Somewhere in Beijing, someone at Zhipu AI looked at Cursor's pricing page, looked at Claude Code's pricing page, and said "what if we just... didn't charge that much." Enter ZCode, a free desktop coding agent that showed up this month with …

Microsoft looked at a remote code execution hole in SharePoint back in May, shrugged, and told customers exploitation was "less likely." Six weeks later, CISA slapped it on the federal must-patch-immediately list. Reader, it was not less li…

Nothing says "we're still friends" like accusing your ex-partner's chief hardware officer of telling job candidates to smuggle "actual parts" out of the building for a "show and tell." Apple and OpenAI spent 2024 as the tech world's golden …

Somewhere, a developer set up a self-hosted Git server, felt very in-control of their infrastructure, and never checked the default config. That's the setup for a joke, except the punchline is "attackers can become your admin by typing one …

Most machines start showing their age after a handful of uses. Booster B1067 just wrapped its 36th trip to space and back, and it's showing all the wear of a rental car that's somehow still got that new-car smell. Flight 36, Landing 160, N…

Meta just launched a shiny new AI image tool, and true to form, it also launched a mini controversy to go with it — free of charge, no download required. Turns out "your face, used by an AI, unless you specifically say otherwise" is not a p…

Somewhere in the Linux kernel, a bug has been quietly aging like a fine wine since 2011 — back when Rebecca Black's "Friday" was topping charts and everyone thought Google+ might catch on. Turns out that bug just grew up into a five-second …

Two of the most self-regarding AI labs on Earth released their flagship models on the exact same Thursday, and somehow it was Elon Musk who blinked first and started swinging. Nothing captures the current state of the AI arms race quite lik…

Nothing tests a fanbase's love quite like watching your favorite toy get moved behind the counter. Anthropic's newest model, Fable 5, had a brief taste of subscription-included freedom — and then the bill collector showed up. From Included…

For years, scientists suspected Earth's tiny quasi-moon was a chip off the old lunar block — a piece of the Moon that got knocked loose eons ago and now just awkwardly orbits nearby, like a kid who never really left home. China's Tianwen-2 …