In the past three months, Donald Trump’s White House has reportedly used AI twice to effect regime change – once in its capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and more recently to help plan the strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The most recent strikes coincided with...
Leaked government-grade iPhone hacking tools now used to steal crypto and data from users
According to new technical analyses from Google and mobile security firm iVerify, Coruna's technical core comprises five complete exploit chains and 23 distinct iOS vulnerabilities that bypass most of the major software defenses Apple has shipped in versions 13 through 17.2.1, effectively turning a web page into a silent infection......
South Korea’s tax office lost millions in crypto after accidentally posting the wallet’s master key
South Korean authorities made a serious blunder as they sought to showcase their crackdown on online fraud and cybercrime. According to local reports, Seoul's National Tax Service (NTS) released a press statement detailing an on-site investigation targeting 124 high-profile tax fraud suspects. In the process, it also published a photo......
Apple unveils MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, refreshes MacBook Air with M5
The new MacBook Pro will be offered in 14-inch and 16-inch configurations, both featuring Liquid Retina XDR displays with up to 1600 nits of peak HDR brightness. Storage capacity starts at 1 TB for the M5 Pro model and 2 TB for the M5 Max variant. Read Entire Article
A rewritable hard drive made of DNA? Researchers say it’s possible
According to Li-Qun Gu, DNA is an extremely compact, stable package of information. Natural DNA strands encode the biological blueprints of all life on Earth but Mizzou researchers are exploring ways to repurpose molecular biology as a digital storage medium. Read Entire Article
Jolla Sailfish pitches a “European phone” for users wary of Google and Apple
Jolla's return to the smartphone market follows a turbulent decade during which the company nearly collapsed, pivoted to licensing its Sailfish OS platform, severed business ties with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, and later reorganized under the new corporate structure Jollyboys. The reset produced a device assembled in Salo,......
OpenAI revises Pentagon contract to curb mass surveillance, but critics warn of major loopholes
On X, Altman acknowledged that OpenAI should have taken more time to address the "super complex" issues surrounding privacy and data security before rushing to finalize the agreement with the Pentagon. He added that the company learned a valuable lesson from the controversy, one that will help guide better decision-making......
Qualcomm is getting ready for Wi-Fi 8 this year, 6G in 2029
Qualcomm announced a strategic coalition with numerous telecom operators and other technology companies to prepare for the global rollout of 6G. At MWC 2026, the partners established a roadmap aimed at launching commercial deployments beginning in 2029. Read Entire Article
ASML looks beyond EUV, plans new tools for larger chips and 3D packaging
The company's next moves include building machines for advanced chip packaging and exploring ways to produce even larger silicon dies, shifting ASML from its narrow role as the world's sole EUV supplier into a broader supplier of AI-era chipmaking tools. CTO Marco Pieters, who took over in October 2025 after a 40-year......
Those cheap Windows and Office keys might come from a federal crime
The US Department of Justice says 52-year-old Heidi Richards of Brandon, Florida, who ran Trinity Software Distribution, has been sentenced to 22 months in federal prison after a jury found her guilty of conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels. The court also ordered a $50,000...