The good news: those 15 JetBrains Marketplace plugins worked exactly as advertised. The bad news: they also worked as advertised for someone else — specifically, whoever runs a command-and-control server at a sketchy Chinese IP address. 15…

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to Frontier — the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of more than a quintillion floating-point operations per second. It is, by any rational measure, an absolute unit of a machine. Scientists at Oak…

If you have recently installed an AI coding assistant plugin from the JetBrains Marketplace, there is an uncomfortable question worth sitting with: did you actually vet that thing, or did you click Install because the reviews looked decent …

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that rattled the global chip market in early 2025 by releasing a model as capable as GPT-4 at a fraction of the training cost, has done it again — this time in the funding arena. The lab just closed its first-ev…

Nothing says good morning like finding out that 144 packages in a popular npm namespace were silently modified to steal cryptocurrency — and it all unfolded in an 88-minute window while most of the developer world was still getting coffee. …

There is disrupting an industry, and then there is SpaceX. After launching rockets, building Starlink, and going public in a record-shattering $75 billion IPO earlier this month, Elon Musk's aerospace giant apparently looked around and thou…

The productivity gains are real. The record profits are real. The thousand people who lost their tech jobs today are also real. Analysis tracked by TechStartups shows tech companies are laying off approximately 1,000 workers per day in 202…

Every second Tuesday of the month, system administrators across the world develop a nervous tic. This June, that tic upgraded to a full-blown stress response. Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday is officially the largest in the program's 2…

Supply chain attacks used to be the kind of thing that happened to other companies, in other ecosystems. Then Miasma showed up and made it very personal for Red Hat — and anyone who runs npm install. On May 29, 2026, attackers compromised …

Jensen Huang has never walked onto a stage without a leather jacket or a superlative. At Computex 2026, he brought both — plus a chip that might actually deserve the hype. NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark Superchip: a 70-billion-transistor, T…