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Taiwan opposition votes to cut Lai's defense budget despite US urging

Sat, 09 May 2026 18:29:08 +0000

Originally published by Nikkei Asia Technology

Outlays slashed by about 38% days before expected Trump-Xi summit in Beijing

Taiwanese soldiers carry a drone during an annual military exercise in Kaohsiung in January. © Reuters

TAIPEI – Taiwan’s opposition-led legislature on Friday voted to cut President Lai Ching-te’s proposed defense funding by more than a third, a move that drew scrutiny in Washington days before an expected summit between the U.S. and Chinese leaders.

States must change frameworks for cooperation, former Indian adviser says

Sat, 09 May 2026 18:29:06 +0000

Originally published by Nikkei Asia Technology

National security expert Shivshankar Menon sees ’no global order’ at the present time

Shivshankar Menon served as Indian ambassador to China and Israel before becoming the national security adviser from 2010-2014 under the administration of Manmohan Singh. (Photo by Satoshi Iwaki)

NEW DELHI – The closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February has sent shockwaves through Asia. Rising oil prices are threatening the livelihoods of citizens in regions with limited reserves. As the U.S. turns its back on the existing international order, China’s influence in the economic and security spheres is growing.

Indian lawmaker loses millions of Instagram followers after party switch

Sat, 09 May 2026 18:29:04 +0000

Originally published by Nikkei Asia Technology

Social media-savvy politician’s defection could fuel voter cynicism

Indian politicians are increasingly using digital platforms such as Instagram to engage with voters, especially younger, urban audiences. © Reuters

NEW DELHI – A well-known Indian politician who built much of his popularity through social media has lost millions of Instagram followers since switching to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party late last month, potentially dealing the young lawmaker a hefty blow in a nation of increasingly tech-savvy voters.

NATO and Japan weigh shared use of satellite launch sites

Sat, 09 May 2026 18:29:02 +0000

Originally published by Nikkei Asia Technology

Initiative aims to quickly restore satellite networks in case of conflict in space

The Japanese government sees NATO’s Starlift project potentially being a boon to local economies near satellite launch sites. (Source photos by Nikkei and Reuters)

BRUSSELS – NATO is considering the mutual use of satellite launch sites with Japan and other partners, Nikkei has learned, seeking to ensure disabled satellites can be quickly replaced.

Porsche is discontinuing its performance e-bike division

Sat, 09 May 2026 18:12:10 +0000

Originally published by Engadget

EVs and Transportation

Porsche is hitting the brakes on its electric bicycle subsidiary called Porsche eBike Performance GmbH. The German automaker launched itse-bike offshootin August 2022 with plans to develop components like motors and batteries. After nearly four years of operation, Porsche decided to discontinue the subsidiary and will close the company’s factories in Ottobrunn, Germany and Zagreb, Croatia, putting around 350 employees out of work.

Porsche said in a press release that the e-bike division was created to make “high-performance e-bike drive systems and market them worldwide,” but added that market conditions have changed. Porsche eBike Performance created several e-bikes during its short run, including the Porsche eBike Sport for road rides and the Porsche eBike Cross for off-road adventures. TheeBike Sporteven made it to its fifth generation, despite the $10,920 starting price tag.

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:30:39 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Theme Builder is Desktop-only

To fully utilize Zed’s theme builder, access it from the desktop. In the meantime, browse available theme extensions.

Elevated Surface Background

Panel Focused Border

Panel Indent Guide Hover

Panel Indent Guide Active

Panel Overlay Background

Setting up the workbench…

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CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:06:46 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Reading Time: 5 minutes

If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully.

On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware — cPanel quietly released a second emergency security patch. This one covers three new vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203.

Two of the three carry a CVSS score of 8.8. That puts them firmly in theHigh severitytier, one step below Critical.

Banned drones and routers in the US will still get critical updates until 2029

Sat, 09 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Engadget

If you have a foreign-made drone or router that has since been banned by the Federal Communications Commission, you’ll be able to get some more use out if it for the next couple of years. The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) postedan announcementon May 8 that stated affected routers and drones will be able to receive “software and firmware updates that mitigate harm to US consumers,” until January 1, 2029. The latest notice extends the update deadline by about two years from its initial cut-off.

