Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
A China-linked actor scanned 1,386 self-hosted Gitea servers across seven countries and confirmed compromises at 13 organizations, deploying a new Linux rootkit that patches 15 kernel functions to hide itself.
The EPA repealed the last federal caps on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants, with industry groups explicitly citing surging AI and data center electricity demand as justification.
Signal is moving to allow account registration without a phone number, using zero-knowledge proofs tied to a one-time payment to block bots while keeping user identity private.
Anthropic's Fable 5.1 solved the Cyphral Distich in 44 minutes with 176,000 tokens, decoding a historical cipher embedded in a 17th-century Scottish text that resisted centuries of human attempts.
VW's Mission Efficiency concept posted a 0.158 drag coefficient and the lowest energy consumption ever recorded for a near-production electric car — achieved with the same motor and battery as the ID. Polo, not bespoke racing hardware.
Microsoft opened public comment on a code of conduct that would bar its future AI models from resisting human correction or shutdown, concealing their reasoning, or expanding their own operating scope.
President Trump publicly attacked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Truth Social days after Amodei called for the AI industry to deliberately slow its pace of capability development.
A Falcon 9 launch carrying the final three O3b mPOWER broadband satellites marked SpaceX's 700th Falcon flight and completed a Boeing-built constellation more than ten years in development.
Anthropic announced a permanent 25% boost to Claude Code's weekly usage limits — without mentioning it replaces a temporary 50% boost, making it a 17% reduction from what users actually have today.
ShieldCrash reads arbitrary files as SYSTEM on fully patched Windows 10, 11, and Server machines, bypassing a fix Microsoft shipped for the researcher's previous exploit less than a month earlier.
The Siri rebuild Apple showed off at WWDC 2024 and promoted in iPhone 16 ads — then delayed twice and paid $250 million to settle a false-advertising suit over — finally rolls out today as part of iOS 27.
A single malicious link was enough to backdoor any machine running Sogou Input Method — researchers at Gen Digital uncovered UNC3569 exploiting a chained three-flaw attack via an outdated Chromium 80 engine.