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Security researchers warn 200,000 MCP servers are vulnerable to command injection
AI Cybersecurity

Security researchers warn 200,000 MCP servers are vulnerable to command injection

Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol as the open standard for AI agent-to-tool communication. OpenAI adopted it in March 2025. Google DeepMind followed....

Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform
AI Tech & Business

Meta acquires robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid platform

Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup specializing in whole-body robot control models and tactile sensors, as it pushes deeper into humanoid r...

Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial
AI

Shivon Zilis Emerges as Key Figure in Musk v. Altman Trial

As the first week of the Musk v. Altman trial concludes, Shivon Zilis has emerged as a central behind-the-scenes figure in OpenAI's early years. Zilis, a longti...

ChatGPT Images 2.0 Sees Strong Adoption in India, Mixed Global Response
AI

ChatGPT Images 2.0 Sees Strong Adoption in India, Mixed Global Response

India has emerged as the largest user base for ChatGPT Images 2.0 since its launch last week, according to OpenAI. The company said users in the country are usi...

AI Discovery Reveals DNA Is More Accessible Inside Cells Than Previously Thought
AI

AI Discovery Reveals DNA Is More Accessible Inside Cells Than Previously Thought

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes and the Arc Institute have used a new AI-powered computational method to challenge a long-standing assumption about how DNA i...

OnePlus and Nothing Raise Smartphone Prices in India Amid Ongoing RAM Crisis
Tech & Business

OnePlus and Nothing Raise Smartphone Prices in India Amid Ongoing RAM Crisis

Smartphone price hikes have hit the OnePlus 15 and Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, among others, in India, as manufacturers respond to the ongoing RAM crisis. Motorola...

T-Mobile Revenue Up 10.6% in Q1 as CEO Dances Around Deutsche Telekom Merger Reports
Tech & Business Infrastructure

T-Mobile Revenue Up 10.6% in Q1 as CEO Dances Around Deutsche Telekom Merger Reports

T-Mobile reported first-quarter revenue of $23.1 billion, up 10.6 percent year over year, but attention during the earnings call focused on reports that the car...

Apple Stock Rises After Q2 2026 Earnings Report
Tech & Business

Apple Stock Rises After Q2 2026 Earnings Report

Apple's stock rose as much as 5.35% in after-hours trading following the release of its second fiscal quarter 2026 earnings report. The stock closed at $271.35 ...

Apple Warns Mac Mini and Mac Studio Shortages Could Last Several Months
Tech & Business

Apple Warns Mac Mini and Mac Studio Shortages Could Last Several Months

Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company's second fiscal quarter 2026 earnings call that the Mac mini and Mac Studio could be hard to get for months to come. ...

Minnesota passes first-in-nation law banning AI nudification apps
Policy AI

Minnesota passes first-in-nation law banning AI nudification apps

Minnesota has become the first U.S. state to pass a law banning nudification apps that use artificial intelligence to create fake sexualized images of real peop...

Attempt to Repeal Colorado's Right-to-Repair Law Fails in Committee
Policy

Attempt to Repeal Colorado's Right-to-Repair Law Fails in Committee

A Colorado bill that would have rolled back portions of the state's landmark right-to-repair law has been defeated in committee. SB26-090 failed on a 7-to-4 vot...

Bay Area Captures 45% of U.S. Seed Funding in 2025 as Capital Concentrates
Startups

Bay Area Captures 45% of U.S. Seed Funding in 2025 as Capital Concentrates

U.S. seed investment is surging, but the benefits are not spreading evenly across startup hubs. Crunchbase data shows that capital is concentrating in the San F...

Canonical infrastructure remains offline after sustained cross-border attack
Cybersecurity Infrastructure

Canonical infrastructure remains offline after sustained cross-border attack

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down. Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu...

French authorities detain 15-year-old suspected in government agency data breach
Cybersecurity

French authorities detain 15-year-old suspected in government agency data breach

French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of selling data stolen from France Titres, the government agency that issues and manages administrative...

Cybercrime Groups Exploit Vishing and SSO Trust in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks
Cybersecurity Tech & Business

Cybercrime Groups Exploit Vishing and SSO Trust in Rapid SaaS Extortion Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have identified two cybercrime groups carrying out rapid, high-impact attacks that operate almost entirely within SaaS environments wh...

cPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940 Allows Root Access
Cybersecurity

cPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass CVE-2026-41940 Allows Root Access

Security researchers at watchTowr Labs have disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel and WHM, a web hosting control panel platform tha...

Photo shows the city landscape of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates in the foreground with high-rise buildings and other buildings, while a black tower of smoke rises in the background beyond some hills after an explosion in the industrial zone caused by debris after interception of an Iranian drone by air defense on March 5, 2026.
Infrastructure

AWS stops billing Middle East customers as war damage repairs stretch for months

Amazon Web Services has suspended billing for customers in its Middle East cloud regions and warned that repairs to war-damaged data centers will take several m...

Nokia Sells Fixed Wireless Unit to Inseego in $30M Deal, Keeps 11% Stake
Infrastructure Tech & Business

Nokia Sells Fixed Wireless Unit to Inseego in $30M Deal, Keeps 11% Stake

Nokia has offloaded its Fixed Wireless Access customer premises equipment business to U.S. wireless broadband vendor Inseego. Nokia will receive an approximate ...

Toilet Maker Toto Rides AI Boom With Ceramics for NAND Chips
Infrastructure Tech & Business

Toilet Maker Toto Rides AI Boom With Ceramics for NAND Chips

Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto is benefiting from the artificial intelligence boom through its advanced ceramics division, which produces components used in ...