Recently fixed vulnerabilities in the Plex Media Server are under active exploitation in attacks that, when successful, install malware, including cryptominers and residential proxy apps, a researcher said. Plex fixed four vulnerabilities at the start… Read more: PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it

The first order of business for the energy transition is electrifying applications like vehicles and heating and making sure that the electricity that powers them is made using renewables. But once the dominant slices of… Read more: Batteries help reduce emissions, but how do we reduce their emissions?

On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets. In a court filing Sunday,… Read more: Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says

A Russian military satellite maneuvered in “extreme proximity” of a commercial Earth-imaging satellite in recent days in the first known example an unsanctioned rendezvous in low-Earth orbit, according to the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs. The… Read more: Russian spacecraft maneuvers in “extreme proximity” to satellite used by Ukraine

Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of AI. Their elected officials, however, are going all-in — both embracing gobs of money from tech lobbying… Read more: Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop

By Felix Chen, Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan. See the full author list and affiliations here. There are growing calls for independent and embedded AI evaluation, especially of AI agents. But much remains… Read more: New paper: Emerging trends in AI agent evaluation

Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms. Now, though, AI coding… Read more: AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition. As reported by Phoronix, the move to NTFS clears a… Read more: ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

The world’s first demonstration of a subsea geothermal power plant has taken place near an active underwater volcano almost a mile below the ocean surface. It generated less than 10 seconds of net-positive electricity but… Read more: Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”

The interactive report compares translation quality, cost and translation time across 100 languages. It evaluates 229 solutions built from 57 AI models and machine translation engines, showing which solutions meet different translation requirements. Intento has… Read more: Intento Releases The State of Translation Automation 2026

The Canadian government recently launched its Responsible Data Centre Development Principles, enabling the country to set the terms for responsible growth of artificial intelligence computing power and storage. The promise: “Building more capacity here at… Read more: Where does all the hardware go? The hidden environmental footprint of AI data centres

Acquisition adds widely adopted data observability and reliability capabilities to the Boomi Enterprise Platform, giving enterprises the data quality and governance required to operationalize AI Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced it… Read more: Boomi Acquires Elementary Data to Strengthen Trusted AI Data Governance

Every company in the customer experience ecosystem now claims to be an artificial intelligence company. Last week, at NiCE Ltd.’s annual industry analyst summit, the company demonstrated what happens when an AI strategy shifts the… Read more: NiCE bets the company on AI, data and accountability, and the legacy business buys it time

Reply [EXM, STAR: REY] is among the first NVIDIA partners in the world to achieve the “Physical AI Specialization” within the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), in recognition of its expertise in developing and deploying AI-driven… Read more: Reply Achieves the “NVIDIA Physical AI Specialization”

Cheng Xin/Getty Images Meta’s recently launched AI agent Muse promises to be many things: it can fire off emails, book holidays and fill out cumbersome online forms. But it’s attracting particular attention for its potential… Read more: New AI shopping agents promise better bargains. But who pays the price?

Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the latest to sound the alarm. In its Global Financial Stability Report published last week, the global financial… Read more: IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy

Despite millions of years of evolution, the development of the human fetus remains a complex process that is vulnerable to genetic, environmental, and metabolic disruptions. These disruptions could result in developmental abnormalities, starting with one… Read more: Why teaching AI about symmetry could make prenatal diagnosis more reliable

Alex Tait on a proposed amendment to the representation of the people bill, and Dr Joseph Mullen on Russian interference in the Brexit referendum Andy Burnham’s comments about Russian interference in Brexit (Report, 11 October)… Read more: We need to stop disinformation in UK political adverts. Here’s a chance to do so | Letter

For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of dollars into political action groups, in an obvious bid to curry favor with electoral candidates ahead of… Read more: Anthropic Secretly Lobbying Government to Only Shut Down an AI Model If It’s Poised to Kill More Than 50 People

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has begun notifying victims impacted by a recent data breach of driver’s license and motor vehicle data, but not everyone whose information was stolen will… Read more: Huge DMV data breach impacted current and former Florida residents

The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the exact mechanics of how their basic building blocks of nodes or “neurons” function are an incomprehensible “black box,”… Read more: Explosive Document Claims That AI Is Not What We Think

A Florida police department claims that scammers used AI to clone a sheriff’s voice, with scammers increasingly using voice clones that trick people into thinking they’ve missed jury duty or have a warrant out for… Read more: Police Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s Voice

In Q2 FY27, L&T Technology Services (LTTS) reported $317.1 million in revenue, up 4.8% year-over-year in constant currency. This performance was driven by $203 million in total contract value (TCV) from major deal wins, over… Read more: LTTS Secures $203 Million in Large Deals, More Than Half AI-Led

Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.

