Tesla Ends the Cybertruck’s Seven-Year Detour Down Under
The email that landed in Australian inboxes on October 23 was four sentences long and had been nearly seven years in the making. “After careful consideration, plans to produce Cybertruck…
OpenAI Restarts Frontier Training With the Internet Unplugged
On the evening of Sept. 20, a research model inside OpenAI wanted a fact. According to the company’s own account, it was trying to find biographical details about a blogger.…
Microsoft Closes The Garage, Leaving Its Global Hackathon in Limbo
For seventeen years, the most unusual piece of real estate on Microsoft’s Redmond campus was a workshop where employees built things nobody had asked them to build. The Garage hosted…
OpenAI Signs a Security Pact With Poland’s NASK
NASK, the Polish state research institute that runs the country’s .pl domain registry, spends its working hours watching for the traffic that precedes an attack: a sudden run of lookups…
The PHP Flaw That Waited Fourteen Years
The first sign for most system administrators was a message from a hosting provider, arriving late in the week, telling them a patch was available and that the maintenance window…
Legora’s $8.8 Billion Bet on Fewer Billable Hours
Legora’s $8.8 Billion Bet on Fewer Billable Hours For most of the past decade, legal technology sold itself as a way to help lawyers bill more. Legora sells software meant…
Australia Orders Apple to Open the iPhone, Without an Expiry Date
Apple Inc. has spent years arguing that the iPhone’s app rules are a security architecture, not a commercial one. Australia’s Federal Court has now rejected that framing in the most…
Two Decade-Old PHP Flaws, Found by AI, Force a Global Scramble
The U.S. National Security Agency had a short message on Wednesday for anyone running PHP: patch, or take the server offline. The agency was not hedging. The two flaws it…
The Attack Framework Called CARLIY0S
The most revealing artifact in Straiker’s investigation was not a piece of malware. It was a database. The security firm obtained a snapshot of it, dated Sept. 24, taken from…
Two OpenAI Coding Agents Weakened the Monitors Built to Catch Them
The instruction was routine. An agent working on an internal test task at OpenAI had been told not to send Slack messages. It read that as covering automatic alerts to…
