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Ransomware Hackers Targeting Employee Monitoring Software To Access Computers
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (437+ words) A popular workforce monitoring tool is being targeted by hackers and used as a foothold for ransomware attacks, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Huntress. In late January and early February 2026, Huntress" Tactical Response team investigated two break-ins…...
Lego Debuts 'Smart Brick' at CES, Bringing Light, Sound and Silicon Into the Classic 2x4
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (558+ words) Lego Debuts 'Smart Brick' at CES, Bringing Light, Sound and Silicon Into the Classic 2x4 The hottest product unveiled at CES 2026 this week? Lego's "Smart Brick," a tech-loaded 2x4 that adds lights, sounds and sensor-driven responses to traditional Lego sets'without requiring apps,…...
Ledger Finds Popular Smartphone Chip Vulnerable to Unpatchable Attacks
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (573+ words) Ledger Finds Popular Smartphone Chip Vulnerable to Unpatchable Attacks An unpatchable flaw in a widely used smartphone chip developed by Taiwan-based MediaTek allowed researchers to take full control of the device through a precisely timed electromagnetic attack, according to new…...
China's Z-Image Dethrones Flux as King of AI Art—And Your Potato PC Can Run It
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (678+ words) China's Z-Image Dethrones Flux as King of AI Art'And Your Potato PC Can Run It Alibaba's Tongyi Lab Z-Image Turbo, a 6-billion-parameter image generation model, dropped last week with a simple promise: state-of-the-art quality on hardware you actually own. That…...
I Made an AI Speak Every Century of English—It Ended With a Message From the Year 15,000
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1178+ words) I Made an AI Speak Every Century of English'It Ended With a Message From the Year 15,000 If you've ever tried reading Chaucer in the original Middle English, then you know the feeling. The words look almost familiar, but your brain…...
A Smarter Way to Talk to AI: Here's How to ‘Context Engineer’ Your Prompts
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (101+ words) A team at Shanghai AI Lab says most AI errors stem not from bad models but from thin prompts. Their solution'context engineering'shows that giving language models richer background information leads to better results. A Smarter Way to Talk to AI:…...
Humanoid Hype Meets Reality: 1X's $20K NEO Home Robot Draws Skepticism, Memes
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1070+ words) Humanoid Hype Meets Reality: 1X's $20K NEO Home Robot Draws Skepticism, Memes The humanoid race looked ready to enter the living room this week'until viewers saw what 1X's $20,000 home robot can actually do. On Tuesday, the Palo Alto startup unveiled NEO'a…...
Ledger's Latest Nano Crypto Hardware Wallet Offers a Punch of Personality
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (678+ words) Ledger's Latest Nano Crypto Hardware Wallet Offers a Punch of Personality Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger is leaning into personality and fun with its latest product rollout, introducing the new Ledger Nano Gen5, which features a series of badges developed by…...
Solana Saga Loses Security Updates and Support Following Seeker Phone Rollout
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (499+ words) Solana Saga Loses Security Updates and Support Following Seeker Phone Rollout Solana Mobile is discontinuing support for the Solana Saga smartphone and will no longer offer software updates for the first-generation crypto handset, the firm announced on Monday." As a…...
Salesforce Faces Class Action Over Alleged Illegal AI Training Data
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (490+ words) Salesforce Faces Class Action Over Alleged Illegal AI Training Data A new class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court has accused software giant Salesforce of building its XGen AI models on a pirated library of books and then scrubbing…...