NASA's Curiosity rover gets its drill stuck, recordings from the Arctic seafloor and more science stories

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:30:13 +0000

Originally published by Engadget

What a week. Beloved nature communicator David Attenboroughturned 100on Friday, and scientists named a newly discovered species ofwasp in his honor. The wasp from Chile, calledAttenboroughnculus tau,isn’t the first to be named after Attenborough — it joins a list of over 50 organisms bearing his name in some way, which seems about right. Also this week, NASA shared an update about its Curiosity rover, which encountered some issues during a sampling attempt on Mars, and the agency released a new batch of photos from the Artemis II mission.

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:28:36 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Photo by Ilija Boshkov on Unsplash

Last evening, a short blog post appeared in my feed reader that felt as if it spoke directly to me. It is Chris Morgan’s excellent postI’ve banned query strings.

Chrisis someone whose Internet comments I have been reading for about half a decade now. I first stumbled upon his comments when he left very detailedfeedbackon one of my collections of CSS rules on Hacker News. I am by no means a web developer. I have spent most of myprofessional lifedoing systems programming in C and C++. However, developing websites and writingsmall HTML toolshas been a long-time hobby for me. I have learnt most of my web development skills as a hobbyist by studying what other people do: first by viewing the source of websites I liked in the early 2000s, and later by occasionally getting possessed by the urge to implement a new game or tool and searchingMDN Web Docsto learn whatever I needed to make it work. One problem with learning a skill this way is that you sometimes pick up habits and practices that are fashionable but not necessarily optimal or correct. So it was really valuable to me when Chris commented on my collection of boilerplate CSS rules. It helped me improve my CSS a lot. In fact, a few of the lessons from his comment have really stuck with me; I keep them in mind whenever I make a hobby HTML project: always retain underlines in links andretain purplefor visited links.

Introduction to Beaver Triples

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:02:38 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

Computing with Secret Shares - Introducing Beaver Triples

Mikerah Quintyne-Collins

You and your friends are planning to go out to dinner. Typically, you are the friend in the friend group that pays for everyone else’s meals. But recently, the market isn’t doing to well recently. So, everyone needs to start paying up.

However, not all of the homies are ballin’ because well, the market isn’t doing too well and one of them is still a student. But, just because external forces are kicking everyone’s butt doesn’t prevent the friend group from hanging out and enjoying a nice meal together. In order to have an enjoyable meal together, a restaurant needs to be decided upon. But, not everyone likes the same cuisine and some restaurants are more expensive than others. Considering that everyone’s financial situation and food preferences are different, you attempt to devise a privacy-respecting way to allow the group to come to consensus on which restaurant to go to.

Dyson’s powerful 360 Vis Nav robovac is down to $279.99 for a limited time

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Originally published by The Verge

The last-gen robot vacuum tackled dirty carpets well in our testing, especially compared to the newer Spot + Scrub Ai.

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If you’re tired of running your vacuum multiple times just to get the dirt and debris out of the carpets in your living room,Dyson’s 360 Vis Navis worth a look. It’s one of the more powerful robot vacuums currently available, and now through May 11th (or while supplies last), it’s on sale atWootfor an all-time low of $279.99 ($919 off) with a full two-year warranty.

Intent-based chaos testing is designed for when AI behaves confidently — and wrongly

Sat, 09 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Here is a scenario that should concern every enterprise architect shipping autonomous AI systems right now: An observability agent is running in production. Its job is to detect infrastructure anomalies and trigger the appropriate response. Late one night, it flags an elevated anomaly score across a

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The Instax Wide 400 builds on instant photography’s simplicity and stretches it, literally

Sat, 09 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

In an increasingly AI-driven and digital world, analog instant film and retro-style cameras remain popular, fueled by a combination of both nostalgia and charm. Instant cameras, in particular, stand out for their simplicity and an experience that has remained largely unchanged over time.

