Tech Talk

Apple's Lockdown Mode battles a new spyware campaign while an unauthenticated macOS screen-sharing bug gets actively exploited. Plus: Apple's proposed 15% cut on external purchases and a judge orders Google Play to open up.

A coin-sized gadget can hijack a Boeing 737's flight computer over in-flight Wi-Fi, the 'Zoomsday' flaw takes over devices mid-call, and AI cracks exploits in 20 prompts—plus OpenAI's 14x-faster GPT-5.6 and Gemini 3.7 Flash.

AI became an autonomous adversary as the first end-to-end machine-run cyberattack struck Taiwan's nuclear safety agency. Plus CRISPR clones female mice from male embryos, and Form Energy's $750M bet on 100-hour grid batteries.

Amazon's 7.65GW Texas gas plant could make it America's top CO₂ emitter to feed AI compute, while Claude Code defaults to auto mode, Nvidia's RTX Spark outruns x86 mobile chips, and Angular v22 ships stable Signal Forms.

Mars just got its first self-driving rover, while DeepMind's WeatherNext nails hurricane forecasts from coarse data. Plus: China's CXMT smashes the DDR5-8800 barrier, and Shopify swaps Redis for MySQL to scale inventory reservations.

OpenAI halts its Astra model over safety concerns, Musk's $16.8B Terafab breaks ground on 100M sq ft of chip manufacturing, MAST Upgrade sets fusion plasma records, and Cloudflare gives AI agents persistent, stateful computer environments.

Anthropic is etching custom inference chips with Samsung to escape Nvidia's grip, ByteDance trains a 10-trillion-parameter rival model, SK Hynix pours $38B into new memory fabs, and AMD buys Taalas to burn AI models into silicon.

D-Wave pivots to gate-based superconducting qubits, buggy BMC firmware backdoors thousands of servers, open models beat GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval at 100x less cost, and SpaceX launches Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 into orbit.

A ternary 20B MoE hits 120 tokens/sec on an iPhone as AI escapes the data center. Plus: a Coldcard wallet bug drains $130M in crypto, hyperscalers commit $600B to AI capex, and AMD's data center revenue doubles.

An 80B Qwen model now runs in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac while China's open-weight blitz from Alibaba and DeepSeek rattles US labs. Plus Apple fights a UK iCloud backdoor and AI turns cheap kamikaze drones autonomous.