'It's been relentless' say IT workers on frontline of PHP cyber-security scramble
IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours to update their systems.
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Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites
Ukraine has changed drones and war-fighting tech to reduce reliance on Starlink.
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Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
Friday the 13th prequel series based on Jason’s mom drags at first, then hits a vein.
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Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
"We believe Canada should be able to reach orbit on its own terms."
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Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?
An old idea springs anew as a chorus of influential voices predicts that AI may trigger crises of vast magnitudeIn a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously observed that a crisis can propel once-fringe ideas into the political mainstream.“Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around,” he wrote. The job of intellectuals, thinktanks and economists, he argued, is to refine the quality of these ambient ideas, so that good ones are ready when disaster strikes. Continue reading...
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The Indian workers filming their work to train AI
Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI.
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Can AI really predict cancer survival better than a doctor? I have my doubts | Devi Sridhar
Take a selfie to see how healthy you are: the idea is enticing and this new research is promising. But so many factors have been ignoredThe idea that a single selfie could predict how long someone with cancer may live sounds like an incredible breakthrough. AI is getting better at spotting patterns in medical data, but can it be used to reliably predict what will happen to an individual patient? I asked a clinical colleague what she thought about the recent headlines. She found it an interesting development given that doctors have long used facial appearance to assess patient health. For example, she noted that they may write “appears stated age” or “appears older than stated age” as a proxy for general health.Now, researchers from Mass General Brigham, a healthcare institution in Massa...
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Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
Markers released top-line results today after previously reporting the trial succeeded.
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Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
"We need to keep our eyes on numerous required fuelings for the lander."
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Sharp drops for AI stocks overwhelm markets worldwide as oil prices jump
Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showingThe latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran.The S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its worst day since July, while the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.6%. The weakness for tech stocks was so overwhelming that it masked strength for the rest of the US market, in which the majority of stocks actually rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 11 points, or less than 0.1%. Continue reading...
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Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"
Comcast plans job cuts and more AI agents for its shrinking cable customer base.
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Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4
Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.
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Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we're all missing
We can't have nice things, but at least we can get trailers for them.
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Meet the 2026 winner of Nikon's Small World photomicrography contest
Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper.
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"Disillusioned" MAHA leader quits as Trump admin's food agenda spoils: Report
The departure comes amid turmoil in Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Electric or gas? BMW goes both ways with new 2027 X5 and iX5.
460 kW charging and 450 miles of range are among the reasons the EV is the one to get.
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Samsung all but confirms iPhone Duo is goosing Galaxy Z8 sales
Searches for Samsung foldables just happened to skyrocket following iPhone Duo unveiling.
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US official: Russia's stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon
The Russian official who called commercial satellites "legitimate targets" now says concerns are "unfounded."
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Anthropic rolls out Claude Duet, but enterprises aren’t ready
The generative AI vendor released the app with stringent security guardrails for using it in professional and small business settings.
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Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found
Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered.
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The race to fix huge PHP flaw at the heart of the internet - The Latest
Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made to attack websites since the issue with the programming language was revealed, cybersecurity companies have said. Michael Safi speaks to global technology reporter Aisha Down Continue reading...
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Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement
Meta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg has ever seen.
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PHP: Pretty Huge Problem with the internet - The Latest
Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made to attack websites since the issue with the programming language was revealed, cybersecurity companies have said. Michael Safi speaks to global technology reporter Aisha Down – watch on YouTube Continue reading...
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US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry
The decried trial was canceled last week before police seized vaccine doses.
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Meta strikes deal to stop Mark Zuckerberg leaving California over billionaire tax
The Meta boss had said he would exit the state over a wealth tax that has not yet come into force.
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OpenAI, Google partnership targets enterprise model choice
OpenAI now has its models on all three major cloud provider platforms, as it refines its enterprise strategy.
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Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability
Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.
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Sauron recruits his future Ringwraiths in Rings of Power S3 trailer
"I will take my place as the conqueror, a sorcerer, a king."
