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Skyroot Aerospace, founded by former ISRO engineers, is preparing for India's first orbital launch attempt by a private company with its Vikram-1 rocket, designed to carry up to 350 kilograms into low

The FCC extended its deadline for software updates on foreign-made routers from March 1, 2027, to January 1, 2029 , allowing already-authorized devices to receive critical security patches longer desp

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 —

This Reddit post discusses a user request to an AI image generation tool (likely DALL-E or similar) to create an image depicting a biopic movie scene featuring an actor portraying televangelist Kennet

Audi's new Q9 flagship features a spacious, exclusive interior conceived as a sanctuary, offering up to seven seats with electrically powered doors and a large panoramic sunroof with switchable transp

Luke James / Tom's Hardware: Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction — Metrics a

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. closed 15.9% higher today after it reported earnings, announced a token sale and debuted a new set of developer tools. NYSE-listed Circle issues the popular USDC s

Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg: Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a 275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a 2B valuation — A space unicorn starte

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug” — yes,

A data center campus in north-central Georgia consumed more than 29 million gallons of water without the local utility company initially realizing it, triggering low-pressure water flow to the host co

Every ML codebase seems to follow the same arc: hardcoded script → CLI flags → YAML config → YAML-as-a-programming-language nightmare. We replaced thousands of lines of inherited YAML with type-checke

Formula 1 leaders agreed to change engine regulations for 2027 by adjusting the 50-50 power split to increase internal combustion output. The changes aim to address driver concerns about excessive lif

Finding Hugging Face Buckets really, really useful - very easy to mount & write to Probably easiest sort of bucket I've worked with so far, DX is much better than S3, R2, modal, etc. @huggingface team

This Reddit post from r/ChatGPT likely discusses a creative prompt experiment where users attempted to get ChatGPT or similar AI image generation tools to create disturbing or horror-themed content by

David Welch / Bloomberg: GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources: the cuts will affect 500 to 600 employees — General Moto

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), 'prominent cyber crime threat actor

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The com

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits — Google's Threat

Grok just previewed “Skills” and it's so next level it's not even funny You tell it: “Create a skill that grabs latest AI news from @testingcatalog” @Grok builds the WHOLE thing, behavior, instruction

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called 'interaction models.' The idea behind interaction models, according t

In this post, we dive deep into the architecture and techniques we used to improve Miro’s bug routing, achieving six times fewer team reassignments and five times shorter time-to-resolution powered by

Netherlands- and Belgium-based imaging technology startup eyeo B.V. said today it has closed on a €40 million ($47.07 million) Series A round of funding in order to try to fulfill its mission to enhan

iOS 26.5 introduces end-to-end encryption for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users, with encryption requiring both participants to have a carrier that supports the feature. The upda

CTech: Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index and others — The Israeli firm aims to modern

'It would be a mistake for any country to try to slow down open source. A country that leads open source is a country that can lead AI in general' @ClementDelangue, co-founder & CEO @HuggingFace Watch

My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of

Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate rep

Launch rehearsal complete. During a flight-like countdown, more than 5,000 metric tonnes (11+ million pounds) of propellant were loaded on the fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles for th

I can see this appears to be a social media post about a perceived shift in online discourse or cultural sentiment, but the truncated title and unavailable URL prevent me from accessing the full conte

Reachy Mini Wireless is a new robotic product announcement, likely featuring wireless connectivity capabilities and representing an advancement in the Reachy robot line. The announcement was made by C

Maye Musk on Elon: He wants to leave the world in a better place than he found it “People often misunderstand Elon. He’s not motivated by money or fame—he’s motivated by the idea of improving humanity

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO — OpenAI co-founder

CNBC: Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took

My latest interview with @Capgemini, sharing my view on AI sovereignty: For countries, the clearest error is believing that the only two choices are to accept an American model or to build one from sc

IBM Think saw Big Blue grab its place in the artificial intelligence spotlight. In a week full of notable, and surprising, AI news, IBM Think saw CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize AI as the operating model

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, our effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we'd like to start working with

Eighteen U.S. cruise passengers from the MV Hondius returned to the U.S. on May 11, 2026, after weeks aboard the ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. One passenger tested 'mildly' posit

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. is expected to increase the size and price of its initial public offering later today as investor demand for access to its shares continues to r

This Databricks resource examines retail markdown optimization strategies, contrasting reactive markdown approaches (responding to inventory issues after they occur) with proactive markdown strategies

Dua Lipa filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging the electronics company used her photograph to sell televisions without permission or payment. Samsung began featuring Lipa's image on TV

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at 150-160 each, up from 28M shares at 115-125, aiming to raise up to 4.8B at an up to 34.4B valuation — Cerebras System

In a 9-0 Supreme Court decision, Cox Communications prevailed against Sony Music Entertainment in a landmark copyright case decided March 25, 2026, with the Court finding that internet service provide

The Information: Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at 38B; they previously could have totaled 135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met — OpenAI Chief Financial

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups — Robinhood has filed confiden

Financial Times: Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise 1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about 18B, up from 14B in June 2025 — German company backed by Spot