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…

Every math teacher's favorite line is "show your work." This week OpenAI answered with a GitHub repo holding hundreds of manuscripts, and the math world collectively replied: "Great. Now show us the model." A Semester's Worth of Proofs in …

Remember when the hottest laptop spec was "it has a DVD burner"? Now Microsoft and NVIDIA are selling laptops built for AI agents that keep working in the background while you're off doing something else. Clippy could never. RTX Spark Leav…

Some companies name their flagship AI models after constellations, Greek gods, or vaguely aspirational nouns. Mistral named theirs after an internet meme about fat cats. And honestly? When your model has a trillion parameters, "Le Chonk" mi…

Composer is the quiet kitchen porter of the PHP world. Nobody thanks it, everybody depends on it, and every Drupal site you've ever loved was assembled by it. So when Composer turns out to have a soft spot in how it handles packages, it's w…

Most website admins treat the form submissions inbox like a junk drawer: open it, skim it, close it. This week, attackers found a way to make that one bored click the most expensive thing you'll do all month. It turns out the scariest thing…