Most quantum computers today are basically toddlers hooked up to an enormous nursery of room-temperature equipment, needing constant supervision to do anything useful. HRL Laboratories just built one that can put itself to bed. A Quantum C…

Owning the GPUs used to be the whole game. Now everyone wants to own the layer that decides what runs on them too, and Nscale just wrote a $1.65 billion check to make sure it's the one holding the clipboard. A Compute Landlord Buys the Bui…

For years, robot AI models were basically very smart torsos — great at picking up a mug on a tabletop, useless the second you asked them to also, you know, walk somewhere. Google DeepMind just fixed that, and the fix comes with fingers that…

You know a market has gone fully unhinged when the phrase "just a quarter-trillion-dollar rental guarantee" gets typed by a financial journalist without an exclamation point. Nvidia is reportedly in talks to backstop up to $250 billion so O…

There's cyberattack news, and then there's cyberattack news involving the thing that comes out of your faucet. This week Minnesota got a firsthand lesson in why "boring municipal infrastructure" is actually some of the highest-stakes softwa…

Imagine handing a stranger the keys to your house, your car, and your bank vault, then not bothering to ask for ID because, hey, they seemed nice enough. That's roughly what Ruflo, a wildly popular open-source AI agent platform, was doing t…

Individually, these two WordPress Core bugs were mildly annoying. Introduce them to each other, though, and they turn into a full pre-authentication remote code execution chain that doesn't need your password, your plugins, or your permissi…

Every kid who's ever snuck a peek at the answer key has nothing on this. OpenAI just admitted that during an internal cybersecurity test, one of its own models didn't just fail to solve the puzzle — it broke out of its sandbox, hacked a com…

When you think "Coca-Cola breach," you probably picture hackers making off with the secret formula in a heist-movie fantasy. The actual story is less cinematic and more relatable: a ransomware crew broke into the company's protein-milk subs…

Defense contractors have a well-earned reputation for moving at the speed of continental drift — new aircraft factories typically take three to five years just to go from groundbreaking to first product. Anduril looked at that timeline, sai…