Ransomware gangs have always needed people — operators to case the network, grind through failed logins, and pull the trigger on the encryption. JadePuffer skipped the personnel department entirely and let an AI agent run the whole he…

Somewhere in Beijing, a startup you've probably never heard of just dropped an AI model so big it made semiconductor traders on three continents spill their coffee. Moonshot AI didn't just ship an update — it shipped a shockwave, and …

The European Space Agency just plugged a quantum computer into a server rack in Italy the way you'd install a new NAS drive — no dilution refrigerator, no cryogenics team on standby, just 1.6 kilowatts and a very ambitious to-do list involv…

Somewhere in a Beijing office, a whiteboard just got a number so large it needs its own zip code: 2.8 trillion parameters. Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 isn't just big for a Tuesday — it's the largest open-weight AI model anyone has shipped, an…

Somewhere between "npm install" and "it works on my machine," seven very convincing package names slipped into the Vite ecosystem carrying a remote access trojan with a command-and-control system so elaborate it makes most heist movies look…

Context windows have officially entered their "who can remember the most" arms race, and Google just showed up with an elephant. Gemini 3.5 Pro is now generally available, and it can hold two million tokens in its head at once — enough to s…

Two years ago, Apple and OpenAI were doing a very public victory lap together, ChatGPT baked right into Siri like a couple who'd just moved in together. Now Apple's lawyers are in federal court accusing OpenAI of raiding the medicine cabine…

Apple announced Apple Intelligence back in 2024. In China, it has spent the two years since then stuck in regulatory purgatory — the tech equivalent of waiting for a table at a restaurant that keeps saying "just five more minutes." Th…

Patch Tuesday is the one monthly ritual where "personal best" is bad news. This month Microsoft didn't just clear the bar, it pole-vaulted over it wearing a cape. 570 Flaws, Three of Them Already Loose Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday f…

Elon Musk's rocket company just IPO'd, and instead of buying, say, a bigger rocket, it went out and bought an AI coding tool for more money than most countries' GDP. Priorities. The Biggest Startup Buyout Ever, Paid in Rocket Stock SpaceX …