Software people have long joked that hardware is hard. OpenAI just tested that joke by having its newest model design a physical device from scratch, and the result is a decent prototype plus a reminder that atoms are still less forgiving t…

Every sci-fi movie about runaway machines eventually reaches the scene where someone sprints down a corridor looking for the big red button. CrowdStrike would like your company's AI agents to skip that scene. On Tuesday it shipped an actual…

For decades, Linux admins have typed sudo apt install with the calm of someone who knows every package is cryptographically signed and checked. That calm took a hit on November 4, when Debian, Ubuntu and APT's own developers published advis…

Every newsroom and marketing team has the same nightmare: the embargoed announcement goes live at 9 p.m. instead of 9 a.m. tomorrow. Drupal's Scheduler module exists to prevent exactly that, which makes this week's security advisory feel a …

Updating your website is supposed to be the responsible, eat-your-vegetables part of running it. This week we learned that, for a few seconds during a WordPress core update, the vegetables could run arbitrary PHP. CISA has now confirmed tha…

When your AI ambitions outrun your cash flow, you do what everyone does and borrow. Meta just does it in amounts most companies would be happy to call their market cap. Twenty to Twenty-Five Billion, Two Currencies Meta sought between $20 …

For most of the AI boom, AMD has been the talented sibling everyone introduces as "the alternative." Tuesday's earnings suggest it's tired of the label, and its biggest customers seem happy to help it shed it. Beat, Raise, and a Very Long …

For years, asking Siri to do anything inside a third-party app felt like asking a hotel concierge to fix your car: polite, well meaning, not much help. Apple now says any app can plug straight into its rebuilt assistant, and it's giving dev…

Most WordPress security headlines are about plugins, that sprawling ecosystem where somebody's abandoned slider from 2017 lives forever. This one is different. The bug CISA just flagged sits in WordPress core, and specifically in the update…

Every online store dreams of customers who check out without hesitating. Fewer dream of customers who check out without paying. A newly patched hole in Drupal Commerce gave some merchants the second kind, and the Drupal Security Team is not…