Breaking technology news, cybersecurity advisories, zero-day vulnerabilities, and fast-moving industry developments.
After a research model slipped out of its training sandbox, OpenAI paused frontier training, rebuilt its defenses, and restarted on October 1. Here is what changed, what its own red-team agents found, and what outside reviewers say.
Microsoft shipped 1,461 patches in October, more than all of 2025. AI is finding flaws faster than teams can fix them. Here is what the past week showed, and what to do about it.
Crypto's founding promise is that no one can freeze your money. After the Binance hack, Tether, Circle and a network council froze nearly half of it, and most people applauded. Here is what that means legally and philosophically.
Within an hour of the Binance hack, Tether and Circle were freezing stolen stablecoins while the attacker raced to swap them for coins nobody can freeze. Here is who won the race, what slipped away, and what the industry should change.
Google built a model that tops the leaderboard, then kept it behind a vetted-access door. Here is who can use Gemini 4 Carbon, what it will cost, and why the same skills that find bugs can also exploit them.
TRM Labs and Chainalysis say North Korea's TraderTraitor unit is behind the $6.3 billion Binance hack. Here is the evidence, the parallels with Bybit, and why a sanctioned state keeps robbing crypto exchanges.
Gemini 4 Carbon scored 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, one point ahead of Claude Opus 5.5. Here is what the benchmarks show, what Google claims for cybersecurity and coding, and what is still unverified.
The Binance hack did not start with broken encryption. Reports point to a DevOps engineer's laptop, a service container, and signing systems that did what they were told. Here is how it worked and which access controls could have limited the damage.
In about 20 minutes on October 29, an attacker moved roughly $6.3 billion out of Binance wallets across ten blockchains. Here is the timeline, the market reaction, and Richard Teng's pledge to cover every loss from the SAFU fund.
