GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
Google Deepens Intel Chip Ties in AI Cloud Push
The announcement arrived as a routine press release on an April morning, but the engineering detail buried in it says more about how AI data centers are changing than most…
DuckDuckGo Traffic Jumps as Google Doubles Down on AI Search
Sundar Pichai said last week that people love AI Mode. The numbers from DuckDuckGo suggest a sizable minority disagrees. Between May 20 and May 25, visits to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search…
Uber Burns Through Its AI Budget in Four Months
Uber Technologies set an artificial intelligence budget for 2026 that was supposed to last the year. It lasted four months. Andrew Macdonald, the company’s president, said publicly that Uber exhausted…
7-Eleven Data Breach Exposes 185,000 Records
The most personal numbers a company can hold, names, birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers, were taken in a data breach at 7-Eleven, according to a report by TechCrunch.…
An AI Found a macOS Kernel Flaw. Apple Just Patched It.
The bug report arrived from an unusual place: a chatbot. Apple’s security advisory says Claude, the AI assistant built by Anthropic, discovered a kernel-level vulnerability in macOS during autonomous testing,…
Anthropic to Brief Financial Stability Board on Cyber Flaws Found by Its AI Model
Anthropic has agreed to brief members of the Financial Stability Board on vulnerabilities that one of its AI models identified in the cyber defenses of the global financial system, according…
Jury Rules Against Musk in OpenAI Suit; Founder Says He Will Appeal
A federal jury in Oakland, California ruled on Monday that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI is barred by the statute of limitations, handing the company a sweeping victory in a…
Microsoft’s High-Severity Flaws Nearly Doubled in 2025, BeyondTrust Finds
Microsoft disclosed 1,273 software vulnerabilities in 2025, fewer than the year before, but the number of high-severity flaws nearly doubled, according to a report published Tuesday by the cybersecurity firm…
Jury Rejects Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit, Citing Statute of Limitations
Nine jurors filed back into a federal courtroom in Oakland, Calif., on Monday afternoon after roughly two hours of deliberation. Their verdict, read in open court, ended two years of…
