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A growing number of conflicting USB and embedded USB (eUSB) standards is creating compatibility headaches despite their status as formal standards, according to a new analysis from Semiconductor Engineering. “Just because it’s a standard doesn’t mean everything will work together, and this is especially evident with conflicting USB standards,” the report notes, drawing on expert […]

The White House’s official app, mandated for installation on all executive branch government-issued phones, has become a source of frustration for federal workers who report that deleting it does not work, the app comes back. “I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” one government employee told Wired. The White House directed […]

Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added a massive collection of infostealer malware logs to its database this month, comprising 56 million unique email addresses and 124 million unique passwords drawn from hundreds of millions of individual stealer log records. The passwords have been added to Pwned Passwords and are now searchable. The scale […]

Nvidia has announced a warm-water, closed-loop cooling system that eliminates on-site water consumption in AI data centers. The design, unveiled during London Climate Week, uses coolant that enters server racks at 45°C (113°F) and exits at 55°C (131°F), recirculating in a sealed loop that requires no evaporative top-offs. “Pretty much all water usage inside the […]

As Big Tech pours billions of dollars into America’s data center buildout, a growing number of electricians working on these projects are questioning whether the jobs are worth the broader costs to communities and the environment. The scale of data center construction has created a surge of well-paying work for electrical workers. Projects require demanding […]

xAI has introduced `/goal`, a new mode inside its terminal-based coding agent Grok Build that allows developers to set long-running autonomous coding tasks with built-in verification. The feature works by accepting a single-line objective, for example, `/goal Migrate the auth module to the new API`, after which the agent plans an approach, breaks the work […]

Tokyo-based Sakana AI has launched Sakana Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that presents itself as a single foundation model through one OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. Internally, it decides whether to answer a query directly or assemble a team of specialized models from a configurable pool. The system is itself a language model, trained to call other […]

Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple’s A12 and A13 chips. The vulnerability is burned into silicon at manufacture, no software update can reach it. Every affected device carries the flaw for its entire lifespan. The exploit is the most […]

Google DeepMind is investing approximately US$75 million (around £60 million) in independent film studio A24 as part of an AI research partnership announced Monday, marking the search giant’s first direct investment of this kind in a Hollywood studio. The multiyear, non-exclusive deal will give A24 filmmakers access to DeepMind’s AI tools to explore new creative […]

OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity platform with two major releases: an improved GPT-5.5-Cyber model and Patch the Planet, a program co-founded with Trail of Bits and HackerOne that funds security engineers to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software. The company argues that AI has shifted the bottleneck in cybersecurity from finding bugs to fixing […]