Fujifilm’s $175 Instax Wide 400builds on the familiar instant photography experience and expands it with a wider format. As someone who appreciates simple, easy-to-use instant cameras and often shoots with an Instax Square, I was interested in trying a model that offers larger prints and support for landscape photography.

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

Sat, 09 May 2026 15:01:16 +0000

Originally published by Hacker News

During the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” years of home computing, up to around 1995, a lot was thrown and a lot failed to stick. Sometimes clumps would form that appeared to have the combined friction necessary to maintain wall grip, each holding the other up. But, like Mitch Hedberg’s observation of belts and belt loops, it was difficult to discern who was helping who stick to what.

Nvidia has already committed $40B to equity AI deals this year

Sat, 09 May 2026 14:43:30 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026,according to CNBC.

Much of that total comes from a single bet,a $30 billion investment in OpenAI. But CNBC reports that the chipmaker has also announced seven multi-billion dollar investments in publicly traded companies, most recently deals to invest up to $3.2 billion in glassmaker Corning and up to $2.1 billion in data center operator IREN.

Fake OpenAI repository on Hugging Face pushes infostealer malware

Sat, 09 May 2026 14:26:03 +0000

Originally published by BleepingComputer

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform’s trending list impersonated OpenAI’s “Privacy Filter” project to deliver information-stealing malware to Windows users.

The repository briefly reached #1 on Hugging Face and accumulated 244,000 downloads before the platform responded to reports and removed it.

The Hugging Face platform lets developers and researchers share AI models, datasets, and machine learning (ML) tools. Models are pre-trained AI systems hosted on the platform comprising weight files, configuration, and code.

These great digital gifts will arrive just in time for Mother’s Day

Sat, 09 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Originally published by The Verge

If you still haven’t picked up a Mother’s Day gift, we have dozens of last-minute ideas that are a mere click or two away.

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And just like that, Mother’s Day is tomorrow, May 10th, which is too soon for most online purchases to arrive in time. That said, you aren’t alone if you waited too long to pick up a gift this year, and you definitely aren’t alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something your mom can unwrap. But here’s the thing: digital gifts can still unlock memorable experiences, be it movies, games, or music. They can also let your mom choose exactly what she wants, making them both convenient and versatile.

Let it snow

Sat, 09 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Originally published by The Verge

Get warm and cozy before playing this pair of games about trolls, frogs, and the joys and fears of winter.

Water gets all the credit. When gaming companies want to show off new graphics technology, things tend to get wet; splashing waves that are only possible with the latest physics engine, or puddles that can reflect the world around them thanks to ray tracing. But there’s something special about snow. It might not be as technically impressive as water, but when it comes to creating a mood in a game, snow can be very powerful. And two recent releases —Moomintroll: Winter’s WarmthandFroggy Hates Snow— really capture just what snow is capable of.

Mortal Kombat II review: More than just camp

Sat, 09 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Engadget

The creative minds behindMortal Kombat IIknow precisely how to make an awful ’90s-style action movie. We get a glimpse of that with footage from “Uncaged Fury,” an in-film demonstration of Hollywood playboy Johnny Cage’s replete with one-liners, glacially slow choreography and ridiculous stunts, all of which would have felt right at home in a forgettable Van Damme flick. By nodding to schlocky action cinema — which definitely includesMortal Kombat(1995)— director Simon McQuoid and screenwriter Jeremy Slater are also making a statement: They know what not to do. That self-awareness ultimately makes it the best Mortal Kombat film yet.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Sat, 09 May 2026 12:25:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Apple’s old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

The next major release of macOS looks likely to remove Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) support, stopping Time Capsules from working… butlifeFOSS, uh, finds a way.

The current version of macOS “Tahoe” 26.4already has network Time Machine issues, especially for folksusing Apple Time Capsules. It looks like macOS 27 may completely remove the network protocol they need. However, the Time Capsules run NetBSD under the hood, and that means that the FOSS world has been able tocome up with a workaround. It’s calledTimeCapsuleSMB, and it aims to keep older Time Capsules usable with modern macOS.

Quantum dot TVs beat RGB LED TVs, says the company that makes QDs for TVs

Sat, 09 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Originally published by The Verge

A side-by-side comparison of an RGB LED TV and a QD TV showed color crosstalk and contrast issues in the RGB LED TV.

