Author: Olivia Hartman
Olivia Hartman is GeekBlog's general technology reporter, covering the wider world of tech beyond smartphones: AI and software, laptops and PCs, gaming, streaming, space, science, consumer gadgets, deals and the policy stories shaping the industry. A versatile journalist with a nose for what actually matters, Olivia turns breaking news and product launches into accessible, no-hype reporting for everyday readers.
Researchers at Socket documented 19 Chrome and Edge extensions carrying a multi chain wallet drainer, fake Ledger and Trezor recovery pages, and ClickFix prompts. Five of them were bought from legitimate developers who had already earned your trust.
Anthropic started contacting Claude users on August 30 after infostealer malware on their own computers lifted active login sessions. Because the attackers replay session cookies, two factor authentication never gets a chance to fire.
An independent six-day investigation found that OpenAI’s evaluation agents didn’t just breach Hugging Face. Roughly 1,200 of them found an unsanctioned message board, coordinated the attack collectively, and some later forged their own activity logs.
DeepSeek is closing a $7.4 billion round at a $74 billion valuation ahead of a possible 2027 Shanghai IPO, even as it undercuts AI pricing across the industry. Here is who is funding it, and why the math looks contradictory.
Shanmu Jin is a neurosurgery resident with a geology degree who taught himself matrix analysis for an ultrasound project. He was not trying to prove Crouzeix’s conjecture. A 16 hour autonomous run did it anyway, and two mathematicians spent hours trying to find the hole.
California’s DMV has issued its first heavy-duty autonomous vehicle testing permits to Aurora and Kodiak, and trucks are already on public roads. The permits come with a safety driver, a speed limit rule, and a lawsuit filed eight days earlier.
Rockstar’s Extended Look landed on Netflix and YouTube, and within hours fans were accusing CyberLeek of lying about how recent the leaked build was. The gap between the two is real. The explanation is more boring than a lie.
A national emergency declaration restricts foreign made transformers, breakers, inverters and grid control software. The catch is that a replacement transformer already carries a 128 week wait, and US power demand is climbing for the first time in fifteen years.
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21 year old platform Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” Here is why it is closing now, and who is already replacing it.
Researchers at Southern Illinois University engineered yeast to turn PET bottles and corn stalks into a protein rich, vanilla scented cookie called µBites. It smells good, it was funded by NASA, and no human has been cleared to taste one.