When the company selling the shovels starts funding the gold rush, pay attention. Nvidia, which makes the chips behind most modern AI, just put a billion-dollar commitment behind American science, and quantum computing is high on the list. …

Satellite phone service has always had one awkward weakness: the roof. Signals from orbit are great in an open field and not so great in your kitchen. SpaceX has decided the fix is to buy some airwaves that can get through walls. 800 MHz o…

The standard way to keep an AI agent in check is to hire a second AI to read everything the first one does. It works, but it's like paying a security guard to re-read every email your staff sends. Goodfire has a cheaper plan: look inside th…

For years, workplace AI has been a very smart intern who needs everything spelled out. Google Cloud has decided the intern is ready for a promotion: hand it the goal, walk away, and come back to finished work. Whether your org chart is read…

Most modules hope for a five-star rating. Block AJAX just got a 20 out of 25 from the Drupal Security Team, and on that scale a high score means trouble. If your site uses Layout Builder, now is a good time to put the coffee down and check …

Quantum computing has spent years in a state of superposition: simultaneously "right around the corner" and "a decade away," depending on who's pitching. Investors just placed a very large bet on which way that wave function collapses. One …

Letting an AI agent decide its own security permissions is like letting a toddler set their own bedtime: they'll be very confident, and it will go very badly. Microsoft seems to agree. Alongside a pricey new lineup of AI-ready Surface hardw…

Remember when the hottest thing on a website was a mortgage calculator with a little slider? Somewhere, a marketing team spent three sprints on that slider. On October 7, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT can now whip one up on demand, mid-conv…

For the last couple of years, "let's add AI to that workflow" has been followed by a nervous glance at the API bill, like ordering lobster at a restaurant with no prices on the menu. Anthropic just slid a much cheaper menu across the table.…

Somewhere out there, a ProFTPD server from 2015 is still humming along, unpatched, like a forgotten Tamagotchi that somehow never died. Unfortunately, a state-backed hacking crew found it before its owner did. This week's lesson: the scarie…