A 29-year-old bug in the Squid web proxy, dubbed Squidbleed (CVE-2026-47729), can leak cleartext HTTP requests including credentials and session tokens to authorized proxy users. The flaw, discovered …
Oracle cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year, reducing its workforce from 162,000 to 141,000, as it reorganizes around AI and ramps up spending on data centers for customers like OpenAI and Meta.…
Tesla filed a trademark application for 'Megapod,' a modular AI data center hardware system, signaling plans to sell turnkey computing infrastructure for AI workloads. The product would bundle servers…
Tech pundit Cringely co-founded startup 2Brains Inc. in 2022 to solve LLM hallucinations by architecturally separating language generation from fact retrieval and verification. The company claims its …
A group of companies backing the Chip Security Act is urging Congress to mandate location-tracking for advanced AI chips to prevent them from reaching China and other adversaries. The bill would requi…
The Rust Foundation, with funding from the Alpha-Omega Project, is hiring a full-time AI Security Engineer in Residence to help maintainers filter AI-generated vulnerability reports. The six-month rol…
Canonical announced Myna, an upcoming speech-to-text dictation tool for Ubuntu Desktop that runs entirely on local hardware, respecting user privacy. The initial version for Ubuntu 26.10 will feature …
A new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance launched Thursday with $5 million to rally tech workers and labor unions in support of AI regulation, aiming to counter the influence of pro-AI groups li…
OpenAI released LifeSciBench, a 750-task benchmark to evaluate AI systems on realistic life science research tasks. Its top-performing GPT-Rosalind model achieved only a 36.1% pass rate, failing nearl…