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The decentralized encrypted messaging app Session will continue operating after thousands of users donated to rescue the project from a funding crisis that had threatened to shut it down by July. Session, which routes messages through a network of more than 2,000 nodes to mask IP addresses and eliminate metadata, had warned in April that […]

A new iOS app called HyperTexting aims to make browsing the open web feel as effortless as scrolling through a social media feed, without algorithms, targeted advertising, or platform lock-in. Created by veteran developer Caleb Hailey through his studio Herd Works, HyperTexting is a free app that combines subscribing and publishing into a single experience. […]

An artificial intelligence-driven bug hunting platform has uncovered a 15-year-old vulnerability in the Linux kernel that lets any unprivileged user escalate to root access in seconds, marking another milestone in the accelerating use of AI for vulnerability discovery. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-43499 and named GhostLock, is a use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel’s priority-inheritance futex […]

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, an AI agent embedded directly inside ChatGPT that can execute complex, multi-step tasks across a user’s email, calendar, messaging apps, and code repositories, and stay with a single project for hours, completing it autonomously. The product, powered by OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.6 model series, marks the company’s clearest attempt yet to […]

Quantum technology is seeing some of its most active development in decades, but a comprehensive survey of the field by Semiconductor Engineering finds that meaningful commercial quantum computers remain years, and in some cases decades, away from general-purpose use. The assessment, drawn from interviews with Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) leadership and industry experts, paints […]

A new open-source inference engine called Colibrì has demonstrated the ability to run GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter frontier AI model developed by China’s Zhipu AI, on a consumer PC with only 25 GB of RAM, no GPU required. The project, released on GitHub on July 10 by developer vforno (JustVugg), achieves this by exploiting the Mixture-of-Experts […]

Global data center electricity consumption is on track to grow 26% in 2026, driven almost entirely by the explosive expansion of AI-optimized server infrastructure, and by 2027, AI servers alone will draw more power than every conventional server in the world combined, according to a new forecast from Gartner. The research firm projects that worldwide […]

High-frequency radio, the long-range communication technology that satellites displaced decades ago, is making a comeback, driven by growing vulnerabilities in space-based infrastructure and advances in modern waveforms that address its historical shortcomings. A white paper published by Rohde & Schwarz in partnership with IEEE Spectrum examines the forces behind HF’s strategic resurgence. The technology, which […]

Meta has removed the controversial Muse Image feature on Instagram that allowed any user to generate AI creations using public accounts’ photos without notification or consent, just days after it launched. The feature, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs and released on July 7, let users @-mention public Instagram accounts and incorporate their existing photos into […]

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating eight companies it suspects of acting as front organizations for Chinese drone giant DJI, which has been effectively banned from selling new products in the United States since December 2025 under a national security order. The FCC also announced plans to deauthorize a Chinese testing laboratory it says helped […]