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Google’s AI is confidently telling people that horror fan-fiction monsters are real

Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact.

According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP Foundation” as real. The SCP Foundation is a vast collaborative fan-fiction project. Its “anomalies” are invented, and its website says so plainly.

‘Ed’s Head’ and a haunted toaster

Take SCP-565, nicknamed “Ed’s Head”. Searched on Google, the AI Overview described it as an “ambulatory human head” that scuttles across the seabed like a crab, complete with a dead man’s name and “official” records to read. At no point did it note that none of this is real.

One case was stranger still. SCP-426 is a fictional toaster that makes people refer to it in the first person. So the AI Overview answered in the first person, as the toaster, and...

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ShinyHunters Targets Oracle PeopleSoft Customers Through Critical Zero-day

Oracle has issued a security alert to customers about a critical vulnerability affecting PeopleSoft environments after the notorious threat actor ShinyHunters claimed it used a previously unknown flaw to compromise over 100 entities. The vulnerability CVE-2026-35273 is in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools, and has a CVSS score of 9.8/10.

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NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA’s Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028,

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Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned

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A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware

AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a

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NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars

Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware