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A growing backlash against AI is evident in public sentiment, particularly on platforms like TikTok, where users express visceral hatred for the technology. The author argues that Silicon Valley underestimates this hosti…
Microsoft hosted a community meeting on June 30, 2026, for its planned 1,385-acre data center campus in Person County, North Carolina, gathering feedback on utility upgrades, water use, and job creation. The project is i…
Anthropic's most powerful model, Fable 5, has been taken offline worldwide since June 12 following an emergency US Commerce Department directive citing national security concerns after a jailbreak method surfaced. Meanwh…
On March 24, 2026, attackers compromised LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline and uploaded malicious PyPI packages that stole credentials from environments with three million daily downloads. The incident highlights AI supply chain …
China is challenging core American assumptions about innovation and technology, flipping the script on the US-led industrial revolution in AI and other cutting-edge fields. The shift inverts the historical 'Needham Quest…
PJM Interconnection, the largest US power grid, has begun curtailing data centers during heat emergencies after receiving federal approval, signaling the end of unlimited power access for AI infrastructure. Capacity pric…
Three years after ChatGPT's launch, the EU, US, and China remain deeply divided on AI regulation, with the EU's strict transparency rules taking effect August 2, 2026, the US pursuing deregulation, and China building a s…
Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh told the Risky Business podcast that AI coding agents are accelerating software supply chain risks by pulling in dependencies at machine speed and making unreviewed trust decisions, as atta…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper and faster version of Opus 4.8, while the industry awaits more advanced models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol. The article also discusses AI regulation, noting that the …
US export controls suspended Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 12, 2026; Mythos 5 was restored on June 26 to over 100 US institutions, but Fable 5 remains blocked pending NSA and Pentagon approval. Anthropi…
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 30, 2026, that states may bar transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho. The decision, which validates similar bans…
Richmond, California, is considering a November ballot measure to raise about $120 million annually through a property tax to overhaul its fire department, which has been the only one in Contra Costa County limited to ba…
Nvidia shareholders reelected all ten director nominees and approved a governance change from supermajority to simple majority voting at the company's 2026 annual meeting. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized agentic AI as the lo…
Cryptographer Daniel J. Bernstein criticizes claims that ML-KEM (Kyber) is low-risk, arguing that proponents narrow the definition of risk to exclude timing attacks and software bugs. He highlights KyberSlash vulnerabili…
The United States, Japan, and South Korea announced a joint initiative to combat North Korea's cryptocurrency crimes, including theft, money laundering, and AI-driven hacking, aiming to disrupt financial networks funding…
Automated pentesting tools are failing to detect critical vulnerabilities, especially in AI-rich environments, according to Cobalt's 2026 State of Pentesting report. 78% of surveyed security practitioners experienced cri…
Fourteen House Republicans sank Speaker Mike Johnson's procedural maneuver to merge the SAVE Act with the NDAA, defeating the rule 198-224. The holdouts, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, argued the MIRV strategy would allo…
The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to provide identity theft victims with records of fraudulent purchases and refusing to remove their credit ca…
The US, Japan, and South Korea held their fifth trilateral working group meeting on June 25-26 to coordinate against North Korea's crypto theft operations, which accounted for 76% of global crypto hack losses in early 20…
A researcher discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code silently embeds invisible Unicode steganographic markers into system prompts when users route requests through custom API proxies, fingerprinting requests without disc…