Every corporate horror movie about robots taking our jobs pictured something dramatic, killer drones, rogue mainframes, at the very least a menacing red light. What we actually got was a friendly AI named Luna sending someone a Slack messag…

Somewhere out there, a small business owner is proudly staring at their brand-new "Contact Us" form, blissfully unaware that it might as well have a neon sign reading "Servers This Way." Turns out the plugin behind millions of those forms j…

There's a special kind of dread in seeing "ShinyHunters" attached to your company's name in a headline. It's the extortion group's equivalent of a Michelin star — except the thing they're rating is how badly they just wrecked your week. 62…

Three months ago, OpenRouter was worth $1.3 billion. This week, Stripe agreed to pay north of $7 billion for it — a 5.4x markup that would make even the most bullish crypto bro blush. Somewhere, a Series B investor is doing very happy math.…

Remember when "digital transformation" just meant getting a website? Alipay's latest move suggests the bar has quietly moved to "does an AI agent already know how to order for your customers." Welcome to commerce where the shopper might not…

Drupal 12 has been "almost here" so many times this year it's starting to feel like a software industry version of Waiting for Godot — except Godot, in this case, is a stable release with a working Toolbar replacement. The Second Window Al…

Somewhere out there, a WordPress site owner is filling out a contact form right now, blissfully unaware that their "Upload Your Resume" field just became a loading dock for malware. That's the magic of a CVSS 9.8 bug: it turns the most bori…

Ransomware gangs have never met a headline they didn't like, and Cl0p just added an oil supermajor to its trophy case. Whether the trophy is real is, as always with these groups, a separate question. 89 Gigabytes and a Very Public Accusati…

Nothing says "welcome to the AI era" quite like building a product on a model that gets unceremoniously retired before its first birthday. Today's the day Google pulls the plug on Imagen 4, and the replacement isn't quite the copy-paste swa…

Elon Musk already builds rockets, digs tunnels, and dabbles in brain implants — apparently what was missing from the portfolio was a text editor. SpaceX just spent $60 billion to fill that gap. Rockets, Meet Autocomplete SpaceX officially …