Almost eight months after confirming a critical security vulnerability within the personal version of its AI assistant, Copilot, Microsoft on Tuesday issued a patch to close the hole, which relies on an LLM’s inability to distinguish the data in a query from an instruction. The CoSnitch hole was discovered byContinue Reading
Diffusion models are becoming sophisticated enough that they can reproduce an image even when they don’t have access to the original. In a series of ‘what if’ scenarios, researchers associated with MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) swapped out different training datasets to test the impact on imageContinue Reading
Nigeria is stepping up efforts to increase electric vehicle (EV) adoption, with nearly 4,000 EVs receiving tax waivers in the first half of 2026, according to a Reuters report. The approvals are part of a government programme supporting cleaner transportation, local assembly and wider EV adoption…Continue Reading
This Buc-ee’s vs. the Beaver’s Mini-Mart is just not going to go away. While Buc-ee’s has made quite the name for itself as a trademark bully over the past several years, it may have finally run into a combination that is more than the corporation can handle. Between John Oliver’sContinue Reading
One thing that always comes up in the GNOME vs KDE debate is how easy it is to customize KDE. You can surely customize GNOME but not to the extent of KDE. But that doesn’t deter us GNOME users from trying new looks and visuals, does it? In that regard,Continue Reading
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A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning them into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes. …Read MoreContinue Reading
The first stage of LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 rocket rests on its landing pad shortly after its historic touchdown on Aug. 18, 2026. (Image credit: LandSpace) China just notched another big spaceflight milestone. The Beijing startup LandSpace successfully landed the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), becoming the first Chinese company ever toContinue Reading
NASA astronaut Anil Menon (sideways, just below the dish) and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot work to remove a failed Space-To-Ground antenna at the Z-1 truss outside of the International Space Station on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (Image credit: NASA) Two astronauts — including the first French woman in history to perform a spacewalk — workedContinue Reading
Google has paid $10 million in a bankruptcy auction for a large amount of data from the defunct Spirit Airlines, Bloomberg Law reports. The purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million messages, data from Microsoft Teams, as well as information on revenue, flight operations, marketing, personnel, and project management. TheContinue Reading
Vibe coding is a top security threat to enterprises and could leak data into the public sphere, analysts and executives are saying. “The number one risk at the minute is hard-coded secrets being uploaded through vibe-coded applications to GitHub, and then providing a route in,” said Pete Shoard, chief ofContinue Reading
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are part of a coalition of 29 states suing the company., California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are part of a coalition of 29 states suing the company., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI on Tuesday introduced a version of ChatGPT designed for teenagers — the first generation to grow up with artificial intelligence — who are already using it for schoolwork, questions about daily life and even companionship. The San Francisco-based company says ChatGPT for Teens is tailoredContinue Reading