Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s IT systems and, according to a Russian lawmaker and pro-Ukrainian hackers, was the result of a cyberattack, it was widely reported. The airline, Aeroflot, said it cancelled about 40 flights following a “technical failure.” An online departure board for Sheremetyevo airport showed dozens of others were delayed. The cancellations and delays hobbled traffic throughout…

Hot on the heels of a major ransomware group being taken down through an international law enforcement operation comes a new development that highlights the whack-a-mole nature of such actions: A new group, likely comprised of some of the same members, has already taken its place. The new group calls itself Chaos, in recognition of the .chaos name extension its ransomware stamps on files it has encrypted and the “readme.chaos[.]txt”…

A firmware update has killed key functionality for Echelon smart home gym equipment that isn’t connected to the Internet. As explained in a Tuesday blog post by Roberto Viola, who develops the “QZ (qdomyos-zwift)” app that connects Echelon machines to third-party fitness platforms, like Peloton, Strava, and Apple HealthKit, the firmware update forces Echelon machines to connect to Echelon’s servers in order to work properly. A user online reported that…

On Thursday, The Verge reported that OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 as early as August, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The report comes five months after CEO Sam Altman first laid out a roadmap for the next-generation AI model that would unify the company’s various AI capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in a post on X last week that the company plans to release GPT-5…

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on your computer, the results can be catastrophic. Two recent incidents involving AI coding assistants put a spotlight on risks in the emerging field of “vibe coding“—using natural language to generate and execute code through AI models without paying close attention…

Search is changing at a breakneck pace, with Google rolling out new AI features so quickly it can be hard to keep up. So far, these AI implementations are being offered in addition to the traditional search experience. However, Google is now offering a sneak peek at how it may use AI to change the good old-fashioned list of blue links. The company says its new Web Guide feature is…

At least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of Washington’s efforts to restrain Beijing’s high-tech ambitions. A Financial Times analysis of dozens of sales contracts, company filings, and multiple people with direct knowledge of the deals reveals that Nvidia’s B200 has become the most sought-after—and widely available—chip in a rampant…

Apple released the macOS 26 Tahoe public beta today, alongside the public betas for iOS, iPadOS, and other operating systems. The headliner this year is the new Liquid Glass aesthetic that Apple is introducing across its entire product lineup this year, and aside from that, there’s nothing coming to the Mac that feels quite as significant as the iPad’s new multi-window multitasking interface. But macOS remains Apple’s most powerful, most…

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle, will reportedly bring OpenAI’s total Stargate capacity under development to over 5 gigawatts. The data center has taken root in Abilene, Texas, a city of 127,000…

Government agencies and private industry have been under siege over the past four days following the discovery that a critical vulnerability in SharePoint, the widely used document-sharing app made by Microsoft, is under mass exploitation. Since that revelation, the fallout and the ever-increasing scope of the attacks have been hard to keep track of. What follows are answers to some of the most common questions about the vulnerability and the…