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AI Summary

  • The Pentagon is making significant investments in AI deployment on classified networks, partnering with tech giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS, signaling a major push in defense technology.
  • Cybersecurity remains a critical concern as Ubuntu services experienced outages due to a DDoS attack, and hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, impacting millions of websites.
  • AI development and its applications continue to expand rapidly, with Google's Gemini AI reaching vehicles, Stripe enabling autonomous AI agents to use its digital wallet, and OpenAI enhancing ChatGPT security.
  • The competitive landscape of AI companies is intensifying, with news of Anthropic's potentially massive valuation round and Elon Musk's admission that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models.
  • Hardware and consumer tech face ongoing challenges, including Apple's looming chip shortage despite record sales and the ongoing production hurdles for products like Mac Minis and Rivian's Georgia factory.

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  • This accessory can snap a Steam Controller to your phone — or almost anything else an hour ago by Jay Peters
    Gadgets, Gaming, News, PC Gaming

    Valve's new Steam Controller goes on sale on Monday for $99, and accessories-maker Mechanism will be ready. As far as we know, Mechanism's new Basegrip is the very first way to attach a Steam Controller to your phone - as well as Mechanism's lineup of accessories, including mounts for hanging handhelds and gamepads on the Ikea Skadis pegboard or just about anywhere else. The Steam Controller mount will go on sale the same day as the controller, since Valve gave Mechanism early access to the design. When the Basegrip is paired with Mechanism's phone mount, the company suggests that you can

  • Players from the NBA, NFL, and MLB call for a ban on betting ‘unders’ an hour ago by Emma Roth
    Entertainment, News, Sports

    The unions backing professional NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and MLS players are calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to ban prediction market platforms from allowing users to bet on a player's underperformance or injury, Sports Business Journal reports. In their letter, the unions cite the need for "appropriate regulations" to protect athletes and their families from "abusive and harassing behavior." The unions wrote the letter in response to the CFTC's request for comment on the regulation of prediction markets, such as those operated by Kalshi and Polymarket. In addition to asking for a ban on "under" bets, the unions

  • Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help an hour ago by Stevie Bonifield
    Linux, News, Security, Tech

    Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called "Copy Fail" that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. The exploit, publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday, uses a Python script that works across all of the vulnerable Linux distributions, requiring "no per-distro offsets, no version checks, no recompilation," according to Theori, the security firm that uncovered it. Ars Technica points out this blog post where DevOps engineer Jorijn Schrijvershof explains that what makes Copy Fail "unusually nasty" is the likelihood for it to go unnoticed by monitoring t … Read the full story at

  • Dreame’s rocket-powered car can do 0–60 in 0.9 seconds because you can just say things now an hour ago by Andrew J. Hawkins
    Electric Cars, News, Transportation

    The NEXT 01 JET Edition Car at the Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric vehicle with physically impossible-sounding performance specs, I immediately thought James Dyson was up to his old tricks again. Fortunately, I was wrong. This time the household appliance company trying its hand at super car design is Dreame (pronounced like "dreamy"), a little-known Chinese firm that has grand ambitions to become a

  • We just got a new reason to believe the Trump phone is real(ish) 2 hours ago by Dominic Preston
    Gadgets, Mobile, News, Phones, Policy, Politics, Tech

    Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time we've discovered a little more evidence that the phone is on its way to a release. Trump Mobile's T1 Phone has just passed another milestone on its slow road to release. The phone has received the little-known PTCRB certification, a first step toward being certified to work on major networks and be issued with IMEI numbers. You probably haven't heard of PTCRB certification - I hadn't until recently. It doesn't come up very often. It's


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