Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of…
US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
The Trump administration is trying to stop New York from enforcing its gambling laws against Kalshi, and yesterday said it ordered the prediction market to continue operating in the state.…
Formula E finds a new home on Disney+, ESPN+
Formula E is set to make a big change in terms of visibility when season 12 gets underway this December. It has signed a new multiyear deal to broadcast the…
Researchers found a way to hijack devices through Zoom screen sharing
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on…
Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag
Google has revealed its Pixel phone hardware for 2026, and you won’t be surprised. The Pixel 11 series looks a lot like last year’s lineup, featuring an evolution of the…
737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One
A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traffic…
Did poop enable the evolution of complex animals?
The Cambrian explosion may have been fueled by poop. The first animals on Earth emerged about 600 million years ago, and 60 million years later, those simple early animals evolved…
Enterprise Defenses Recovered at the Edge and Collapsed Inside
Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year’s data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs’ new Blue Report 2026, which measured…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models’ Reasoning
A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API…
Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered
For all the talk of “reforming” or “repealing” Section 230 in Congress, the fact is that the courts over the past three or four years have effectively chipped away so…