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Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report, but if it sits behind strong segmentation, identity controls, and other defenses that…
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Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under 35, a list of some of the brightest and best young minds…
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.
The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.
The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.
A cluster of leaks landed within days of each other in early September 2026, and together they gave the clearest look yet at the silicon Apple has not yet confirmed. Three separate outlets (wccftech.com, Notebookcheck, and shattered.io) published overlapping but not identical claims about the A20 Pro, the chip expected to power the iPhone 18…
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max went live on QwenCloud on August 3, 2026, and within two weeks developers were pushing full codebases and hundred-page contracts into its 1-million-token context window instead of chunking them into a vector database first. The model is a 2.4 trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts system that only activates roughly 95 billion parameters per token, which is…
Google made its move in the desktop AI assistant fight on September 10, 2026, publishing a post on blog.google with a headline that read like a formality but landed like a shot across Microsoft’s bow: “The Gemini app is now available for Windows.” After roughly two and a half years of living inside a browser…
