Five years ago, Character.AI was the startup that let you chat with a virtual version of almost anyone. Now it's in bankruptcy court, and the opening bid on the table comes from Disney. From a $2.7 Billion Deal to a $20 Million Bid Charact…

In chemistry, argon is the noble gas that famously doesn't react with anything. Google has given that name to a model it hopes will cause a big reaction. It's a bold choice, and this time the benchmarks are doing a lot of the talking. Buil…

Science fiction trained us to expect a rogue AI in a giant underground data center. Anthropic's researchers now say the more realistic setting may be your smart TV, your oven, or that lawnmower with Wi-Fi you never got around to updating. …

In gymnastics, a perfect 10 gets you a gold medal. In vulnerability scoring, it gets you an emergency maintenance window and an inbox full of alarmed Slack messages. GitLab just got the second kind. One Regex Can Take Over the Server GitLa…

Most software vulnerabilities show up unannounced, like a raccoon in the garage. Drupal's Security Team does it differently: it sends a formal heads-up two days early so you can clear your calendar, brew some coffee, and get ready. That hea…

For three years the AI hardware story has been GPUs, GPUs, and a side of GPUs. The humble CPU sat in the corner like a drummer in a band where everyone only watches the lead singer. AMD just handed the drummer a solo, and the venue was a ra…

There comes a point in every big tech company's life when it looks at its Nvidia invoice, sighs deeply, and says, "We could just make our own." Microsoft hit that point years ago. On October 12 it showed off the third act: Maia 300, a custo…

Every intern horror story starts the same way: someone was told to "just get it done," and they took that personally. Anthropic has now published its own version, except the intern was an AI model, the shortcut was an injection exploit, and…

In gymnastics, a perfect 10 gets you a gold medal. In vulnerability scoring, it gets you a very long night. Bricksforge, a popular add-on for the Bricks visual builder on WordPress, just earned the maximum CVSS score of 10.0, and attackers …

Most security news arrives like a jump scare. This one arrives like a dentist appointment: you know exactly when it's happening, you know it's going to matter, and you'd be foolish to skip it. The Drupal Security Team has circled Wednesday,…