At the Los Angeles Convention Center, two 85-inch TVs sat side by side inside the Nanosys meeting room at Display Week — a yearly business-to-business convention focusing on the technology that goes into displays of all types. One TV was a mini-LED panel with super quantum dots, and the other was an RGB LED — this year’s hottest TV trend. Both TVs were showing the same content at the same time to highlight the differences between the two technologies — or more specifically, to show the potential failings of RGB LED backlights when compared to super quantum dot (SQD), which uses blue LEDs for the backlight.

The game that makes me actually want to exercise

Sat, 09 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Originally published by The Verge

Plus, in this week’s Installer: Two reasons to go to the theater, impressive new speakers, delightful buttons, and much more.

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Hi, friends! Welcome toInstallerNo. 127, your guide to the best andVerge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, my Scorpion challenges your Sub-Zero to a duel, and also you can read all the old editions at theInstallerhomepage.)

Chainsaw carnage, lots of music-based titles and other new indie games worth checking out

Sat, 09 May 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Originally published by Engadget

Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. There are a bunch of interesting new games for you to check out this weekend and we’ve got some news about intriguing upcoming projects to share with you. But first, word of a neat marketing beat from a game we’ve been very much looking forward to around these parts.

Mixtape,from developer Beethoven and Dinosaur and publisher Annapurna Interactive, arrived this week to glowing reviews. It’s a coming-of-age adventure that tells the story of three friends on their last night together. They party, go skateboarding and get up to some mischief — exactly the kinds of things teenagers should be doing.

The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys

Sat, 09 May 2026 11:00:51 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

The main antagonist ofToy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad, a genius new villain for the belovedPixar franchise. But if Pixar had its ear to the ground, it might have used an AI kids’ toy instead.

AI toys are seemingly everywhere, marketed online as friendly companions to children as young as three, and they’re still a largely unregulated category. It’s easier than ever to spin up an AI companion, thanks to model developer programs andvibe coding. In 2026, they’ve become a go-to trend in cheap trinkets, lining the halls of trade shows likeCES,MWC, andHong Kong’s Toys & Games Fair. By October 2025, there were over 1,500 AI toy companiesregisteredin China, and Huawei’sSmart HanHanplush toy sold 10,000 units in China in its first week. Sharp put itsPokeTomo talking AI toyon sale in Japan this April.

Best Live-Captioning Smart Glasses (2026), WIRED tested

Sat, 09 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Wired

People with hearingloss have relied onhearing aidsto communicate more effectively and comfortably. But there’s now a new tech, live-captioning eyeglasses, that could be an additional accessibility tool to treat hearing loss. Instead of amplifying speech, however, these gadgets turn it into subtitles. Even if your hearing is fine, you may still find this type of device to behelpful in everyday life.

Captioning glasses are a distinct subset ofsmart glasses, and they work exactly as the name suggests, displaying real-time subtitles in front of your eyes—transcribing everything you hear (orcan’thear) into text, whether it’s face-to-face chitchat or movie dialog at the cinema. There is a tiny display embedded in each lens, though these are single-color screens designed specifically to display captioned text, invariably in a vibrant shade of green. Don’t expect typical smart-glass features like camera recording or music playback, though there are helpful functions like live translation, navigation, and other information. Fundamentally, captioning glasses are designed to do one thing: turn dialogue into readable text.

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare

Sat, 09 May 2026 10:30:00 +0000

Originally published by Wired

Cramming for finalsis bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday afterCanvas went into “maintenance mode”following a ransomware attack on education tech firm Instructure. Hackers using the nameShinyHuntersclaimed responsibility for the breach, and experts say the chaos they caused shows how far these actors will go to extort their victims.

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

Sat, 09 May 2026 10:03:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End

Visitors to London’s iconic Telecom Tower might soon be able to go for a rooftop swim, according to plans revealed by the developer turning the building into a hotel.

The iconic 177 meter (581 ft) high structure in Fitzrovia in London’s West End was sold off by BT Group in 2024 to US-based hotel owner-operator MCR Hotels for £275 million ($346 million).