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Prepare for more website shutdowns in the age of AI – but human inaction is the real culprit | Chris Stokel-Walker
I’ve been banging the drum about these vulnerabilities for years. It will take more than a handful of exhausted developers to keep us safeParts of the internet are going dark. In the Netherlands, government websites, including its digital ID login service, have become unavailable. Finland has taken public services offline, and Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has switched off some of its systems too.This sounds like the results of a cyber-attack. In most instances, however, the people running the sites deliberately switched them off because the alternative – keeping them online – was too risky. The future is here, and suddenly much of our digital infrastructure is looking very fragile.Chris Stokel-Walker is the author of TikTok Boom: The Inside Story of the World’s Favourit...
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Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy
General Motors' plans will require quite a lot of customers' trust.
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Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything
Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.
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How tech became the villain of the US midterms
Datacenters, AI and distaste for the billionaires developing it has soured Americans on big techThe campaign ad begins with a clear, idyllic stream that suddenly turns sludge-brown as two concrete datacenters slam onto its banks. Another facility thuds down on a peaceful suburban park, and two more crush-green pastures as an ominous soundtrack to a disaster movie blares overtop.“They’re coming for our rivers. Our neighborhoods. Our farmland,” a deep-voiced narrator says. “Because Brent Taylor wrote the law allowing datacenters to take over Tennessee.” Continue reading...
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333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.
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‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest pushBehind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...
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UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer
Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal.
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Zoe Kleinman: PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb
It has been a dramatic, public and global response, but the cyber event hasn't happened yet.
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'500 new vulnerabilities' found in government, says AI minister
'500 new vulnerabilities' found in government, says AI minister
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Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as bank’s bosses hail AI productivity advances
Equating to the loss of 5% of its 93,000 global staff, job cuts come as bank announces jump in quarterly profitsBusiness live – latest updatesBarclays is cutting 5,000 jobs as part of wider cost-cutting plans that its bosses say are being driven by advances in AI.The job cuts will mean losing about 5% of the bank’s 93,000 global staff, with executives confirming they had already cut 1,000 workers since the start of the year. Continue reading...
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AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened
Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style oppositionAI companies have told ministers they have 12 months to head off public opposition to datacentres in the UK or risk US-style protests that could threaten their construction.Successive dry summers and rising energy bills are increasing public scrutiny of plans for the huge computer warehouses that are used to train and run AI models, says a submission to the Labour government from a group including the AI infrastructure companies Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco. Continue reading...
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UK working to identify exposure after global cyber-security warning
Governments and companies are scrambling to protect their websites, as Amazon says it experienced attacks before the warning was made public.
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‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun
The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief?In the wings of the London film festival, a group of young influencers are discussing their personal highlights. Klara and the Sun, says one, and her colleagues agree. It’s not just that the film is still so fresh in their memory, or that they have gathered today to meet its creators and stars. Klara is funny and moving; it’s their festival favourite so far. I relay this exchange to Taika Waititi, the film’s director, who is sipping bottled water in a room down the hall. His gaze widens. He almost chokes. “Thank God!” he exclaims with just a bit too much heat.Everybody has a perfe...
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What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber security scramble?
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
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Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
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Trump's green card curbs test Indian tech workers' American dream
With immigration curbs and tech firms cutting foreign hiring, US residency is becoming a distant dream for many Indians.
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Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla?
Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the firms in what would be the biggest merger in history.
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Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure
Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.
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FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about
Ex-FCC chairs say Brendan Carr aims to scare broadcasters into self-censorship.
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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.
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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.
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The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
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RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades
Next Mass Effect project canceled as parent company lays off 400.
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OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
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Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump
Musk and Trump both denied ordering Starlink slowdown. WSJ reports it was Musk.
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Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
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Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.
OS operators throwing out that data is "unlikely," research author tells Ars.
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SpaceX to attempt Starship catch on next flight, with eye on rapid cadence increase
"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."
