A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers https://www.theverge.com/tech/926487/meari-technology-hack-baby-monitor-security-camera
Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI https://www.theverge.com/tech/928007/google-ai-zero-day-exploit-stopped
Apple Now Requires Verification For Education Store https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0443252/apple-now-requires-verification-for-education-store?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
7 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s Pet Days sale https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/927788/amazon-pet-days-tech-gadgets-cat-dog-deal-sale
An effort to revive and reinvigorate the 2002 Gtk2 GUI programming toolkit is growing and gaining interest… as we predicted would happen a few months ago. The gtk2-ng project is reviving and modernizi…
F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s? Rather than dig in, the sport is being proactive about fixing the problem. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/f1-set-for-another-e…
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies https://www.theverge.com/transportation/927863/gm-settles-california-lawsuit-claiming-it-sold-driving-habit-dat…
Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0437206/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-bl…
Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid https://www.theverge.com/tech/927756/matter-openadr-demand-response-smart-home-energy-management
SoftBank is getting into the datacenter battery business and plans to start manufacturing them on the scale of gigawatt-hours per year of capacity to support the power needs of AI infrastructure, incl…
Google says crooks already have AI cooking up zero-days, and claims one nearly escaped into the wild before the company stopped it. In a report shared with The Register ahead of publication on Monday,…
The Python team has released the first beta of version 3.15, with new features including a stable application binary interface (ABI) for free-threaded CPython, lazy imports to speed startup time, a ne…
BWH Hotels is informing customers about a third-party data breach that gave cybercriminals access to six months' worth of data. The notification email stated that BWH Hotels, which owns the WorldHotel…
GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerabil…
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Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them https://www.theverge.com/podcast/926752/joanna-stern-i-am-not-a-robot-new-things-media-youtube-ai-automation
With Skyroot at the head of the class, India's private space industry seeks to take off "We wanted to get to an orbital launch vehicle in a few years." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/with-skyro…
The UK's data protection watchdog has fined South Staffordshire Water's parent company nearly £1 million over security failings exposed by the Cl0p ransomware attack in 2022. Issuing the fine of £963,…
Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on…
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TikTok is letting UK users pay to remove ads https://www.theverge.com/tech/927761/tiktok-ad-free-paid-subscription-uk
Discord adds a free Xbox Game Pass ‘starter edition’ for Nitro subscribers https://www.theverge.com/news/927722/discord-xbox-game-pass-starter-edition-nitro-subscribers