The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026

Sat, 09 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Wired

While major motorshows in Europe and the United States are being forced to downsize or change their format, those inChinacontinue to expand.

With 1,451 vehicles on display, including 181 world premieres, the2026 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition 2026(also known as Auto China 2026) has become the largest auto show in history—and that’s in terms of both exhibition space and the number of vehicles on display.

This fact itself reflects ashift in the center of gravityof the automotive industry, but that’s not all. A much larger structural transformation is actually taking place in China today.

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

Sat, 09 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

The UK Home Office wants to talk to suppliers about its plans for two potential procurements for the Strategic Central and Bureau Platform (SCBP), its core biometrics system, worth up to £300 million.

The department said the procurements could cover support, development, and ongoing modernization of SCBP after it shifted much of the platform to “more modern and widely adopted technology stacks.”

Beijing pushes AI data centres to adopt green energy under action plan

Sat, 09 May 2026 08:06:24 +0000

Originally published by South China Morning Post Tech

The document proposes a total of 29 measures to improve the integration of green power and AI

Beijing is moving to make green electricity usage a key metric in the operation of new data centre projects, as part of a major push to align the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence with national carbon goals, according to an action plan released Friday.

cPanel, WHM Release Fixes for Three New Vulnerabilities — Patch Now

Sat, 09 May 2026 07:16:00 +0000

Originally published by The Hacker News

cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation, code execution, and denial-of-service.

The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -

CVE-2026-29201(CVSS score: 4.3) - An insufficient input validation of the feature file name in the “feature::LOADFEATUREFILE” adminbin call that could result in an arbitrary file read.
CVE-2026-29202(CVSS score: 8.8) - An insufficient input validation of the “plugin” parameter in the “create_user API” call that could result in arbitrary Perl code execution on behalf of the already authenticated account’s system user.

China’s Huaqiangbei bets on AI innovations to revive global appeal

Sat, 09 May 2026 07:00:05 +0000

Originally published by South China Morning Post Tech

Shenzhen’s electronics hub is riding the AI boom, with curated devices like drones and robots pulling in overseas customers once more

For first-time visitors like Abigail Slagveer from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the sheer scale of Huaqiangbei’s electronics market is overwhelming.

“I came here one and a half hours ago through that front door,” she said, pointing to an entrance just a few metres away on the first floor of Huaqiang Electronics World, one of the major malls in the district. “I’m still stuck here [in the first few stalls].”

ByteDance raises 2026 capex by at least 25% amid AI boom, rising memory costs, sources say

Sat, 09 May 2026 06:00:10 +0000

Originally published by South China Morning Post Tech

ByteDance is allocating a proportionally larger budget to domestic AI chips to mitigate geopolitical risks and heed Beijing’s call

TikTok owner ByteDance is ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, boosting its planned capital expenditure this year to more than 200 billion yuan (US$30 billion), according to two people familiar with the matter.

HelloFresh Coupon Codes: 55% Off + Free Meals

Sat, 09 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Wired

Leveraging meal kitcoupons is the extreme couponing of our times—a capitalism hack-a-thon right up there with trial yoga classes and attempting to cancel your Adobe subscription.Meal kitslike HelloFresh have always been a better deal than they get credit for, even at full price: It’s actuallyhard to recreate meal kit meals for less than you can get the recipes delivered to your home. But it’s especially worth it when you can find aHelloFresh coupon, promo code, or discount at more than half off.

Instacart Promo Code: $15 Off | May 2026

Sat, 09 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Wired

Like many others,I first used Instacart during the early days of the pandemic when it was a lifesaver. Literally. As the primary caretaker of my immunocompromised grandmother, I was at a loss for how to do something as simple as feed her without risking dangerous exposure. And although I love delivery from a restaurant, it’s expensive and unhealthy. With Instacart, I was able to get her healthy groceries and favorite comfort foods delivered to us right at home without having to risk exposure.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5 with Multimodal Reasoning and Agent Capabilities

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 on Friday, its most capable artificial intelligence model to date, featuring native multimodal reasoning, autonomous agent capabilities, and what the company describes as “near-human” performance on professional-level reasoning benchmarks.

