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More from AI & SoftwareAttackers poisoned Trivy, a security scanner, to steal LiteLLM’s publishing keys. The malicious packages were live for 40 minutes. Five months later, a 153GB archive of harvested credentials from Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft and thousands more has surfaced.
Stockholm’s Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, double what it was worth in December. The revenue growth behind it is real. The harder question is what happens to everyone selling software when describing an app is enough to build one.
A flaw in Zoom’s annotation feature let any meeting participant run code on another participant’s device with no clicks and no warning. The researchers who found it needed fewer than 20 AI prompts and less than a day.
An anonymous Wikipedia edit falsely declared Sam Altman dead. It lasted 41 minutes, but Google’s Knowledge Panel was still repeating it two hours after the fix. Here is how a hoax got laundered into a search result.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 chases GPT-5.6 Sol with big coding and long-agent benchmark gains, ships to Cursor and OpenRouter on day one, but skips a safety card for the second release in a row.
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404 Media hid an Apple AirTag inside a bulk order of roughly 1,000 secondhand books and followed the shipment across four states. It stopped at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, at a unit whose job is to cut the spines off books, scan the loose pages for AI training, and throw the originals away.
Starting August 24, YouTube counts a public view from the very first frame across long form video, Shorts and live streams. Public numbers will climb, the old definition survives as engaged views in Analytics, and creator payouts are not affected. Here is what actually changes and what it breaks.
Flock says it operates more than 120,000 license plate cameras across 49 states. Crowdsourced maps have verified tens of thousands of them, down to the pole. The result is a country where you can now look up what is watching your commute, and a growing list of councils cancelling their contracts.
A demo video for unreleased camera-equipped AirPods shipped inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, complete with a Visual Intelligence walkthrough and a warning screen about hair covering the lens. The codename is B790, and the timeline just moved up by a year.
Google removes every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, and Edge began the same rollout this month. Here is what breaks, why the Manifest V3 replacement is weaker, and which browsers still run uBlock Origin at full power.
Forty feet beneath Launch Complex 39 sits a domed concrete bunker on springs, built to survive a fully fueled Saturn V exploding overhead. You reached it by jumping into a 200-foot slide. It was never used, and SpaceX is legally required to keep it.