Southampton kicked out of play-offs: Justice or harsh decision? — Southampton will be playing in the Championship next season after they were expelled from the play-offs following their admission that they spied on three league rivals this season.
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months — Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.
Let’s talk about encrypted reasoning — This is a quick post I wanted to write about a hobby project I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting vulnerability.…
Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone — Look for the “Encrypted” text when talking with your Android friends.
Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone — It’s my new favorite camera
A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore’s law — Researchers led by Qing Cao have demonstrated a scalable way to directly and sequentially stack high-performance silicon circuits. This advance marks a critical step toward realizing the full potentia
Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor — Also, it's a twofer with the GreenPlasma zero-day local privilege escalation.
“Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and — “Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest — and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days.”
Saying goodbye to asm.js — Disabling asm.js optimizations in SpiderMonkey
zkGolf: golf zero-knowledge circuits, verified in Lean — A competition to build the cheapest zero-knowledge circuits, proven correct in Lean 4.
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack — A fake-interview scam tried to backdoor my machine with PinpinRAT, hidden in a malicious TypeScript patch. Analysis of the attack, payload, and indicators of compromise.
When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug — We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers — They should be fixed now. Hopefully.
Safari's latest trick could be automatically organizing your tabs into groups - Engadget — Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Apple could introduce Organize Tabs feature with the next major software update.
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Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights To The US A Reality - BGR — A team of engineers from Japan has completed a successful ground combustion trial of a ramjet engine designed for a Mach‑5 hypersonic aircraft.
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax — Money is another reason to leave Substack.
Google is changing how it judges AI models for Android coding, updates list with Fable 5 — Google is changing how it tests AI models for Android coding following new rankings led by Fable 5. Google released...
Apple Releases HomePod Software 26.5 — Alongside iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, and macOS Tahoe 26.5, Apple has released new HomePod 26.5 software for the HomePod and the HomePod mini. The update comes a little over a month after Apple released HomePod Software 26.4. According to Apple's
'Too early' to talk IPO, Redwood Materials' incoming CFO says | TechCrunch — The battery-recycling and energy-storage company has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja, reuniting him with former Tesla CTO JB Straubel.
Apple's AirTag-Sized AI Pendant: Five Features Rumored So Far — Apple is developing a wearable AI device that's been described as a pin or pendant, and that could compete with a similar AI product coming from OpenAI's Jony Ive. It wasn't clear if the wearable would actually make
What's Under Your Feet in New York City? — A tour of the subsurface in NYC ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering The underground of New York is almost a city within a city. We kind of get used to having…
Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector - — Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector -
732 bytes of Python just borked every Linux machine on earth… — CodeRabbit's new Slack Agent lets you manage your team's agentic workflow right in Slack - https://coderabbit.link/fireship-agent A 100% reliable logic flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel and an AI tool wrote an