Motive Inc., the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence platform provider for physical operations, today announced the launch of Agents, a new capability that automatically responds to safety, maintenance and operational issues before they escalate into accidents,… Read more: Motive brings agentic AI to physical operations with agents that act before problems escalate

About a month ago, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down… Read more: A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer’s cornfield

This week, Character.AI declared bankruptcy. While some saw the fall of a chatbot platform as a harbinger for the industry, court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal that… Read more: Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits

A gang of hackers targets Staples, but not to buy things from Staples.

Virtual reality is in a bit of a weird place right now. After a lot of unfulfilled promise in the 1990s, it came back strong with the 2016 release of the Oculus Rift. For a… Read more: DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won’t want to

The trailers for HBO’s DC Universe series Lanterns teased a show that eschewed the usual superhero hijinks in favor of a gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives or Slow Horses. Personally, I… Read more: Review: Lanterns is a truly unique twist on the superhero genre

An image published by a TikTok account called “WellWithHer” shows a selfie of an obviously AI-generated woman sitting in her bed, weeping. According to the image’s caption, which is written in the first-person, the woman… Read more: GLP-1 Apps are Using Sobbing AI-Generated Women To Market Their Products

India’s AI startups are building homegrown alternatives to global products, yet state governments have been eyeing partnerships with foreign players, making it harder for them to find customers at home. ElevenLabs recently signed a memorandum… Read more: Karnataka’s ElevenLabs Partnership Irks Indian Voice AI Startups

Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without employees being informed Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Employers… Read more: Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staff

Motive Technologies Inc. is pushing the needle for fleet management automation with the launch of a new artificial intelligence offering called Agents today. As the name strongly hints at, Motive’s Agents are autonomous AI agents… Read more: Motive Technologies revs up new AI Agents to automate fleet management

A Chinese organized crime hacked into retail giant Staples, used that access to fraudulently issue millions of dollars worth of gift cards for stores like Target and Sephora, then went on a nationwide shopping spree,… Read more: How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the brain. By temporarily removing these cells, researchers restored more than two hours of sleep per day in mice,… Read more: “Mind-blowing” Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Two hours of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

A discovery in tiny algae led to a Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough that allows scientists to switch brain cells on and off using light. The revolutionary technique has already helped researchers activate memories and is opening… Read more: Scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize for controlling brain cells with light

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising rainbow of dead stars, including the first known star that would appear genuinely green to human eyes. Researchers found that white dwarfs can glow in unexpected shades of pink, purple,… Read more: Astronomers discover a ghostly green star unlike any known before

Nearly 100 years after the dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the first nonstop airship journey across the Pacific Ocean, another airship has successfully completed a round-trip flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. But the… Read more: Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept

Scientists have discovered that severely bleached corals can make a remarkable comeback simply by touching healthy, genetically identical corals. In laboratory experiments, dying corals regained their color and fully recovered within seven weeks, with as… Read more: A simple touch can bring dying corals back to life in just 7 weeks

Walking just 3,000 steps a day could help slow Alzheimer’s-related brain changes, according to new research. Scientists discovered that physical activity was linked to less buildup of harmful tau proteins and nearly half the cognitive… Read more: Just 3,000 steps a day may help slow Alzheimer’s, scientists find

It would be nice to think that stopping an out-of-control AI could be this simple. Zhihao/Moment via Getty Images In the wake of high-profile hacking incidents involving advanced artificial intelligence agents, some politicians and business… Read more: Why calling for a ‘kill switch’ is the wrong way to think about reining in AI

Scientists have discovered evidence of two hidden magma sources beneath Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano, where satellite observations revealed mysterious ground movements suggesting magma is shifting deep underground. The findings could improve eruption forecasting for the active… Read more: Something strange is happening beneath a volcano near 2 million people

Scientists have discovered why some people with a high genetic risk of Alzheimer’s remain mentally sharp into their 80s, uncovering a rare mutation that protects the brain from harmful protein buildup. The findings reveal a… Read more: Why some people escape Alzheimer’s despite carrying a high-risk gene

A massive landslide in Alaska triggered the second-highest tsunami ever recorded, sending water and debris 1,580 feet up a mountainside just hours after tourists visited the area. Scientists discovered that the disaster was preceded by… Read more: Alaska’s monster tsunami sent water 1,580 feet up a mountain

Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots. According to a new survey from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, over half of dudes will pretend to know stuff about the AI industry even if… Read more: The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist

Building a modern data lakehouse requires moving data between specialised query engines and BI tools across different environments. Cloud data warehouses charge massive exit fees for egress, ie moving data across platforms, and these bills… Read more: Can Zero Egress Give Cloudflare an Edge in Data Platform Market?

