Universities spend a fortune teaching students about risk management. This summer, a hacking crew handed more than a hundred of them a brutal surprise pop quiz on the subject — and an uncomfortable number of them failed it badly. The syllab…

For decades, every TV detective has barked enhance! at a grainy security still and watched a license plate magically snap into focus. We all laughed, because that is simply not how pixels work. Adobe just spent real money to turn that ridic…

Most software ships with release notes. OpenAI's newest model shipped with something closer to a hall pass from the U.S. government — the kind of permission slip you used to need just to leave class early. Turns out the smartest kid in scho…

A firewall has exactly one job: stand at the door and keep the bad guys out. So there's a special kind of irony when the firewall itself becomes the bad guy's favorite eavesdropping device. Meet FortiBleed, the breach that turned the bounce…

Space is already the ultimate hostile environment — no GPS repair shop on the Moon, no Wi-Fi past geostationary orbit. So naturally, someone looked at it and thought: you know what this needs? Quantum mechanics, the one branch of physics th…

There's a new plot twist in the AI saga, and it's not a model getting smarter — it's the government asking one to slow its roll. Turns out "move fast and break things" hits different when the thing you might break is critical infrastructure…

Remember when "AI" lived comfortably in a data center the size of a small town? The industry has decided that's adorable, and it now wants intelligence baked into your doorbell, your car, and possibly your toaster. Onsemi just spent $7 bill…

Every AI lab eventually hits the same midlife crisis: it stops wanting to rent its compute and starts wanting to build the engine itself. OpenAI just bought the metaphorical garage, the welding torch, and a very spicy nameplate. Say hello t…

Every student knows the move: glance over a smarter classmate's shoulder, copy the answers, and hope the teacher doesn't notice the suspiciously identical wrong answers. Anthropic now says one of the biggest names in tech tried exactly that…

Elon Musk's rocket company builds spaceships, sure. But the real money this week isn't going up — it's humming away in a data center in Memphis, where SpaceX has become the most in-demand landlord in AI. Turns out the path to the stars runs…