Remember when a Patch Tuesday with a hundred fixes felt like a big month? Those were simpler times. Microsoft's October update didn't just break the record — it patched more than 1,400 vulnerabilities, which is less a software update and mo…

Somewhere, a twelve-year-old who beat the Ender Dragon over a long weekend is feeling very smug right now. Four of Google's most advanced AI agents needed 27 hours, thousands of programs, and a truly heroic number of respawns to do the same…

Nobody reads terms of service. Tech companies know this, lawyers know this, and the little "I agree" checkbox definitely knows this. Which is exactly why a single clause in Meta's updated commercial terms has media lawyers reaching for the …

Every good prison-break movie needs a warden who swears the place is escape-proof. Perplexity just played that role in public, handed the blueprints to everyone, and invited nine of the smartest inmates on the planet to give it their best s…

Some security advisories are a gentle nudge. Others arrive with a pre-announcement, a scheduled release window, and a risk score of 19 out of 25 — the infosec equivalent of your smoke detector clearing its throat before it starts screaming.…

Quantum computing companies have spent years promising to break today's encryption someday. IonQ apparently decided it would rather also sell you the locks. It's a bit like a locksmith who moonlights as an escape artist — confusing at first…

Silicon Valley loves a good spy thriller — usually as a pitch for a streaming series, not as an actual federal case. But this week, the AI industry got a plot twist straight out of a Le Carré novel, complete with a gadget tucked behind a co…

Every AI lab wants a model that clocks in when you clock out. Google's newest pitch is basically "leave the hard engineering ticket with us overnight, and we'll have something for you with your morning coffee." Tempting. But as any manager …

Remember when the scariest thing about ransomware was a badly spelled ransom note? Those days are gone. The crooks have found the same productivity tools as everyone else, and they're shipping faster than your sprint team. 1,200 Security P…

Some security bugs are flashy zero-days with logos and theme songs. This one has been quietly sitting in a table-rendering callback since roughly 2020, waiting for someone to notice it could run code it really, really shouldn't. Drupal's Se…