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In the age of AI, learning maths is even more vital | Letters
Readers react to Simon Jenkins’ article that said it’s more important for children to learn how to speak fluently than study mathematics Simon Jenkins must have had a deeply unpleasant experience of learning maths at school because he seems to have a pathological antipathy towards it (We are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak fluently?, 16 October). I have no qualms with his insistence on the importance of oracy. But his argument breaks down with the claim that it is either oracy or maths, but not both. This is nonsense. Oracy and maths skills should exist side by side. Both contribute to a person’s ability to realise their full potential, and to employment opportunities.Maths drives the understanding of the natural world and contributes vast...
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This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good
Recursive makes the case that the benefits of using AI to build AI outweigh the risks.
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The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
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Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics.
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New prize launches for books co-written with AI
After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMsA prize for AI-written books has launched this week.The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Continue reading...
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AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
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How payroll giant ADP practices AI governance and human oversight
The governance approach focuses on key principles of transparency, explainability, risk management, privacy and security.
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A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
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DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs
With the move, the Chinese AI vendor is looking to gain an advantage in the open source market, while addressing enterprise concerns about steep token rates.
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Review: Carrie is a triumphant remix with one major flaw
Mike Flanagan's re-imagining of Stephen King's classic is well worth watching.
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The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026
Flipping through the highlights in and around Pinball Expo 2026.
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The hidden network powering AI: Why fiber is the new bottleneck
AI gets the headlines. Fiber does the heavy lifting.
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Smartsheet takes a people approach with AI adoption
Inside the workplace collaboration and project management platform vendor’s AI strategy.
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Why AI agents need workflows
Prompt rules couldn’t stop a phone agent from confirming messages it never sent. Emre Benian makes the case for letting the model propose and a workflow act, backed by test results from moving dates, identity checks, and receipts into code.
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Microsoft could hold an advantage with Copilot for Legal
While the vendor is not the first in the AI for legal market, the Microsoft environment is entrenched in many law firms.
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Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting bug had Saudi support, claims prosecutors
Abdulrahman Alfozan, who is accused of planting a recording device, has been denied bail.
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How Boston is becoming a physical AI hub
Robotics talent, customers and investment are concentrating in Boston, and what that means for the U.S. physical AI industry.
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Robot company bets touch, sound can give bots an edge over vision AI
Neura’s latest foundation model combines vision, touch and audio to improve robotic perception, but training it on enough real-world data could prove difficult.
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US bans China's DeepSeek from government in race for AI dominance
The Chinese technology is removed from most US government agencies as race for AI dominance steps up.
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How deeptech companies can use AI for smarter R&D bets
Raising a big round is the easy part. A deeptech founder explains how project-level budgets, evidence-based milestones, and AI-assisted analysis help every pound of R&D capital buy down real risk.
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Open source and on device: the strategy behind Nvidia’s new AI models
The new Nemotron 3.5 models show how the AI giant is focusing on reinforcing its own GPU infrastructure while supporting the open source community.
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System One models: why fast AI agents act wrong
System One models promise fast, calibrated agent decisions. A wave of recent papers shows where they slip, and the cheap fixes that work...
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From prompt to performance: The five stages of agentic merchandising
Agentic commerce is no longer just a shopper-side story. The same AI that guides your customers is now reaching into the back office, where merchandisers still configure rules, analyze performance, and replicate campaigns across storefronts by hand.
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Your first robot hire is coming. 6 questions to ask before it arrives
A robot hire needs a safety case and an insurer long before it needs a badge. Six questions turn a vendor demo into a decision you can defend.
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The 8 problems AI leaders face right now, and the fix for each.
Eight problems keep landing on AI leaders' desks, and each has a fix backed by fresh data. Start with the two that cost you most this quarter.
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After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions, action-evaluation criteria,
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Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning?The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while compute-intensive and engineering-first efforts that scale to ever larger training sets
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to these scores? If we envision a future
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
IntroductionImagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so far been
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Financial Market Applications of LLMs
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer products like ChatGPT are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that excel at modeling sequences of tokens that represent words or parts of words [2]. Amazingly, structural
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A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
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Mamba Explained
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
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Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
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