The new model can browse the live web, write and execute code in a sandboxed environment, analyze images and video, and hold coherent multi-turn conversations that span hours without losing context. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it “a step change in what AI can do for people.”

Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:59:19 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny.

Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain it as a nonprofit dedicated to developing AI for the benefit of humanity, only to later accept billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft and restructure the company to operate a for-profit subsidiary.

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:17:31 +0000

Originally published by The Register

Good times, bad times

This week was the best of times for Akamai and the worst of times for Cloudflare.

On the same evening, content delivery network mainstay Cloudflare announced it wascutting about a fifth of its staffin a realignment around AI, its competitor Akamai announced a seven-year, $1.8 billion deal with a leading LLM provider thatBloombergidentified as Anthropic.

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton said this was the largest deal in the company’s history and that it came after another large, unidentified frontier-model developer signed a $200 million deal last quarter.

Manufacturing qubits that can move

Fri, 08 May 2026 23:13:57 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

To get quantum computing to work, we will ultimately need lots of high-quality qubits, which we can tie together into groups of error-corrected logical qubits. Companies are taking distinct approaches to get there, but you can think of them as falling into two broad categories. Some companies are focused on hosting the qubits in electronics that we can manufacture, guaranteeing that we can get lots of devices. Others are using atoms or photons as qubits, which give more consistent behavior but require lots of complicated hardware to manage.

Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:59:05 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

As was widely reported, Oracleaxed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 peoplevia email on March 31.

One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was like, ‘this user doesn’t exist anymore.’ Then I called my friend, and I was like, ‘Hey, can you see me in Slack?’ And she said, ‘No, your account’s been deactivated.’”

San Francisco’s housing market has lost its mind

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:32:31 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

San Francisco real estate has never been very accessible. But the record sales happening right now in the city’s high-end market are testing the upper limits of what even this famously unaffordable city thought was possible.

Consider a six-bedroom, 5,700-square-foot home in Cow Hollow, one of San Francisco’s most coveted neighborhoods. It was listed two weeks ago at $7.95 million, so, not cheap. It just sold for $15 million. The sellers, who bought the property for $7.8 million in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was pushing residents out of cities, nearly doubled their money in under six years.

Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary

Fri, 08 May 2026 22:10:58 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

President Trump has signed off on a plan to fire Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, though insiders caution that the plan is not final and could change, according to several media reports.

News of the planned axing comes from inside sources who spoke withThe Wall Street Journal, which was then confirmed by reporting fromBloomberg,The Washington Post, andPolitico. The Post reported that the administration has not decided who would serve as acting director upon Makary’s departure.

Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:45:20 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Dario Amodeiis not the kind of CEO who talks loosely about numbers. The Anthropic co-founder and chief executive, a former VP of research at OpenAI with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Princeton, has built a reputation for measured public statements — particularly around the financial perfo

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OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:41:21 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can’t handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, state compression, and reconstruction layers into every deployment. OpenAI’s three new voice models are desig

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GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:52 +0000

Originally published by The Register

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

It’s getting more expensive to use the latest models. OpenAI last month bumped the version number of its GPT model family to 5.5, and per-token prices rose too, in some cases doubling compared to its predecessor.

For 1 million tokens, GPT-5.5 is priced at $5 (input), $0.50 (cached input), and $30 (output). Its predecessor GPT-5.4 charges $2.50 (input), $0.25 (cached input), and $15 (output) per 1 million tokens.

ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View

Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:42 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

ABC is fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempt to police broadcast television content, saying in a filing that the Federal Communications Commission is violating the First Amendment.

Led by Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCCaccused ABC’sThe Viewof not complying with the equal-time rule, even though the interview portions of talk shows havehistorically been exemptfrom the rule requiring equal time for opposing political candidates. The FCC alsoopened an unusual reviewof ABC’s broadcast licenses one day after the president and First Lady Melania Trump called on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over a recent joke.

