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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support , along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang…

2,000 UK flight cancellations caused by ‘previously unknown defect’ that happened in the ‘space of a millisecond’ — travel chaos took days to fix and left hundreds of thousands stranded

Following an investigation, NATS has determined that the fault was caused by a manual request for a squawk code that became corrupted, forcing the National Airspace System (NAS) that covers the UK to be restarted…

North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices

As well as placing fraudulent IT workers inside Western companies, regime-backed cybercriminals have posed as recruiters to infect more than 30,000 devices and steal over $10 million, according to an international…

Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their code…

Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage

7 from physical damage. The LA wildfires brought similar dependencies. StellarLight founder Christopher Powers is pursuing a hybrid device combining satellite, cellular, and WiFi with AI-driven switching. He sees energy…

Samsung Gallery finally syncs directly with Google Photos: Here's how to turn it on

Earlier this month, it was rumored that Samsung would shift away from OneDrive as the dedicated cloud backup solution for its Gallery app in favor of Google Photos . And now, that integration finally appears to be…

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Potential investors in the round include IDG Capital, Boyu Capital, and battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology, as well as existing backers Tencent, HSG, and ZhenFund, the Journal reported. Manus is also said to…

FBI confirms two Texas-bound oil tankers hit by hackers who disabled coms and put the engines into overdrive — and Iran is possibly to blame

It is a Liberian crude oil tanker, travelling from Egypt’s Sidi Kerir Oil Terminal towards Galveston, Texas, where it was supposed to dock on August 24. On its route, lasting roughly 25 days, it passed through the Strait…

FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received close to 61,000 complaints of this type between January 2025 and July 2026, putting the average per-complaint loss at more than $26,000. The most common type of…

I spoke to Apple’s new VP of Hardware Engineering about why he's ‘especially proud’ of the iPhone Duo’s hinge durability and the reliability of Ceramic Shield 2: ‘When I see someone put a screen protector on their iPhone, it makes my skin crawl’

But while features like ingress protection and corrosion resistance aren’t the sexiest topics of discussion at Apple Park, they are some of the most important for ensuring Apple’s products stand the test of time — and…