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An anonymous security researcher has reconstructed and released a reverse-engineered version of Stuxnet's source code on GitHub, complete with build instructions. Stuxnet was the malware that sabotaged centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility by targeting Siemens industrial controllers while masking the damage from plant operators.
MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, is rolling out a subscription program called Membership that aims to convert casual viewers into paying fans centered on its on-air talent, including Chris Hayes, Stephanie Ruhle and Rachel Maddow. Network president Rebecca Kutler said the offering followed a survey of 18,000 people before finalizing the plan, which she discussed in an interview ahead of the launch.
Google Research and HHMI Janelia released MaleCNS v1.0, a dataset mapping over 166,000 neurons from a male fruit fly's brain and nervous system, built by converting millions of 2D images into 3D neural reconstructions. Developers quickly began using the model outside its intended scientific purpose, wiring its simulated neurons to control games like Doom and Super Mario 64, where sensory input from game frames drives neural activity that translates into player actions.
A career-focused article identifies 12 behavioral and situational cues—like being excluded from meetings or decisions—that suggest an employee's influence at work is declining. It pairs each warning sign with corrective strategies, including adopting AI tools and shifting from task execution to strategic contribution.
Google announced plans to invest $15 billion in AI infrastructure in Finland, expanding its data center footprint in the country. The move adds to a wave of similar large-scale investments by U.S. tech companies aiming to grow AI computing capacity outside the United States.
A self-taught maker spent eight months of spare time designing and constructing a wall lamp using laser-cut Plexiglas, LED strips, and wood paneling, despite having no prior woodworking or LED experience. The project began as an ambitious idea for a living-room art piece but was scaled back to a simpler bedroom lamp using beech wood to match existing furniture, intended as practice for a future, more elaborate build.
A historical piece revisits how Lotus Notes, launched in 1989, offered encryption, rich formatting, read receipts, and app-building tools years before equivalent standards like MIME or PGP existed for email. It traces the software's conceptual origins back to a 1973 University of Illinois project called PLATO Notes, built by a teenage programmer, David Woolley, to replace a chaotic open text file used for campus communication.
An investigation by Futurism found numerous Facebook accounts posting large volumes of AI-generated videos depicting graphic violence against babies and young children, including beatings, burning, starvation, and imprisonment. Despite the disturbing and clearly harmful nature of this content, Meta has done little to remove it, allowing the accounts and videos to persist and multiply across the platform.
Security researchers note that as MFA, conditional access and device trust make direct credential theft harder, attackers are shifting focus to account recovery workflows. Instead of stealing a user's second authentication factor, criminals are tricking service desk staff into resetting or reassigning it on their behalf.
A developer re-ran libsodium crypto benchmarks across native x86-64 code and several WebAssembly runtimes (Wasmer, WAVM, WAMR, Wasmtime, wasm2c) using builds from mid-2024, mid-2025 and mid-2026 to see whether WASM performance is genuinely improving over time. The results show Wasmer leading, with WAVM, WAMR and Wasmtime close behind, and WAVM's optimizer notably strong at speeding up baseline portable WASM without extra instruction extensions.
A CNET survey found that 52% of US adults would consider upgrading their smartphone mainly for longer battery life, while 55% cited price as their top motivator. The findings arrive just before Apple's Sept. 9 event, where the company is expected to unveil its first foldable phone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and Ultra models.
Defense startup Covenant announced it has emerged from stealth mode with $250 million raised across three funding rounds, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Lux, 8VC, Aleph and Lightspeed. The company opened a 105,000-square-foot factory in Dallas to build its Anthem long-range cruise missiles, aiming to produce 1,000 units in the first year starting in early 2027 and scaling to 5,000 annually.