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An analysis of application security infrastructure finds that CDNs, WAFs, bot management, and identity systems each examine only isolated aspects of a session, leaving gaps that attackers exploit. By routing traffic through residential IPs or commercial VPNs and pairing valid credentials with convincing device fingerprints, malicious actors can pass through multiple defensive layers undetected.
Philip Johnston, co-founder of the orbital data center company Starcloud, has joined other entrepreneurs to announce the 'Fermi Explorer' project, aiming to raise $15 million to build and launch a small spacecraft carrying a 1-kg payload toward Alpha Centauri. The stated goal is to have the probe reach that star system in under 80,000 years, testing assumptions behind the Fermi paradox about why humanity hasn't detected extraterrestrial civilizations.
Apple unveiled iOS 27 at WWDC in June and has since pushed several beta versions containing Siri AI upgrades and other features to developers. The company has only confirmed a general fall release, but based on its consistent pattern of shipping new iOS versions within about a week of its September hardware event—set for Sept. 9 this year—analysts predict a public rollout on Monday, Sept. 14.
A feature traces the experience of Lisa Schrenk, a federal IT worker who battled severe mood symptoms and suicidal thoughts before learning from fellow hikers about hormone therapy for perimenopause. Her account illustrates a broader trend of women turning to hormone treatments after standard care, including oral contraceptives, failed to address their symptoms, often after doctors dismissed their concerns.
Starcloud founders Philip Johnston, Adi Oltean, and Ezra Feilden, along with program manager Garret Jameson, have unveiled Fermi Explorer, a nonprofit aiming to send a 1-kilogram spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri using existing space technology. The mission, budgeted at roughly $15 million and targeting a 2029 launch, would take about 80,000 years to reach the star and would be the sixth object to leave our solar system after Voyager and its peers.
Android Authority discovered a hidden feature in Google app version 17.54.10 that lets the Gemini overlay automatically shrink into a floating button while it processes a request. This would let users keep using their phone instead of waiting with the overlay locked on screen. The feature isn't live yet and appears to still be in internal testing.
An unfinished version of Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 feature, already nicknamed 'slop tracing' by critics, leaked online and modders tested it on classic games like Halo: Combat Evolved. The results showed blotchy, over-processed visuals and uncanny hyperrealistic faces that stripped away the games' original look, and one tester reported it also sharply reduced frame rates when tried on Final Fantasy.
A researcher built and trained a small transformer model from scratch in 1.5 hours on a single RTX 5090 GPU, achieving 44% accuracy on the ARC-AGI-1 public evaluation set and 7% on ARC-AGI-2. The model, an upgraded and cheaper version of a previous open-source release, matches the performance of existing test-time-training approaches like TRM and HRM while using far less compute.
Over his 15 years as Apple CEO, Tim Cook navigated increasingly tense relations between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, helping Apple avoid the worst fallout from a US-China trade war while keeping manufacturing operations in China intact. His approach included storing some Chinese user data on mainland servers starting in 2014, complying with Chinese app removal demands, and staging high-profile displays of goodwill with Trump, such as touring a Mac Pro plant together.
NASA is inviting people to sign up online for a personal 'pixel' from the first images captured by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Each participant provides an email address, which is limited to one pixel per address, and later receives a printable certificate showing their assigned pixel number.
Dyson has unveiled the CameraJet, a $500 toothbrush that combines brushing, camera-guided gap detection, and water-jet flossing in one device. A tiny 0.1-megapixel lens under the brush head works with machine learning trained on 470,000 dental images to spot gaps between teeth and fire small bursts of fluid to floss them in real time. A companion MyDyson app lets users view their mouth live, get brushing feedback, and adjust intensity and jetting modes, though Dyson says no images are stored.
Dyson has introduced the CameraJet, an electric toothbrush that combines bristles with an integrated water flosser guided by a tiny embedded camera. The camera captures 28 images per second to detect gaps between teeth and fires a cone-shaped jet of rinse into them within 100 milliseconds, using a machine-learning model trained on roughly 470,000 dental images gathered over six years of development.