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MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Fortnite has quietly become the easiest way to prove that cloud gaming works without a wallet. No Xbox console, no Game Pass Ultimate, no download. Sign in with a free Microsoft account at xbox.com/play, pick a device, and you are dropped into a match streamed from a Microsoft data center. That setup has been live…
Every AI coding agent that writes and runs its own code needs somewhere safe to do it. That is the entire premise behind cloud sandboxes: isolated, disposable machines that spin up in milliseconds, execute untrusted code, and disappear before anything can go wrong. By September 27, 2026, three names dominate that market conversation: E2B, Modal…
Indie studios building session-based multiplayer games face a decision that has nothing to do with game design: which cloud service will sync player state, broadcast chat, and update leaderboards in real time. Firebase, Supabase, and AWS AppSync all promise real-time data sync without a dedicated game server. As of September 2026, their pricing, connection limits,…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
The Trump administration’s Justice Department waded into the six-year war between Apple and Epic Games on September 22, 2026, filing an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court that backs part of Apple’s appeal while rejecting other pieces of the contempt order Epic won last year, according to MacRumors. The filing lands eight days after…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has spent the past two months quietly working its way from a GitHub release notice into mainstream cloud infrastructure, and the past three weeks have turned that slow build into the biggest open-weight AI story of the fall. The Beijing-based lab published Kimi K3 as an open-weight model in July 2026,…
Four months after Oracle patched a critical remote-code-execution hole in PeopleSoft, the attackers who broke in through it are back. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and its Mandiant incident-response unit say the extortion crew tracked as ShinyHunters, internally designated UNC6240, has resumed widespread exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by disguising its attack traffic so that web application firewalls…
