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Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain If you use WordPress, patch now. Just hours after fixes came out, attackers have begun exploiting two bugs that, when chained together, allow pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE). And security researchers tell us there’s a very good chance the miscreants had
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Tatiana Maksimova / Getty Images ByAdam McBride July 20, 2026 06:23 PM ET COMMENTARY | The era of static checklists is over. The future belongs to living, adaptive digital identity programs. * NIST * Cyber Threats The federal government is racing to deliver secure, seamless digital services to millions of Americans, from veterans
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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle was a stumper for me. I saw “Tube,” “Gram,” and “Book” and thought maybe they referred to the second part of various social media programs — YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. It was a typical Times red herring, though, as that was not where they were going
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Almost any modern AI chatbot can allow you to vibe code these days. From event calendars to old school video game demakes, all you need to do is tell it what you want to build, and it will get to work. Google’s Gemini is pretty decent at doing this,
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* Xpeng says China will soon produce a product to beat the Tesla Model Y * Co-founder He Xiaopeng says the company isn't far from beating Tesla * Tech-focused company wants to compete with premium European players During the launch of Xpeng's upcoming L03 EV in Munich this week,
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Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC’s getting ready to wield that power for the first time, by cracking down on
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,
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Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets. He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported at the time. Burns was
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TL;DR Neo raised $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a real-time control layer for agentic AI software in enterprises. 5% of apps were agentic in 2025. 40% will be by end of 2026. Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and
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TL;DR 01.ai is pursuing a 2027 Hong Kong IPO after pivoting from building AI models to enterprise data infrastructure. Lee calls the product “Boss AI” and the company “the Palantir of China.” Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong
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TL;DR Seoul National University’s SafeDrive model scores multiple driving paths for safety before choosing one. First Korean end-to-end autonomous driving paper to earn a CVPR highlight. Most self-driving AI models study how humans drive and try to copy them. They work well in normal conditions but struggle to
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TL;DR Tesla’s Q2 deliveries beat estimates but the stock fell. Earnings on Wednesday face sky-high expectations. Rivian’s R2 targets Tesla’s core segment. The valuation depends on non-automotive bets. Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase.
