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Former NASA Science Chief Thomas Zurbuchen Returns to Zurich to Boost Europe’s Space Ambitions
Thomas Zurbuchen, the Swiss physicist behind NASA’s James Webb telescope and some 130 missions, is back at ETH Zurich ar...
The Border Is Everywhere: Inside the Surveillance Industry's Interior Pivot
At the Phoenix Border Security Expo, falling crossings and denaturalization push vendors from desert cameras to invisibl...
AI Buildout Repeats Three Enron Financial Tactics, but Is Not Doomed to Crash
Santa Clara professor Ram Bala says private credit, mark-to-model demand and circular vendor financing echo Enron legall...
Waymo Reaches Mid-Teens Share of US Ride-Hailing Bookings; Driver Impact Still Unclear
Third-party estimates put Waymo at 15-16% of gross ride-hailing bookings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, but ...
Meta’s AI-Glasses Harassment Cleanup Still Has an Enforcement Gap
Weeks after Adam Mosseri promised Instagram would remove harassing videos filmed with Meta glasses, a new review found d...
AI Cyberattacks Shift Into Live Attack Chains as White House Prepares Classified Review
New Check Point and CrowdStrike research shows attackers using AI inside live operations, while universities face identi...
Microsoft Says Southern Europe's AI Lead Will Be Decided by Skills, Not Models
Microsoft’s Southern Europe VP sees Greece shifting from AI adoption to a regional hub, but the decisive bottleneck is r...
China's AI Rally Puts US Labs on the Defensive as the Race Shifts to Cost
Star 50 outperforms as Moonshot and DeepSeek push cheaper models; OpenAI and Anthropic respond with sharp price cuts, ma...
Nvidia Considers $3 Billion Stake in SoftBank's SB Energy for OpenAI Data Center
Talks point to a split investment at signing and at SB Energy's possible IPO, underscoring how AI data centers are resha...
AI's New Gold Mine Is Trusted Data — and Yelp Is Sitting on a Rich Seam
AI adoption is surging, yet trust in AI-generated answers remains strikingly low. The Yelp–OpenAI licensing deal shows w...
AI Is Rewiring Jobs, Not Just Cutting Them: Hiring Down 24% While AI Engineers Surge 251%
Visier's study of 3.6 million employee records finds hiring fell 24% from 2022-2026, but the real story is role-level ch...
Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
The social giant will release Muse Spark 1.2 weights and a laptop-focused Muse Glimmer family, positioning open-source A...
Apple Alerts Users in 110 Countries to New Mercenary Spyware Attacks
Apple has warned a small set of high-risk users across 110 countries that mercenary spyware may have targeted their devi...
Snowflake Volunteer Turns Android Phones into Tor Proxies for Censored Users
The Tor Project's new Android app lets anyone lend spare bandwidth as a rotating Tor entry point. Hands-on testing shows...
Google Lets Users Hide Visible AI Watermarks, Keeps Invisible Provenance
Optional visible watermarks are coming to Gemini and Flow, but SynthID and C2PA metadata will remain for verification.
Suspected Iranian Hack Wave Hits Water Systems Across a Dozen US States
A coordinated cyber campaign has disrupted water utilities in several states, exposing deep vulnerabilities in fragmente...
Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline
Thrive Capital's first investor letter discloses $60bn in assets and a 41% gross IRR while its founder argues Silicon Va...
New Plaintiff Alleges Grok Turned a Childhood Photo Into Explicit Images
A fourth plaintiff has joined a class action alleging xAI failed to stop Grok from creating sexualized images of real mi...
Marco Arment launches Unforgetful, a $19.99-a-year reminders app for serial snoozers
The Overcast developer's new iOS and Mac app reuses your Apple Reminders database but adds repeating alerts and scaling ...
Vibe Management: How AI Assistants Are Taking Over Routine Managerial Work
A founder argues that delegating metrics, reporting and financial checks to AI agents is becoming the new standard — and...
Unitree's G1 Robot Went Viral as an Influencer. Now It Must Prove It Can Work
Chinese maker Unitree shipped more than 5,500 G1 humanoids last year and turned the robot into a viral influencer star. ...
Russia’s Halal Fintech Push: Digital Sukuk From Dagestan to Dubai
Russian banks are piloting Sharia-compliant digital financial assets—tokenised sukuk, halal accounts and AI screening—wh...
Nasdaq Courts Boards With Cloud-Based Compliance Questionnaire Software
Nasdaq Governance Solutions is pitching digitized conflict-of-interest, code-of-conduct and cybersecurity questionnaires...
Google Edges Past Naver in Korean Mobile Users as AI Search Shifts the Web
For the first time, Google's mobile app outranked Naver by monthly active users in South Korea, while ChatGPT's rise poi...
Cl0p Claims Mass Data Theft From Shell, Philips, GE and Fiserv in PTC Software Exploit
Extortion group Cl0p says it breached nearly 50 companies by exploiting PTC Windchill and FlexPLM vulnerabilities. Named...
OPPO Launches Reno16 Series in UAE With Matcha Event, Up to 7,000mAh Batteries and Bundles
The Reno16, Reno16 Pro and Reno16F are now on sale in the UAE with 50MP selfie cameras, up to 200MP sensors and launch b...
Anthropic Q2 Revenue Jumps 14-Fold to $11.5 Billion Ahead of Planned IPO
Preliminary figures seen by Bloomberg show Anthropic's second-quarter revenue reached more than $11.5 billion, triple it...
Apple Trains a China-Specific AI Model With Alibaba
The iPhone maker is shifting from relying solely on local AI partners to building its own China model, as it races to br...
Honor Robot Phone Puts a 200MP Camera on a Motorized Gimbal Arm
Honor's Robot Phone launches in China with a 200MP camera on a 360-degree motorized gimbal, ARRI color tools and flagshi...
DebtBook Pushes AI Into US Public Finance to Fight Fraud in a $7.9 Trillion Sector
The Charlotte software firm's new Insights layer promises to modernize state and local treasury workflows after fraud lo...