Ransomware used to require a human being hunched over a keyboard at 3 a.m., manually poking around a network. JadePuffer skipped the human entirely. It's the first documented ransomware operation run start-to-finish by an autonomous AI agen…

Elon Musk bought a coding startup for $60 billion and, in a move nobody could have possibly predicted, immediately shipped a model. Grok 4.5 is here, it's trained specifically for coding and agents, and it wants a permanent spot in your IDE…

OpenAI just launched three new models named after celestial bodies, which feels appropriate given the company is currently trying to convince the U.S. government to become a literal stakeholder in its orbit. Sol, Terra, and Luna have entere…

Picture a 760-metric-ton rocket booster falling out of the sky, and instead of legs gently touching down like Elon Musk taught the world to expect, it gets scooped up by a net strung across a boat, like humanity's most expensive game of cat…

OpenAI has the household name, the viral app, and the breathless headlines. Anthropic, meanwhile, has just quietly out-earned it — no ChatGPT-sized fanfare required, just a lot of enterprise invoices getting paid on time. The Number That A…

Somewhere in Beijing, someone at Zhipu AI looked at Cursor's pricing page, looked at Claude Code's pricing page, and said "what if we just... didn't charge that much." Enter ZCode, a free desktop coding agent that showed up this month with …

Microsoft looked at a remote code execution hole in SharePoint back in May, shrugged, and told customers exploitation was "less likely." Six weeks later, CISA slapped it on the federal must-patch-immediately list. Reader, it was not less li…

Nothing says "we're still friends" like accusing your ex-partner's chief hardware officer of telling job candidates to smuggle "actual parts" out of the building for a "show and tell." Apple and OpenAI spent 2024 as the tech world's golden …

Somewhere, a developer set up a self-hosted Git server, felt very in-control of their infrastructure, and never checked the default config. That's the setup for a joke, except the punchline is "attackers can become your admin by typing one …

Most machines start showing their age after a handful of uses. Booster B1067 just wrapped its 36th trip to space and back, and it's showing all the wear of a rental car that's somehow still got that new-car smell. Flight 36, Landing 160, N…