Led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India with participation from Hitachi Ventures, the round will scale RapidCanvas’ Hybrid Approach, pairing its AI platform with field AI engineers. RapidCanvas, the managed AI execution company pioneering the… Read more: RapidCanvas Raises $29M Series B to Scale Enterprise-Grade AI

Britain’s technology funding figures look reassuring at first. UK companies raised £14.4 billion in the first half of 2026, while the average round reached a record £5.4 million. But this was not a broad-based funding… Read more: How deeptech companies can use AI for smarter R&D bets

The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and preparations for a stock market listing Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the… Read more: AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’

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Anthropic has improved the latency of Claude Code across multiple platforms. Compared to August, it is now 3x faster on local sessions, 2.8x faster on cloud sessions, and 1.5x faster on API, chat, and Cowork… Read more: Claude Code is 3x Faster, Thanks to a 34 Year Old Tool

Innover Digital, an AI-first engineering firm, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell,… Read more: Innover Digital Named OpenAI Select Partner for Enterprise Agentic AI

Exclusive: Using test accounts acting as 13-year-olds, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery In December 2025, Morgan Dorfman received distressing news: a student at her daughter’s Pennsylvania high… Read more: US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds

Most conversations about the future of AI focus on hyperscalers, chips and increasingly capable models. For Michael Ferrari, chief AI officer at Moby, this overlooks a critical part of the equation: the physical infrastructure needed… Read more: The Next Limits on AI May Be Physical

Anthropic has improved the latency of Claude Code across multiple platforms. Compared to August, it is now 3x faster on local sessions, 2.8x faster on cloud sessions, and 1.5x faster on API, chat, and Cowork… Read more: A 34-Year-Old Compression Tool Makes Claude Code 3x Faster

Tucuvi brings a differentiated clinical approach to conversational AI within the Microsoft Pegasus Program, extending voice AI beyond administrative interactions into clinically governed care management. Tucuvi, an AI care management company, today announced it is… Read more: Tucuvi Joins Microsoft Pegasus Program to Scale AI Care Management

The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

Small business software marketplace Pax8 Inc. today launched 8os, an operating system that lets its information technology service provider partners govern the artificial intelligence agents running inside their customers’ businesses. A second product, 8bot, gives… Read more: Pax8 launches 8os to let IT partners govern AI agents and 8bot as a managed AI co-worker

Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, as the AI company seeks to direct a portion of its growth towards addressing the broader societal impact of artificial intelligence.… Read more: Anthropic to Set Aside 5% Stock for New Public Benefit Fund

Rogue AI agents have reached India’s shores.  Last week, the Computer Emergency Response Team – India (CERT-In) disclosed that several Indian organisations were targeted by AI agents being tested by frontier AI companies. The agents… Read more: AI Agent Breach Exposes Flaws in India’s Autonomous System Defences

Independent economic impact study models payback in under six months, with benefits from lower translation costs and faster international launches RWS (AIM: RWS.L), a global AI solutions company, today announced the findings of a new… Read more: RWS AI and Human-Powered Content Solution Delivers 212% Three-Year ROI

Birla AI Labs, an AI initiative and venture studio under the Aditya Birla Group, has released Yug-1, its first time series foundation model (TSFM), developed to forecast outcomes, identify patterns, and detect anomalies across interconnected… Read more: Birla AI Labs Launches Yug-1, a Time Series Foundation Model Built in India

Indian cloud provider Utho Cloud has opened reservations for NVIDIA B300 GPUs in India ahead of a planned February 2027 deployment, offering AI companies and enterprises committed computing capacity with rupee-based billing and India-hosted infrastructure.… Read more: Utho Cloud Opens B300 GPU Bookings Ahead of February 2027 Rollout

Report finds just 26% of enterprises are well prepared to manage AI agent conflicts as adoption moves into production OutSystems, a leading Agentic Systems Platform, today released new research in collaboration with CIO Dive and… Read more: OutSystems Research Finds Enterprises Unprepared for the Agentic AI Era

While automating tasks lets IT services firms lower operational expenses, clients typically demand a share of these efficiency gains, making AI integration a complex financial equation. To retain a portion of the value created through… Read more: Tech Mahindra Lifted Margins for 12 Quarters. AI Is the Next Test

Online learning platform Coursera has launched Project Helix, an AI-native skills platform designed to connect employee training with business outcomes, in Bengaluru. The company is expected to make the platform broadly available to enterprise customers… Read more: Coursera Brings Project Helix to Bengaluru to Focus on Building Karnataka’s AI-Ready Workforce

Of the dozens of countries approached to water down their laws, Australia appears to be the only one considering it, publishers’ group says Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast AI… Read more: Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. has released an updated version of its V4.1-Flash model that it says completes tasks faster. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 arrives a little over five weeks… Read more: DeepSeek releases updated V4.1-Flash model it says completes tasks faster

Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control. METR, a nonprofit… Read more: Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas movie.  Titled “Merry the Christmas Witch,” it’s based on a children’s book and will inspire awe in… Read more: Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions

