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Russian-speaking cybercriminals spent seven weeks this spring running a coding assistant like a junior pentester, and it worked. According to an exclusive Reuters report published August 27, 2026, and a companion investigation from Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security, an affiliate of the Aurora ransomware operation used the AI agent inside Cursor, the code editor SpaceX now…
Android Police published a real-world comparison this week that’s landing hard with a specific slice of the tech audience: developers and privacy-conscious users tired of routing every prompt through a cloud API. The outlet’s testers ran a locally hosted, open-source AI tool against ChatGPT and Gemini across everyday tasks and, according to their write-up, the…
Every production app eventually needs the same thing: a login form that works, sessions that survive a page refresh, and routes that stay locked until someone proves who they are. The tricky part is that React and Vue solve this in almost opposite ways in 2026. React 19.2.7 leans on Server Components and Server Actions…
Rockstar Games broke its silence this week on the biggest security headache of its 25-year history, confirming that gameplay footage circulating online since August 18 came from an unauthorized breach rather than a marketing stunt. In a statement first reported by Forbes on August 26, the studio called the leak “heartbreaking for our team” and…
Take-Two Interactive has moved past public relations and into federal court paperwork. On August 20, 2026, the publisher filed DMCA subpoena applications demanding that Microsoft and Discord unmask the accounts behind the leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage that spread across the internet starting August 18. Both companies face a September 4 deadline to hand…
Designing effective reward signals for open-domain question answering is challenging because high-quality responses must simultaneously satisfy multiple aspects of answer quality that are difficult to capture with a holistic scalar objective. We introduce a rubric-based reward framework that generates query-specific rubrics grounded in retrieved evidence and decomposed into multiple quality dimensions, providing fine-grained supervision during…
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project’s first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting “red…
Gamescom 2026 usually belongs to game trailers. This year, a mouse stole part of the show. On August 26, 2026, ASUS used its Republic of Gamers press event in Cologne to unveil the ROG Spatha X 65K, a wireless MMO mouse built around a sensor rated at 65,000 DPI, alongside a companion model called the…
