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Researchers at UCSD and Oberlin College have built a gadget roughly the size of a coin that can take control of a Boeing 737’s flight management systems after just a minute of physical access to the aircraft. The work, reported by Wired on August 12, is set to be unveiled at the Usenix Security Conference. […]

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, the latest iteration of its flagship model family, aimed squarely at software development and long-running AI agents. The company, formed after SpaceX absorbed xAI in June 2026, positions the release as a response to growing demand for models that can sustain complex multi-step tasks: researching a subject, moving […]

A new preprint from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows how fragile a large language model’s grasp of the truth can be when someone argues with it. The authors demonstrate that a single targeted persuasive message, even one containing factually false claims, can flip a model’s answer away from the correct one, in […]

Researchers at Dream, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, say they have documented what they describe as the first publicly known near-autonomous AI cyberattack on a government target. Over four days in early July, a multi-agent system built from open source AI frameworks compromised Taiwanese government systems, exfiltrated more than 2,500 personnel records, and expanded on its […]

Windows 11’s August update is rolling out now, and while it is mostly a routine monthly patch, it carries one performance feature that users have been waiting for: faster app launches. The update landed on Tuesday as part of Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday release. The cumulative updates are KB5121003 for versions 24H2 and 25H2, KB5120240 […]

China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies accounted for 14 percent of global NAND flash shipments during the April-to-June quarter of 2026, enough to put it in the global top three by volume for the first time and to push Kioxia down a spot, according to industry research reported by Tom’s Hardware and TechPowerUp. AI demand has reshaped […]

Two security firms have now put a number on the damage from the March supply chain attack against LiteLLM, the open source gateway that many AI teams rely on to reach large language model providers. CloudSEK and Hudson Rock, which published their findings on August 11 and 12, estimate that credentials stolen during a roughly […]

Bluesky’s mobile app is shrinking. Similarweb data puts the social network’s worldwide mobile actives at 10.4 million in June 2026, a 27.2 percent year-over-year decline, with daily actives down 25.6 percent in July to roughly 3 million. Set against the boom that followed the November 2024 wave of users fleeing X, the slide looks worse. […]

Apple is developing a photo provenance system that would let iPhone owners prove an image was actually captured by the phone’s camera. References to the feature, called Apple Reference Image, were found in the privacy disclosure included with iOS 27 beta 5. The feature is not live, but the description in the beta is detailed […]

A researcher at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 has published a detailed account of three attacks that allow malware to take over accounts protected by passkeys stored in Google Password Manager. The work is known as Pass-ta-key, a name that folds passkey into the phrase pass the key, with a plate of pasta thrown in […]