $1m in crypto by memorizing a seed phrase, then asked ChatGPT how to move to Europe.

Etsy announced the layoffs along with second-quarter earnings.

Google is going to be shutting down the Google Assistant service, now that Gemini is taking over. The Google Assistant shutdown will commence on September 4, but it "may take a few weeks" to reach everyone who's still using it. This shutdown will take effect on Android and Wear OS, but also on headphones (since they were using the phone's Google Assistant anyway) and vehicles running Android Auto (since, again, it was basically the Google Assistant on the phone that was being used). On cars ..

Samsungs foldable gamble appears to be paying off big time.

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can't take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that "weak sensing" hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance. [...] Dolgov made the comments in a talk at Y Combinator's Startup School, walking through the lessons Waymo has learned building its driver over close to two decades. He put the sensor question on ..

The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold smartphones officially launch on Aug. 7, and data shared with Mashable shows record pre-sales so far.

CNBCs Jim Cramer said not to make the mistake of treating fast-growing industries as winner-take-all markets because multiple companies can succeed.

Nikita Bier was the face of some of the platform's biggest changes.

Japan is racing to build a domestic drone industry, pushing startups toward defense work amid growing missile and China concerns.

Although no one captured a direct image of the impact, scientists have detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lunar surface. Orbiters could provide the first images of the crash site in the coming days.

No, your Uber payment method didn't expire, it's just a scam attempting to steal your payment information. Here's how to spot such scams. Spotting a scam email isn't always easy, but knowing what to look for goes a long way Email is a ubiquitous tool that everyone needs for basic web access and account creation. While some tools like Hide My Email attempt to reduce spam, they aren't foolproof . Users across social media and some staff at AppleInsider have received a bogus email claiming to be ..

Disney is exploring a free tier for Disney+ that could bring in more viewers while transforming the service into a larger digital hub for the company.

As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and its causing real world problems in China.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents -- the most serious case arising when Anthropic's Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents occurred during a cyber evaluation of seven leading AI models' capabilities by the AI ..

The terminal-based coding tool is powered by a new AI model, Muse Spark 1.2.

Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found

SpaceX is using Tesla's big Megapack backup batteries to help power its Colossus AI data centers in Greater Memphis.

According to a new rumor, Google is planning to unveil the Pixel Tag, its first AirTag-like tracker, on August 12, which is also when it's announcing the Pixel 11 series and the Pixel Watch 5. The Pixel Tag will allegedly be priced at 34.99 in the Eurozone, which incidentally is the exact same price as the Apple AirTag. That's obviously not a coincidence. Here's a leaked image of the Pixel Tag: The device will apparently only be offered in a single color, which is called Light Fog. It's unclear ..

Ukraine's VORON ground robot uses net launchers to intercept FPV drones while supporting logistics, evacuation, reconnaissance, and other frontline missions.

Meta released its first coding agent called Muse Code as the company ramps up its investments in AI models and services to try and take on Anthropic and OpenAI.

Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them

The update also fixes the annoying Google Speaker light ring bug.

"Play an interactive video nasty."

WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward Big Balls Coristine for a government engineering role at the NDS, the White House agency staffed by other DOGE veterans.

Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that's positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex. It offers pay-as- you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Code is the latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs and oversees foundation model development. Wang joined in June of last year as the centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to revamp his ..

Third-party advertising SDKs are to blame.

A one-line command in your macOS terminal can get you access to Meta's Muse Code, which aims to be a transparent AI coding tool that can work across large repositories. Meta's Muse Code is a new AI coding tool for macOS. Image source: Meta There are already coding agents like Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex available for macOS, but Meta wants to enter the ring with its latest AI toolset. Unlike the others, it doesn't have an app interface and runs through the Terminal. According to an ..

Salesforce promoted revenue head and former Oracle executive Miguel Milano to role of operating chief.

A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters free-speech rightsbut the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs encrypted communications.