Most of us can't even keep the microwave clock right after a power cut. Physicists in Vienna just built a nuclear clock that adjusts itself and kept running for over a day without anyone touching it. Somewhere, a Swiss watchmaker is quietly…

In Greek myth, Hermes was the messenger god: fast, clever, and a bit of a trickster. In 2026, Hermes is an open-source AI agent that has been cloned more than 24 million times, and its makers just raised enough money to buy it a business su…

Right now, an AI agent shopping on your behalf is like a stranger in a trench coat telling the store clerk "I'm here for my friend, trust me." Businesses have no idea who sent it, what it's allowed to do, or whether to let it in. Meta and S…

Some people mark the weeks by Taco Tuesday. Drupal site owners mark them by security advisory day, and this week's lineup was stacked. The Drupal Security Team published 26 contributed-project advisories in one go, and the top of the bill w…

Spooky season came early for open source. A supply-chain campaign called GhostAction is slipping fake "security" workflows into GitHub repositories, which is a bit like a burglar breaking in wearing a hi-vis vest that says "Locksmith." The …

Most startups spend their first year arguing about the logo. Oratomic spent its first seven months or so raising $775 million. In a field famous for "useful any decade now" timelines, investors just placed one of the year's loudest bets tha…

For years, asking a chatbot for help splitting a dinner bill meant getting three tidy paragraphs explaining division. Helpful, sure, in the way a vending machine that dispenses instructions for making a sandwich is helpful. OpenAI's latest …

Most of us need seven minutes just to find the TV remote. According to the attacker's own gloating note, seven minutes is also how long it took to breach a whole region of a major Japanese cloud platform. Whether that number is accurate or …

The classic heist movie needs a crew: the hacker, the inside guy, the getaway driver, the one who says "I'm getting too old for this." According to CrowdStrike, a recent campaign against South Korean financial institutions needed exactly on…

Right now, most AI agents browse the web like a raccoon in a trench coat: technically getting the job done, deeply unconvincing, and one CAPTCHA away from total collapse. They scrape pages, poke at forms, and pretend to be a person clicking…