On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Connor Leahy, U.S. Executive Director of nonprofit ControlAI, argued that AI firms should be stopped from building superintelligent systems entirely rather than relying on alignment and containment techniques. He pointed to recent safety lapses, including OpenAI's Hugging Face breach, as evidence that highly capable AI can slip beyond human control. Leahy also noted that new legislative efforts are now backing ideas that seemed fringe just months ago.
Hypertune has publicly released its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, an automated overclocking tool built on Intel's XTU SDK and developed with Intel's involvement. The software tunes CPU and GPU settings, Windows configurations, and network and game-specific parameters based on an individual system's hardware rather than applying generic profiles. Hypertune's own benchmarks show gains ranging from about 4% to 28% in specific games, far below the marketed 60% ceiling.
Researchers testing an AI-designed anti-aging drug reported that it lowered participants' biological age, as measured by aging clocks, in every case in the trial. The drug's development leaned on artificial intelligence tools to identify compounds likely to slow or reverse aging markers in the body.
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update addresses 966 vulnerabilities, the largest batch it has ever released in a single month, including 105 critical-rated bugs. Two of the flaws are zero-days already being actively exploited by attackers. This follows 570 fixes in August and 400 the month before, showing a sharp month-over-month escalation.
Apple is preparing to unveil its first foldable iPhone, a device expected to carry a premium price tag. The reveal is notable because it will mark John Ternus's debut as Apple's new chief executive, stepping into the leadership role for this major product launch.
A Denny's franchisee that operated multiple restaurants across Minnesota and Wisconsin abruptly closed all of its locations earlier this month. The closures were confirmed by Fast Company, though the exact number of affected stores and reasons for the shutdown were not fully detailed.
Read the Docs disclosed that in mid-to-late June 2026 it suffered its largest-ever DDoS attack, with traffic peaking at roughly 5.5 million requests per minute—about 100 times normal levels—and lasting nearly ten days. The attack used millions of distributed IP addresses across many networks, including residential and hosting providers, and randomized HTTP headers and TLS fingerprints to evade detection while specifically targeting endpoints that bypass caching.
The US Commerce Department is distributing $300 million in CHIPS Act funding equally among D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Quantinuum, giving each $100 million while also acquiring minority ownership stakes in the companies. The money targets hardware manufacturing challenges like cryogenics, semiconductor fabrication, ion traps, and photonics rather than quantum software development.
Hello Games' Cosmos update for No Man's Sky lets any pilot exit their ship in deep space, not just those flying corvette-class vessels. Players can now leave their ship at any moment via the Quick Menu and move freely using an upgraded jetpack system.
The author has rebuilt an AI-generated code comment detector, previously trained on private data with an unstable foundation, using only public data and a more solid architecture. The new tool runs entirely in the browser, processes pasted text locally without sending it to a server, and offers an interactive interface that highlights which text features drive its human-vs-robot judgment.
A geospatial artificial intelligence firm analyzed 72 of the world's largest cities to assess how well each is positioned to withstand climate-related risks such as heat, flooding, and extreme weather. The resulting ranking places some well-known cities in unexpectedly low or high positions relative to public perception.
At the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator told CNBC that AI and data center companies have not adequately communicated the advantages of their technology to the public. He argued that community opposition stems less from data centers themselves and more from broader anxiety about the rapid pace of technological change and its uncertain effects on people's lives and children's futures.
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