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A researcher used a Linux tool to probe a Sound Blaster speaker transport and found a route to PC compromise.
Build 2026 turns “agents in production” into a platform bet: context, governance, identity, memory, and secure data access.
A small modular nuclear startup cleared the self-sustaining line. Regulators and investors now shift to the next proof point.
A Unitarian Universalist engineer lobbied employers and is now coding without AI, raising Title VII questions for every HR team.
Box Elder County backlash over water transfers and grid impacts forced a hyperscale project downgrade before construction.
A plan to crash flesh-eating screwworms relies on sterile fly production that the US can’t scale right now.
A new AI-driven collaboration between Hitachi and Intel aims to improve how chips are made and how well they perform at scale.
GM says it can move new battery technology up to a year earlier, and a specific facility is central to the plan.
Lectric says the U.S. market is ready for competition, and it just launched three new brands in six months.
CVE-2026-20245 is being actively used, but Cisco says a fix is coming later, not now.
As AI fundraising sets records, Mirror founder Brynn Putnam is betting on social time in the real world.
Model routing matches tasks to the right AI model, reshaping spend, vendor strategy, and board-level risk for frontier labs.