5,000 vibe-coded apps just proved shadow AI is the new S3 bucket crisis

Fri, 08 May 2026 20:57:01 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

Most enterprise security programs were built to protect servers, endpoints, and cloud accounts. None of them was built to find a customer intake form that a product manager vibe coded on Lovable over a weekend, connected to a live Supabase database, and deployed on a public URL indexed by Google. Th

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Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market

Fri, 08 May 2026 20:51:17 +0000

Originally published by Ars Technica

Anyone following the modern game industry knows thateasy-to-use game enginesandthe accelerating shift to digital distributionhave helped enable a massive increase in the quantity of commercial games released each year, bothon console storefrontsandespecially on Steam. Now, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Hideaki Nishino says we should expect the rate of new game releases to accelerate even faster as new AI development tools make it easier for developers big and small to pursue new projects efficiently.

Prime Video follows Netflix and Disney by adding a TikTok-like ‘Clips’ feed in its app

Fri, 08 May 2026 20:50:03 +0000

Originally published by TechCrunch

Amazon is adding a short-form video feed to the Prime Video app called “Clips,” the companyannouncedon Friday.

Rolling out first in the U.S., Clips will include… well, clips of shows on Prime Video that are designed to hook a viewer and get them to give the full show a try. From that clip, users can add a title to their watchlist, share it with a friend, or navigate to rent, buy, or access the title through their subscription.

US nears US$400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations, report says

Fri, 08 May 2026 20:38:00 +0000

Originally published by South China Morning Post Tech

The money will be used to fund Trump’s ‘beautification’ projects in Washington, the report says

US President ⁠Donald Trump’s administration is nearing a US$400 million settlement with TikTok to resolve an ongoing lawsuit over alleged child-privacy violations, ABC News has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The White House declined to comment, referring questions to the Justice Department, ‌which did not immediately comment. TikTok did not respond to a request for comment.

TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms

Fri, 08 May 2026 18:12:00 +0000

Originally published by The Hacker News

Threat hunters have flagged a previously undocumented Brazilian banking trojan dubbedTCLBANKERthat’s capable of targeting 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms.

The activity is being tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the monikerREF3076. The malware family is assessed to be a major update of theMaverick, which is known to leverage a worm called SORVEPOTEL to spread via WhatsApp Web to a victim’s contacts. The Maverick campaign is attributed to a threat cluster that Trend Micro calls Water Saci.

An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.

Fri, 08 May 2026 17:55:03 +0000

Originally published by VentureBeat

A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identity check passed. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtzdisclosed the incident and a second one at his RSAC 2026 ke

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Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:19:40 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

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Eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship have contracted a type of hantavirus, a rare virus transmitted by rats. Three of them have died. As the ship prepares to dock in the Canary Islands, plans are being finalized to let the remaining passengers and crew disembark safely.

NVIDIA confirms GeForce NOW data breach affecting Armenian users

Fri, 08 May 2026 16:18:31 +0000

Originally published by BleepingComputer

NVIDIA has confirmed in a statement for BleepingComputer that GeForce NOW user information has been exposed in a data breach.

The gaming and hardware giant has clarified that the impact is limited to Armenia, and was caused by a compromise of the infrastructure operated by a regional partner.

The company added that its own network was not impacted by the incident.

“Our investigation found no impact on NVIDIA-operated services. The issue is limited to systems run by a third-party GeForce NOW Alliance partner based in Armenia. We are working closely with the partner to support their investigation and resolution. Impacted users will be notified by GFN.am,” the company said.

Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads

Fri, 08 May 2026 15:08:00 +0000

Originally published by The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users into joining a subscription that provided fake data and incurred financial loss.

The 28 apps have collectively racked up more than 7.3 million downloads, with one of them alone accounting for over 3 million downloads, before they were taken down from the official app storefront.The activity, codenamedCallPhantomby Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET, primarily targeted Android users in India and the broader Asia-Pacific region.

Why More Analysts Won’t Solve Your SOC’s Alert Problem

Fri, 08 May 2026 14:02:12 +0000

Originally published by BleepingComputer

By Rich Perkins, Principal Sales Engineer, Prophet Security

Your security spend has roughlydoubled in six years. Your time-to-investigate and respond hasn’t moved. Your CFO is asking why the security headcount keeps growing while the metrics that matter to the business don’t.

