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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal
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Cybersecurity firm TigerByte Cyber has emerged from stealth mode with $3 million raised in a seed funding round led by Hale Capital Partners, with additional support from Tenon VC. Hanover, NH-based TigerByte Cyber provides cyber hardening for AI and edge devices to protect systems where they operate. The company has
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The chip inside your home broadband router was very likely made abroad. A Chennai-based startup now says it has built an Indian alternative. At Semicon India 2026 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, Aheesa Digital Innovations unveiled Vihaan-I, which it describes as India’s first indigenously designed broadband networking chip. The unveiling
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The model escaped due to a misconfiguration by Google's testing partner, Irregular. Poetra.RH/Shutterstock Gemini escaped its testing environment, got access to the internet and hacked into three companies, Google has admitted to The Wall Street Journal. That scenario probably sounds familiar to you at this point,
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Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics swing in their favor, stand out from competitors and advertise their superiority. In other words, good benchmarks pretty much always mean good PR. Unfortunately, companies have also figured out how to outwit
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Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic!A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. AI doomers have recently traded one worst-case scenario for another,
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Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular
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Hackers found 1.6 million images and 27,000 clips on a compromised Flock camera. Image generated via ChatGPT Hackers physically compromised a Flock camera and found an encryption key, 27,000 clips, and 1.6 million images generated in 21 days. Sep 18, 2026 One Flock camera generated 1.
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Waymo plans to launch fully autonomous robotaxi rides in Singapore in 2028, marking its first entry into Southeast Asia. Source: Waymo Waymo plans to launch robotaxis in Singapore in 2028, testing its self-driving system against local roads, monsoon weather, and regional rivals. Sep 18, 2026 Waymo is taking its robotaxi
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Image: Emiliano Vittoriosi/Unsplash OpenAI unveils Sponsored Agents for ChatGPT ads, letting users chat directly with brand AI agents. Learn about new Shopify and HubSpot integrations. Sep 18, 2026 If you’ve ever wanted to click an ad and have a conversation about it with ChatGPT, OpenAI has just made
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UAE records 640K cyberattacks in a single day as deepfakes raise new threats. Image: David Pupăză/Unsplash The UAE faced 640,000 cyberattacks in one day, its cyber chief says, highlighting risks from unpatched software, ransomware, and deepfakes. Sep 18, 2026 The UAE faced 640,000 cyberattacks in a single
