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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads
The Hacker News - 21 Aug 2026 01:52
The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded...
Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts
The Hacker News - 21 Aug 2026 01:29
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think ...
Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada
TechCrunch - 21 Aug 2026 00:23
Together, these permits would allow up to 8,000 robotaxis to be deployed over the next 12 months.
The COSMOSIS framework can ensure that Washington governs space with its complexity in mind.
Space News - 21 Aug 2026 13:00
Policy documents from both the White House and the Office of Space Commerce this summer acknowledge that space is a complex system, as to which forms of adaptive governance should [] The post The COSMOSIS framework can e...
Child safety experts are skeptical of OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens
Engadget - 21 Aug 2026 13:00
They say the company must prove it can be trusted before products like these get a pass.
What 72,000 Bodies at a Fence Revealed about Africa and Europe
Time - 21 Aug 2026 12:00
The waters of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean are full of the remains of those who perished while trying to reach Europe.
Robots running into walls go viral ahead of 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games
Mashable - 21 Aug 2026 11:51
Preparations for the World Humanoid Robot Games are underway, with clips of robots running into walls and falling over going viral.
China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux
ZDNet - 21 Aug 2026 11:18
The specialized Chinese version of Windows was already scheduled for retirement in February 2027, but now its end-of-life date has been moved up.
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch
The Register - 21 Aug 2026 11:14The Brains Who Powered Chinas Surprising AI Leap
Wall Street Journal - 21 Aug 2026 01:00It Looks Like HoverAirs Flying Gimbal Camera Already Got Banned in the U.S.
PetaPixel - 21 Aug 2026 23:57Queen bees have a disturbing way to survive pesticides
Science Daily - 21 Aug 2026 23:53
Honeybee queens exposed to pesticides can shift some of the contamination into their eggs, revealing a previously unknown survival strategy. The process may protect the queen while putting developing offspring, and poten...
ChatGPTs iPhone app gets a handy shortcut to attach recent photos more quickly
9 to 5 Mac - 21 Aug 2026 23:50
Users who rely on ChatGPT for quick visual searches can now add photos to a conversation more quickly with a new gesture. Heres how.
The CosmoQuest Satellite Will Listen to the Early Universe From the Far Side of the Moon
Universe Today - 21 Aug 2026 23:33
A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the un...
The CosmoCube Satellite Will Listen to the Early Universe From the Far Side of the Moon
Universe Today - 21 Aug 2026 23:33
A tiny UK-developed satellite, roughly the size of a small carry-on suitcase, could help answer one of the biggest questions in cosmology: what happened in the roughly 150 million years of cosmic dark ages, before the un...
Tooth count may predict survival after pancreatic cancer surgery
Science Daily - 21 Aug 2026 23:29
Pancreatic cancer patients with at least 21 natural teeth survived nearly two years longer after surgery than those with fewer teeth in a study of 339 people. Researchers suspect tooth loss may reflect decades of inflamm...
The Unlikely Place at the Center of Chinas AI Boom
Wired - 21 Aug 2026 23:25
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
TikTok Settles With U.S. Over Child Privacy Concerns for $400 Million
The New York Times - 21 Aug 2026 23:24
The Justice Department resolved a lawsuit that accused the social media company of illegally gathering childrens information.
5 Groundbreaking Personal Computers That Defined The '70s
BGR - 21 Aug 2026 23:17
The 1970s was a period that saw astonomical technological growth, and computers were no exception to that rule.
Teslas Door Handles Lead to Its Biggest Recall Yet
Wired - 21 Aug 2026 23:10
A Chinese agency says the two recalls affecting some 3 million vehicles can mostly be fixed by over-the-air updates-but they will also require physical warning stickers and camera-related updates.
Anthropics Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
TechCrunch - 21 Aug 2026 23:07
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
Slashdot - 21 Aug 2026 23:00
Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, has imposed a six-month moratorium on "major electric utility infrastructure" in its latest attempt to delay a proposed $1.2 billion University of Michigan-Los Alamos data center tha...