Somewhere out there, a botnet is knocking on 440,000 doors and not even bothering to be polite about it. Two wildly popular WordPress plugins just found out that "upload a file" and "upload literally any file including a PHP web shell" are,…

Every few months a tech company whispers "this one's different" right before shipping something that is, in fact, mostly the same thing but faster. GPT-6 Astra might actually be the exception — or at least OpenAI is betting its entire PR bu…

Somewhere in Mountain View, a marketing exec looked at "guy survives the Arctic for content" and thought: this, but with an AI assistant whispering in his ear the whole time. Google just signed the internet's biggest creator for a multi-yea…

Nothing says "we're back" quite like successfully lobbing a 2,300-kilogram satellite toward geosynchronous orbit on your first try since things went sideways. India's space agency ISRO just did exactly that, and after a rocky start to the y…

Nvidia has spent the last few years selling everyone the shovels in the AI gold rush. Now it's bought the map. On September 3, Nvidia confirmed it's acquiring Hugging Face — the platform practically every developer on Earth uses to find, sh…

In the eternal arms race between hackers and the people trying to stop them, Google just handed defenders a very expensive new weapon — and then locked it in a case marked "trusted partners only." Meet Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, an AI model bu…

Google Chrome has a new personal record, and it's not one you throw a party for: six actively exploited zero-days patched in 2026 alone. The latest, discovered by a researcher who earned a modest $1,000 bug bounty for finding a bug that cou…

Passwords, multi-factor authentication, security questions with answers only you could possibly know, we build all these locks and then, every so often, a company hands out a spare key through a door nobody was watching. That's essentially …

Somewhere in a government warehouse, a Hubble-class mirror sat around for years doing absolutely nothing, because that's apparently just a normal thing that happens when you're the National Reconnaissance Office. NASA finally gave it a job …

Google's release cadence for Gemini has officially entered "are you even trying to keep up" territory. Barely three weeks after the last one, there's a new Flash model in town, and this one apparently showed up to work. Meet Gemini 3.8 Fla…