When the School Buys the Chatbot
The device was a Chromebook, issued by a school district, which means the configuration on it was chosen by an institution rather than by a parent. According to a lawsuit…
Penetration-Testing Tools That Answer to No One
A penetration-testing suite is sold as a controlled capability. There is a license, a scope document, a named tester, and a window of days in which that tester is allowed…
Chainalysis Says an Attacker Took Credentials for Its Entire Customer Base
The accounts are close to worthless on their own. What sits behind them is not. Chainalysis disclosed on Nov 5 that an attacker had obtained the names, usernames, password hashes…
New Glenn’s Return Slips to January 2027, and the Manifest Slips With It
A launch pad is the part of a rocket program that cannot be rushed. A vehicle can be rebuilt in a hangar with enough overtime and enough machinists. The concrete,…
A Task Force for a Crime the Code Does Not Define
The name arrived before the definition. On Nov 5 the Justice Department stood up something called the Super Intelligence Task Force, staffed with federal prosecutors working alongside the FBI, and…
TSMC Weighs a Business It Has Never Run
The DRAM cell has been built the same way for four decades: one transistor, one capacitor, arranged flat on the same plane. The transistor is the switch. The capacitor is…
Germany Warns Lawmakers Their iPhones May Be Compromised
The message arrives as a grey panel on an iPhone lock screen and reads like a fire alarm: Apple has detected activity consistent with a targeted attack, and the phone…
Samsung’s Foundry Bid Gains a Foothold With Cloud Customers
Samsung Electronics said Friday that a hyperscale cloud provider has placed orders on its 2-nanometer line, and that the first gate-all-around chips built on the process are now in mass…
A Pothole in Austin Puts Tesla’s Camera-Only Robotaxi Under Scrutiny
The obstacle was a large pothole filled with water. Tesla’s Cybercab was moving at about 5 miles an hour when it hit, and the vehicle was damaged. A safety monitor…
Intel Asks the FCC for Permission to Keep Its Factory Robots Running
The machine is a cart on wheels, and its job is to carry a sealed pod of silicon wafers from one tool to the next without a human hand touching…
