It booked our meetings and cleared our inbox beautifully. Then we hid one line of text on a web page, and it started taking orders from a stranger. A first-hand report on prompt injection, the flaw the people who build these tools admit they cannot fully fix.
The AI music tools are genuinely good now, but the catch is not the sound, it is the small print. We compare the ones that matter on quality, price, and the thing people get burned on, whether you are actually allowed to use, download and sell what you make.
There is no single best electric car, there is a best one for your budget and your driving. We compare the ones that matter on real range, starting price and value, from the $29,990 Nissan Leaf to the 512-mile Lucid Air, so you can pick without overpaying.
The chainsaw is back on 6 October. Here is everything confirmed about the Gears prequel: the platforms, every edition and price, the early-access dates, and what two beta weekends told us about Horde Siege.
You do not need to pay for this. We tested the free background removers and found the trap most people fall into, plus the genuinely free tools that give you a full-resolution cutout, including ones that never upload your photo at all.
OpenAI showed off its first in-house AI chip and said it does more work per watt than Nvidia's Blackwell. The claim is real, but the fine print matters: these are OpenAI's own benchmarks, against Nvidia's older memory, from a chip that barely ships yet.
Two GLP-1 weight-loss pills are now approved and a wave more is coming. Here is what they actually deliver, how they compare to the injections, the side effects that get less attention, and why a pill could matter beyond the headline numbers.
It booked our meetings and cleared our inbox beautifully. Then we hid one line of text on a web page, and it started taking orders from a stranger. A first-hand report on prompt injection, the flaw the people who build these tools admit they cannot fully fix.
The AI music tools are genuinely good now, but the catch is not the sound, it is the small print. We compare the ones that matter on quality, price, and the thing people get burned on, whether you are actually allowed to use, download and sell what you make.
OpenAI showed off its first in-house AI chip and said it does more work per watt than Nvidia's Blackwell. The claim is real, but the fine print matters: these are OpenAI's own benchmarks, against Nvidia's older memory, from a chip that barely ships yet.
Grayscale filed to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF on NYSE Arca under ticker ZCSH, expected to trade around 25 August. It would be one of the first US spot ETFs tied to a privacy coin. It charges 2.5 percent a year, and the token has been sharply volatile.
After cancelling a public meeting, the SEC approved a crypto-offering proposal on 18 August by seriatim vote. The text is now public: a tiered fundraising exemption up to $75 million, a $5 million startup path, and a safe harbour that turns on ceasing 'essential managerial efforts.' A proposal, not law, unlikely before 2027.
Riot Platforms, a major listed Bitcoin miner, signed a 20-year lease worth about $9.1 billion to host a frontier AI lab at its Texas campus; the filing does not name the tenant, but reports say Anthropic. It is among the clearest signs miners are pivoting to AI as mining margins collapse.
The chainsaw is back on 6 October. Here is everything confirmed about the Gears prequel: the platforms, every edition and price, the early-access dates, and what two beta weekends told us about Horde Siege.
CD Projekt Red is remastering its masterpiece, and if you already own it, the upgrade is free. Here is the 29 September date, what actually changes, the Switch 2 version, and how the paid Songs of the Past expansion fits in.
Gamescom 2026 showed roughly 40 games on 25 August, but the reveal that stole it was The Witcher 3 Remastered, a free 29 September upgrade also coming to Switch 2. Here is what is genuinely new, what is confirmed, and what is still just a window.
On 25 August, Pennsylvania's attorney general sued Snap, accusing Snapchat of addictive design for minors and hiding how much adult content is on the app. It is one state's complaint that opens a case, not a ruling or a fine. Snap says the claims misrepresent its platform.
The US Justice Department said on 21 August that TikTok and ByteDance will pay up to $400 million to resolve a 2024 lawsuit accusing them of letting under-13s make accounts and collecting kids' data without consent, breaching COPPA. The deal adds age checks and requires no admission of wrongdoing.
Between 13 and 16 August, SafePal, Trezor's shipping partner ShipMonk, and Israel's Bits of Gold each disclosed breaches, exposing about a quarter-million customers' names, phones and shipping addresses. No wallets were drained, but the leaked addresses fuel targeted phishing and, for large holders, the physical 'wrench attacks' researchers say are rising.
There is no single best electric car, there is a best one for your budget and your driving. We compare the ones that matter on real range, starting price and value, from the $29,990 Nissan Leaf to the 512-mile Lucid Air, so you can pick without overpaying.
Starcloud added a 250 million dollar extension to its round, valuing the orbital-data-centre startup at 2.3 billion, with Nvidia and Cisco Investments joining. The pitch: meet AI's power demand in space. It runs one Nvidia GPU in orbit so far, and the plan rides on cheaper Starship launches.
On 20 August, Nevada approved permits letting three companies charge for autonomous rides around Las Vegas: Tesla up to 5,000 vehicles, Waymo up to 1,000, and Uber's Aviari up to 1,000. Those 7,000 are among the highest permit ceilings any US state has written, but only Waymo runs with no safety driver.
Two GLP-1 weight-loss pills are now approved and a wave more is coming. Here is what they actually deliver, how they compare to the injections, the side effects that get less attention, and why a pill could matter beyond the headline numbers.
A large 2026 US nursing-home study of more than half a million older adults found Shingrix recipients were diagnosed with dementia less often, 18.8 versus 24.6 percent over four years. It is observational and cannot prove cause; a report on what the study shows, not medical advice.
A Leiden team combined deep James Webb spectra with ground data for nine massive galaxies that had already stopped forming stars early on. The spectra imply far more faint, low-mass stars than expected, making the galaxies heavier, one perhaps four times so. It deepens rather than solves the early-galaxy puzzle.
You do not need to pay for this. We tested the free background removers and found the trap most people fall into, plus the genuinely free tools that give you a full-resolution cutout, including ones that never upload your photo at all.
On 24 August, CISA added a CVSS 10.0 Oracle flaw, CVE-2026-21962, to its Known Exploited list with a three-day federal deadline. It reads like an emergency zero-day but is not: Oracle patched it in January 2026. What changed is the KEV listing, not the bug or the fix.
Researchers at ASSET detailed GhostSplice, which makes AI coding agents leak local secrets by splitting a refused request across trusted channels, each fragment harmless alone. It roughly doubled compliance, from 42 to 82 percent, though Claude models mostly refused. A warning about how agents combine tool inputs.
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