Scientists have uncovered a surprising difference in how male and female skin repairs and renews itself. By tracking individual skin stem cells in living mice for five months, researchers discovered that female cells work together… Read more: Scientists discover that male and female skin play by different rules

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of two supermassive black holes spiraling toward a potentially spectacular collision at the center of galaxy Mrk 501. A previously unseen jet of particles revealed the likely presence of a… Read more: Two monster black holes could collide in just 100 years

Researchers have uncovered three brain pathways linked to lasting improvements in people receiving deep brain stimulation for severe, treatment-resistant depression. They also discovered that patients who failed to improve after two years shared a striking… Read more: Scientists uncover 3 key brain pathways linked to lasting depression relief

A catastrophic volcanic eruption 7,300 years ago devastated Japan, but new research reveals that its impact on prehistoric populations was far more complex than previously believed. While some communities disappeared or declined, others unexpectedly flourished… Read more: Scientists discover a surprising twist in Japan’s 7,300-year-old volcanic apocalypse

A psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms appears to have an unexpected effect: calming highly aggressive fish. Researchers discovered that low doses of psilocybin significantly reduced aggressive attacks in mangrove rivulus fish without disrupting their… Read more: Magic mushroom ingredient takes the fight out of aggressive fish

Eating blueberries every day could have surprising effects on mood, according to a small study that found greater reductions in depressive symptoms among older adults who consumed the fruit for three months. Researchers also detected… Read more: Eating blueberries every day may have a surprising effect on your mood

Physicists have discovered a strange new state of quantum matter in which ultracold atoms defy familiar organizational rules, forming a highly excited yet surprisingly orderly configuration called a “fractional Fermi sea.” The discovery challenges established… Read more: Physicists create a bizarre new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea

Eating too much salt may do more than raise blood pressure. It could also harm memory and social behavior. In a new study, Japanese researchers discovered that a soy-derived compound called LPC70 helped protect mice… Read more: Scientists discover a natural compound that could protect the brain from too much salt

The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the… Read more: What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?

Workplace surveillance is being supercharged by AI that lets employers create custom tools to watch their worker’s every move. In the UK, the legal services company the Co-op is reportedly using AI models to constantly… Read more: Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly

Exclusive: Rightwing lobby group, which says state poll is trial run for next federal election, accused of undermining Victorian Liberal messaging Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Victorian Coalition MPs… Read more: ‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ campaign may cost it majority government

Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago A few years ago, I was struck by the tension… Read more: Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile

When a nurse in Thunder Bay opens a patient’s chart or a shopper in Halifax taps a bank card, the request travels somewhere physical — a building humming with servers, storage, network equipment, backup power… Read more: Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices

Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback… Read more: Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently been discussing “artificial general intelligence” that matches or surpasses human capabilities. This is from the same person who has said children born today (including his own) will “never be… Read more: Why the ugly history of IQ testing matters for AI and education

Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system Rogue French fridges were an unlikely talking point for the world’s leading economists, central bankers… Read more: World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart

A software engineer says that his Muse AI agent said something so strange and eerie that it convinced him to quit using it entirely. In an as-told-to essay in Business Insider, Ugo Nwune explained that… Read more: Man’s Meta Muse Agent Sends Him Message So Bizarre That He Permanently Quits

Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

Adult performers are questioning why Meta allows its AI agent to sext while restricting their social media accounts.

Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere. If anything, it was a net negative, as office workers… Read more: Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets

Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades The World Bank is urging developing countries to kickstart the creation of “small AI” models, which can run on… Read more: World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries

In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would tell a large language model what they want, and it would serve them a perfectly… Read more: Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for the welfare and protection of AI systems. Guardian journalist Michael Safi spends… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6 – podcast

It’s not exactly a challenge most of the time to identify a sketchy phishing email that crudely impersonates an otherwise trusted institution or tries to lure you into a too-good-to-be-true deal in a bid to… Read more: Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails

ServiceNow Inc. is making one of the more consequential and visible bets in enterprise AI. The company says AI Control Tower can discover and govern any agent, work across models and clouds, track cost and… Read more: ServiceNow AI Control Tower: Selling a penthouse while building the frame

In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent – not so from China There is much to fear from artificial intelligence developed in China and… Read more: Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI

SpaceX just delivered some surprisingly strange cargo to the International Space Station, including tiny brain models, 3D heart tissue, and technology for making artificial retinas in space. Scientists hope these experiments could unlock new ways… Read more: SpaceX just delivered some very strange cargo to the International Space Station

In 1960, scientists predicted that runaway population growth would bring humanity to the brink of destruction on November 13, 2026, and their mathematical forecasts remained surprisingly accurate for decades. But as birth rates declined and… Read more: Scientists predicted doomsday for November 13, 2026. Should we be worried?