The architecture under your SOC is the reason. Not your team. Not your tooling investment. Not your hiring funnel. The operating model your program inherited assumed human-drivenalert triageat the volume the business was producing five years ago, and the business stopped producing alerts at that volume a long time ago.

One Click, Total Shutdown: The "Patient Zero" Webinar on Killing Stealth Breaches

Fri, 08 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000

Originally published by The Hacker News

The hardest part of cybersecurity isn’t the technology, it’s the people.

Every major breach you’ve read about lately usually starts the same way: one employee, one clever email, and one “Patient Zero” infection.

In 2026, hackers are using AI to make these “first clicks” nearly impossible to spot. If a single laptop gets compromised on your watch, do you have a plan to stop it from taking down the whole company?

Trellix source code breach claimed by RansomHouse hackers

Fri, 08 May 2026 13:23:23 +0000

Originally published by BleepingComputer

The attack on the Trellix source code repository disclosed last week has been claimed by the RansomHouse threat group, which leaked a small set of images as proof of the intrusion.

Yesterday, the threat actor published on their data leak site screenshots indicating access to the cybersecurity company’s appliance management system. However, BleepingComputer could not confirm the authenticity of the data.

Trellix is an international cybersecurity firm with global Fortune 100 customers. In 2025, the company had more than 53,000 customers in 185 countries and 3,500 employees.

DeepSeek to soon close first external fundraising in US$50b valuation: sources

Fri, 08 May 2026 13:06:07 +0000

Originally published by South China Morning Post Tech

Backers include AI-focused affiliates under the third phase of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, sources say

Chinese artificial intelligence high-flier DeepSeek is expected to close its first external financing round soon, boosting its valuation to up to US$50 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter, as the country’s marquee state-backed investment vehicle joins in bankrolling what is seen as a national technology champion.

Some Taiwanese drone math ahead of the Xi-Trump visit

Fri, 08 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Originally published by Rest of World

For at least the past two U.S. administrations, cutting China out of the tech supply chain has been a strategic goal in multiple industries. But the drone industry is one that has beenyears in the makingwith limited success, with China accounting forover 80%of the global market.

CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day

Fri, 08 May 2026 12:16:32 +0000

Originally published by BleepingComputer

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks.

Tracked as CVE-2026-6973, this security flaw allows attackers with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code remotely on systems running EPMM 12.8.0.0 and earlier.

In aThursday security advisory, Ivanti told customers they can secure their appliances by installing Ivanti EPMM 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1, and advised them to review accounts with Admin rights and rotate those credentials where necessary.

The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech

Fri, 08 May 2026 12:10:00 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

We’ve entered the era of AI malaise

AI is spreading everywhere, and it is not going away. But what will it do? What effect will it have on our society? Will it make life better, or worse? How will we know? What’s the plan?

Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise

Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Originally published by The Hacker News

A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamedQuasar Linux RAT (QLNX)is targeting developers’ systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling.

“QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentials across the software supply chain,” Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar Zahravi and Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahimsaidin a technical analysis of the malware.

Here’s how technology transformed babymaking

Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Originally published by MIT Technology Review

Technology is changing the way we make babies. The pioneering work of the scientists who invented IVF led to the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978. We’ve come a long, long way since then.

This week, I’ve been working ona pieceabout the cutting edge of IVF technologies and what’s coming next. Think AI and robots and, potentially, gene-edited embryos.

My reporting has also made me think about just how much progress has been made in the last five decades. Clinicians have improved hormonal treatments. Embryologists have devised ways to culture embryos in the lab for longer. IVF clinics today offer multiple genetic tests for embryos.

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

Fri, 08 May 2026 02:58:46 +0000

Originally published by Krebs on Security

Photo by Daniel Romero on Unsplash

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platformCanvasdisrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.

A screenshot shared by a reader showing the extortion message that was shown on the Canvas login page today.

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CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day

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We’ve entered the era of AI malaise

Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise

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