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Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall

Adversaries injected malicious prompts into legitimate AI tools at more than 90 organizations in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. Every one of those compromised tools could read data, and none of them could rewrite a firewall rule. The autonomous SOC agents shipping…

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Netflix Has Found the Cast For Its ‘Gundam’ Movie

Plus, filming begins on 'Man of Tomorrow'.

Metro by T-Mobile Is Ready to Give Way More for Your Money, Free Galaxy A17 5G and Get iPhone 16e at No Cost

Free Galaxy smartphone or iPhone at no cost, five-year price guarantee, and fast unlimited 5G come in prepaid form with Metro.

Apple: ‘Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to Become Apple CEO’

Apple Newsroom, with a veritable “boom”: Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer effective on September 1, 2026. The…

Marvel Studios Is Bringing ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ to Comic-Con 2026

The studio will reportedly return to Hall H in San Diego this July, and there's only one movie on the schedule.

DF Paraphernalia: T-Shirts and Hoodies Are Back

Daring Fireball t-shirts and hoodies are back. Order now, and we’ll start printing shirts at the end of this week and shipping them out next week. Go ahead and place your order now, while I gather my thoughts about today’s Apple leadership news. ★

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Dhan Parent Raise Financial Acquires Trading Platform Stratzy

Fintech unicorn Raise Financial Services has acquired algo-trading platform Stratzy in a cash-and-stock deal. However, the parent of stock trading…

Google could team up with Marvell to build new AI chips for inference

Google is reportedly in talks with Marvell Technology to co-develop a new… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Amap debuts quadruped robot Tutu at Beijing humanoid half-marathon

Amap, Alibaba’s mapping platform, debuted its quadruped robot Tutu at the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon. The company said Tutu is designed to guide visually impaired users through complex open environments without preset routes or remote control, and demonstrat…

African proverb: “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground” — and in a world that worships youth, we’re burning more libraries than ever

In our race to embrace everything new and young, we're systematically erasing centuries of hard-won wisdom that lives only in the minds of those we've deemed too old to matter.

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AGILINK Launches OmniHand 3 Series, Ships Over 8,000 Dexterous Hands

AGILINK, a spin-off from AGIBOT, has unveiled its OmniHand 3 series of dexterous robotic hands, including a sub-$150 lightweight model and a 5kg-payload flagship, with over 8,000 units already deployed in industrial settings.

How Bonkers Corner Bootstrapped Its Way To A ₹195 Cr Streetwear Brand

Shubham Gupta didn’t go “Bonkers” when it all started. Rather, his poised approach helped his bespoke streetwear brand set a…

‘Community Letter From Tim’

Tim Cook, in a letter addressed, simply, “To the Apple community”: For the past 15 years I’ve started just about every morning the same way. I open my email and I read notes I received the day before from Apple’s users all over the world. You share little pieces of your lives wit…

Cash App is targeting a new kind of customer: 6-12 year olds

Tech companies are constantly on the hunt for new customers, and Cash App, the fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, believes it has found a promising new demographic: children. The company, which already offers financial services to teens, said this week that it is expan…

Apple’s Annual Environmental Progress Report

Apple Newsroom: In its annual Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple marked progress toward Apple 2030, the company’s ambitious goal to be carbon neutral across its entire footprint by the end of this decade. Apple’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2025 remain down over …

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Making the Most Pick-Proof Lock Yet

Throughout the centuries the art of lock-making and lock-picking have been trapped in a constant struggle, with basic lock designs being replaced by ever more complex ones that seek to …read more

How to hire people who are better than you

If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?

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The Security Architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflow

In this article, we will look at how GitHub built a security architecture that assumes the agent is already compromised.

EP211: How the JVM Works

We compile, run, and debug Java code all the time. But what exactly does the JVM do between compile and run?

Growing Aluminium-Copper Alloy Crystals Using Hydrogen

Having molten aluminium interact with atmospheric water forms a source of hydrogen which can be rather problematic if you’re trying to cast aluminium parts. As the molten metal cools down, …read more

Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts

APRs is an amateur radio protocol allowing the exchange of short packets of data. It’s commonly used to transmit a GPS position, though it can find other applications. The Flipper …read more

Why Some S3 Videocards Have a Brightness Issue

Once a pioneer in videocards, S3’s legacy is today mostly found in details like texture compression as well as the strong presence of S3-branded videocards in the retro-computing world. There’s …read more

Cyberdeck Build Gets Closer To Regular Laptop Than Most

Cyberdecks are typically reminiscent of weird computers in futuristic sci-fi films, moreso than the computers of today. The cool thing about cyberdecks, though, is you get to build them however …read more