Hubble spent three decades being the best camera humanity ever pointed at the sky. As of yesterday morning, it has competition, and the new kid brought a 100x wider lens. A Falcon Heavy, a Telescope, and a Million-Mile Commute NASA's Nancy…

All it took was two phone calls. Not a zero-day, not a nation-state exploit chain, not a single line of malware — just someone convincing enough on the phone, and a healthcare distribution giant's data is now allegedly for sale. A Phone Ca…

There's expensive, and then there's "largest state consumer protection settlement outside of Big Tobacco" expensive. Meta just found out which category it lives in. 29 States, One Very Big Check Meta agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion to s…

Turns out you can't just call a company a national security threat because it hurt your feelings. Who knew? A federal judge, apparently, and she wasn't shy about saying so. A Label Built on "Slim" Evidence U.S. District Judge Rita Lin rule…

Nothing says "welcome to your Monday" like discovering your self-hosted Git server has been quietly moonlighting as a cryptocurrency miner for a stranger on the internet. That's exactly what happened to at least one Gitea admin this month, …

Somewhere out there, a perfectly innocent AVIF image was quietly weaponized. Not by a hacker in a hoodie typing furiously in a dark room — just by existing, uploaded to a Next.js site that hadn't patched yet. That's the kind of week Next.js…

Every pair of smart glasses with a camera has the same tell: a little LED that lights up to warn bystanders "hey, this thing is recording you." Turns out that warning system had a loophole so obvious a toddler could've found it — start reco…

Jensen Huang has publicly said Perplexity is his favorite chatbot, which is a bit like the world's biggest arms dealer casually mentioning they really enjoy one particular customer's product. Now that fandom might come with a check attached…

Nothing says "we lost the argument" quite like getting overruled by a federal judge for using national security as a punishment paddle. That's essentially what just happened to the Pentagon, which tried to blacklist one of the country's lea…

Remember the pre-USB-C era, when every gadget needed its own proprietary charger and your junk drawer looked like a cable museum? AI agents have been living through their own version of that mess — every vendor's agents speaking a slightly …