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Autonomous Technologies Group, a Y Combinator-backed AI lab building frontier reasoning systems for financial markets, has posted openings for engineers via its careers page. The company's flagship product, Autonomous, is described as an agentic wealth strategist that applies these AI systems to personal finance and investing.
Broadcom is rolling out an initiative called TrueSource under its Tanzu division to vet and secure open-source components used alongside its platform, covering Spring, RabbitMQ, and various Java, Python, and Node.js libraries. Tanzu VP Purnima Padmanabhan said the company builds and curates these artifacts itself, ensuring they meet a reference architecture and remain supportable, while a VMware spokesperson added that Broadcom will contribute fixes upstream and defer to community maintainers as the ultimate source of truth for projects it doesn't directly maintain.
Geologists have identified a long-dormant supervolcano beneath England as the origin of the Kinnekulle tephra, a volcanic ash layer found across parts of Europe. The discovery resolves a decades-old mystery about the source of this widespread ash deposit, which had puzzled scientists studying the region's geological history.
Microsoft has identified a new ClickFix-style social engineering campaign called TerminalFix, which uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts to trick users into pasting malicious commands into Windows Terminal or PowerShell. Once executed, the command triggers a multi-stage attack chain designed to give attackers a persistent foothold inside enterprise systems.
A new interactive chart maps how Apple's interface guidelines have shifted across five editions—1982, 1987, 1992, 2008, and today—showing the relative space devoted to topics like menus, icons, windows, and accessibility. Each edition is rendered at equal height, with ribbon width indicating topic share and color coding whether a category held steady, expanded, reshaped, arrived, or dissolved between editions.
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by 22 states, filed suit against Amazon on Monday alleging the company secretly inflated prices in its Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Display ad auctions for more than seven years. The complaint says Amazon told over 500,000 small and medium businesses they'd pay just a penny above the next-highest bid in a 'second-price' auction, but from 2019 quietly inserted a hidden 'soft reserve price' using a fabricated bidder to push winning advertisers to pay their full bid instead.
In its trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed new court documents claiming an initial forensic review of former engineer Chang Liu's MacBook found he used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his OpenAI work and ran simulations with it. Apple also alleges Liu knew about his unauthorized cloud access, that OpenAI colleagues were aware of it, and that Liu instructed a colleague to destroy evidence once he learned of Apple's internal probe, with the colleague agreeing to comply.
The FDA has designated a recall of Mild Guacamole and Salsa Dips sold at Whole Foods Market as Class I, its most severe category, due to possible salmonella contamination. The recall, initiated August 7, covers 10 product varieties and nearly 13,000 units with best-by dates between August 7 and August 16, 2026, and is tied to contaminated jalapenos distributed nationwide by a Mexican supplier.
The Department of Defense has expanded its GenAI.mil platform to include secure, customized versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok, giving its roughly 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools built for military use. The portal, which launched last year with Google's Gemini, already has more than 1.7 million users and shields data from the collection practices typical of consumer AI products.
A security researcher who previously downplayed the value of guardrails now argues they are essential, citing recent high-profile security incidents as evidence. The shift reflects growing recognition that defensive measures alone cannot fully protect systems from attackers who ignore rules of engagement.
Google confirmed that Device Help, a Gemini feature that lets users describe what they want their phone to do and have Gemini adjust settings automatically, isn't limited to the Pixel 11 series. A Google employee showed the feature working on other Pixel devices running Android 17, and said support will expand to additional devices over time.
A review of Dave Green's live-action/animated hybrid 'Coyote vs. Acme' describes it as a heartfelt homage to classic Looney Tunes humor. The film blends real actors with animated characters, reportedly capturing the subversive, chaotic spirit of the original cartoons despite the project's uncertain release status.