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Elementor WordPress flaw lets attackers create admin accounts
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts. [...]
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
Phones don’t have lights
Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two re…
The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.
CISA warns of Sharepoint, WSO2, Adobe Commerce flaws exploited in attacks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-5430) affecting multiple pro…
Apple's HomePod mini 2 will reportedly come in new colors, but feature a similar design
It's been six years since the original model.
These camera apps give you more control over the iPhone 18 Pro’s aperture
One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in m…
Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough
Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have …
Peter Thiel says the pope’s AI encyclical was ‘working for’ China
Peter Thiel has called Pope Leo XIV a “useful idiot” for the Chinese Communist Party over the pope’s call to regulate AI. The PayPal and Palantir co-founder spoke to Axel Springer…
Tesla’s Optimus robot is going through growing pains
Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last …
Keychron Thunderbolt 5 Dock review: Unusually sensible
A company that's best known for keyboards makes a strong entry into the high-end dock world.
Pentagon seeks $30.3m for an AI lie detector that reads the body from afar
The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the D…
Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible
Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI ch…
Nscale closed a $3.36B pre-IPO round led by Third Point, with $1B from Nvidia still to come
Nscale has closed a $3.36B pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, with Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council among the investors, three weeks af…
US appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic
A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic’s Claude models.…
Leaks reveal a new Apple HomePod mini, iPad mini, and Apple TV 4K
Apple is expected to announce more hardware before the end of the year following the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone Duo earlier this month. The updated products wil…
Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations
Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exac…
Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports
Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The In…
Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off
Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agents's promotion across its own apps and beyond.
Will Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both comp…
Anthropic rolls out up to $250 in free Claude Code credits, but only for cloud sessions
Anthropic now allows you to run Claude Code via cloud sessions without signing up for the research preview, and it's offering up to $250 in free usage credits, so more users can g…
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance
Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its firs…