Quantum encryption has spent years being the physics equivalent of a garage band — technically brilliant, wildly impressive at parties, but never quite ready to headline a real venue. This week it got signed to a label. Or, well, it got ins…

New York has officially looked at the AI industry's insatiable appetite for electricity and said, in the immortal words of every landlord ever: rent's due, and also please stop flooding the basement. It's the first state in the country to j…

Tuesdays used to just mean tacos and mild dread about the rest of the week. This Tuesday, Microsoft turned it into a full-blown cardio workout for every sysadmin on Earth, dropping the single largest patch bundle in Windows history. Bring s…

Quantum computers have a dirty little secret: for all the talk of qubits and superposition, the thing actually strangling progress is boring old wiring. Cram in a million qubits and you need a million control lines, which turns your quantum…

Apple spent two years and presumably several very expensive law firms arguing it shouldn't be called a "gatekeeper" under the EU's Digital Markets Act. The EU General Court's answer, delivered in full, was essentially: nice try. …

Ransomware used to require a human being hunched over a keyboard at 3 a.m., manually poking around a network. JadePuffer skipped the human entirely. It's the first documented ransomware operation run start-to-finish by an autonomous AI agen…

Elon Musk bought a coding startup for $60 billion and, in a move nobody could have possibly predicted, immediately shipped a model. Grok 4.5 is here, it's trained specifically for coding and agents, and it wants a permanent spot in your IDE…

OpenAI just launched three new models named after celestial bodies, which feels appropriate given the company is currently trying to convince the U.S. government to become a literal stakeholder in its orbit. Sol, Terra, and Luna have entere…

Picture a 760-metric-ton rocket booster falling out of the sky, and instead of legs gently touching down like Elon Musk taught the world to expect, it gets scooped up by a net strung across a boat, like humanity's most expensive game of cat…

OpenAI has the household name, the viral app, and the breathless headlines. Anthropic, meanwhile, has just quietly out-earned it — no ChatGPT-sized fanfare required, just a lot of enterprise invoices getting paid on time. The Number That A…