The End of the Captcha? Not So Fast
You may be seeing fewer demands to prove you are human on websites. But AI is changing the battle on both sides. Here’s where it stands.
Month: September 2026
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From Sextortion
Sextortion schemes are traumatizing online attacks that can target teens and adults alike.
Opinion | The AI Agent Rubicon
Politics may be less keen on artificial intelligence as actor rather than adviser.
U.S. Launches New Round of Strikes on Iranian Oil Tankers
Plus, the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court’s blessing on using a voter verification system, and Meta released a new AI agent for consumers.
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control.
Is China Stealing American AI? Why ‘Distillation’ Has Washington Up in Arms
U.S. security agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of systematically exploiting American models to train their own systems.
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.
Google deepens its commitment to Finland with a €13 billion investment in AI infrastructure
Google invests €13B in Finland to boost digital infrastructure, clean energy, create jobs, and support local environmental initiatives.
Our blueprint for responsible clean energy growth in Finland
Today Google announced new local energy partnerships — including our first ever agreement for a nuclear plant life extension & uprate — to contribute to a resilient, aff…
N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by September 11, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS score: 10.0), which has been described as a