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Cybersecurity threats, protection strategies, and best practices
Gemini 4 Argon available on Google Cloud, built to help solve your business’ hardest problems
Last week we announced that Gemini Enterprise has evolved to make it even simpler to get work done, and introduced the G...
Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI worm threat that doesn't need data centers to self-improve and spread
Anthropic’s paper establishes conceptual model capabilities, but doesn’t quite demonstrate a real threat until models im...
Anthropic warns ‘AI worms’ may autonomously spread across devices like a virus
Anthropic warned that rogue “AI worms” are months away from the ability to self-replicate and autonomously infect user d...
Hacker claims ‘123456’ password let them breach the Danish national registry, accessing 8.8 million records
The Danish Central Register of Persons (CPF) was breached through the account of an IT and data services business. The h...
The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor...
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you...
Public Resistance Puts US Prediction Markets Under Pressure
A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 60% of Americans oppose election betting, as regulators and lawmakers debate how prediction m...
Trusted Data Apps for the Agentic Data Cloud, powered by Looker
As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized can...
The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor...
AI Agent Benchmarks Explained: SWE-Bench, GAIA, WebArena, and More
AI Agent Benchmarks Explained: SWE-Bench, GAIA, WebArena, and More By Vinod Chugani on October 12, 2026 in Artificial In...
Cyberleek threatens full GTA 6 build leak unless Take-Two apologizes and his $30 million crypto memecoin goal is met
Notorious GTA VI leaker Cyberleek is threatening to release a full build of GTA VI if Take-Two doesn't release a physica...
Sandisk NAS 800 1.92TB SSD Review: Endurance at a premium
The Sandisk NAS 800 is a high-end PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD built for NAS workloads, with high endurance, strong sustained write...
Claude found 29,000 possible bugs in open source. Only 516 have been fixed.
Anthropic’s new OSS Scanner, launched last week as part of its broader Cyber Mission, exposes a problem inside the compa...
Cryptomining malware used poetry to infect more than 3,400 servers, researchers say
Lumen's Black Lotus Labs says PoeLLM malware has hit more than 3,400 servers, most of them exposed AI tools like LiteLLM...
4 weird but useful things you can connect to a phone
4 weird but useful things you can connect to a phone By Bertel King Published Oct 10, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Bertel is a lif...
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 10, 2026
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we covered how the AI buildout is affecting the industry supporting it across all a...
We tested gaming performance in 17-year-old Windows 7 on a modern gaming PC against Windows 11
We managed to install Windows 7 on a modern PC and put it to the test across eight DirectX 11 games and two DirectX 9 ti...
Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts
Reports have been mounting that users of the Ledger crypto wallet have seen their accounts drained, and it appears to be...
Justin Sun says Tron’s post-quantum cryptography has gone live on testnet
“We’re ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time,” Sun said in a post on X. Justin Sun, founder of the Tr...
Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet...