Every kitchen has a main character. Historically it's been the fridge, occasionally the coffee machine, and in some households a deeply opinionated toaster. Apple would like that role to go to a $299 aluminum screen perched on a speaker, an…

Patch Tuesday used to be a monthly chore. This October it's more like a season finale whose end credits scroll for twenty minutes. Microsoft just fixed 1,413 vulnerabilities in a single release, which is more than it patched in all of 2025.…

Argon is a noble gas, famously inert, perfectly happy to sit inside a lightbulb and mind its own business. Google's Gemini 4 Argon is billed as the opposite: a model that "works longer and harder" on complicated, multi-step problems. Naming…

A CVSS score of 10.0 is the security world's version of a judge holding up a perfect scorecard, except nobody in the audience is clapping. That's the rating Patchstack and The Hacker News gave a flaw in Bricksforge, a plugin that extends th…

Some bugs arrive with a bang. Others sit quietly in your codebase since roughly the era of sourdough starters and Zoom happy hours, waiting patiently for their moment. Drupal's latest critical advisory is very much the second kind, and its …

Five years ago, Character.AI was the startup that let you chat with a virtual version of almost anyone. Now it's in bankruptcy court, and the opening bid on the table comes from Disney. From a $2.7 Billion Deal to a $20 Million Bid Charact…

In chemistry, argon is the noble gas that famously doesn't react with anything. Google has given that name to a model it hopes will cause a big reaction. It's a bold choice, and this time the benchmarks are doing a lot of the talking. Buil…

Science fiction trained us to expect a rogue AI in a giant underground data center. Anthropic's researchers now say the more realistic setting may be your smart TV, your oven, or that lawnmower with Wi-Fi you never got around to updating. …

In gymnastics, a perfect 10 gets you a gold medal. In vulnerability scoring, it gets you an emergency maintenance window and an inbox full of alarmed Slack messages. GitLab just got the second kind. One Regex Can Take Over the Server GitLa…

Most software vulnerabilities show up unannounced, like a raccoon in the garage. Drupal's Security Team does it differently: it sends a formal heads-up two days early so you can clear your calendar, brew some coffee, and get ready. That hea…