Reddit signals ominous upcoming “changes” for old.reddit.com

Old.reddit.com’s days appear to be numbered. Reddit has strayed from saying that it will shutter the website, which many long-time Redditors prefer for its layout, navigation, and fewer feed recommendations. In a blog post today, Reddit made a vague statement about upcoming “changes” to Old Reddit: Read full article Comments Powered by WPeMatico

August 5, 2026
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Google’s AI shake-up: DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

Google got a slow start with generative AI after seemingly being caught flat-footed by Microsoft’s Copilot reveal. What a difference a few years make. Now, Google is at the forefront of AI development (for better or worse), but new cracks are beginning to show. The company’s string of high-profile personnel departures continues, and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has now said he will hand off day-to-day responsibilities to take on an…

August 5, 2026
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The Pixel 11’s “glow” feature is actually called HiLight—here’s what it does

Google will reveal the Pixel 11 series later this month, but leaks and teasers so far have painted a picture of phones that have barely changed since last year. One notable exception seems to be the illuminated dot from some of the teasers. This has been rumored as “Pixel Glow,” but a new leak all but confirms a different (and less interesting) name. Say hello to HiLight. A post on…

August 4, 2026
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Tim Cook passes the baton in Apple’s Q3 2026 earnings call

Apple saw an excellent and better-than-anticipated Q3 2026 in terms of iPhone sales, but its revenue for services—like Apple TV, Apple Music, AppleCare, or iCloud—slipped downward, disappointing experts who were hoping for more. Further, fears about memory prices and supply constraints slightly soured reception to what could have otherwise been a slightly positive but business-as-usual quarter. That’s the key takeaway from the company’s Q3 2026 earnings call today. Read full…

August 1, 2026
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Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said Thursday. The attacks are coming from TA488, a tracking name for a group working on behalf of the Kremlin, Proofpoint researchers said Thursday. Proofpoint and the National Security Agency jointly warned last week that the group, also tracked as Laundry Bear…

August 1, 2026
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Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google’s Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform’s open nature. Still, the restrictions will be a big change, and there are still some unanswered questions. An issue that has come up repeatedly in the run-up to verification is what will happen to devs who can’t verify because of where they live….

July 31, 2026
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Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday, are the second revelation in 10 days that AI models from the world’s wealthiest providers have trespassed into protected networks, an offense that, in more traditional hacking scenarios, could land the human behind the keyboard…

July 31, 2026
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Mythos uncovers crypto weaknesses that went unknown for years

Anthropic is hailing the results of two cryptographic problems it threw at its Mythos AI security model that found weaknesses in the mathematical problems underpinning the robustness of two algorithms. At the moment, it’s hard to know how much of the company’s reporting is marketing hype, but the findings are still worth paying attention to because they could signal important advances in breaking cryptography that’s crucial to privacy and security….

July 29, 2026
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Google’s “privacy-preserving” age verification system is coming to the Play Store

Governments around the world are suddenly very keen on online age verification requirements. In some places, this takes the form of ID requirements to access adult content, but several US states have also focused on app stores. With these laws now going into effect, Google has announced an expansion of its beta Play Age Signals API, which it claims will allow developers to confirm user ages without impinging on privacy….

July 29, 2026
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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

Last week’s unprecedented security event in which two OpenAI security hacking models trespassed into the network of fellow AI company Hugging Face was enabled by exploiting one or more zero-day vulnerabilities in Artifactory, JFrog, the product’s developer, said Monday. In an incident mimicking a dystopian sci-fi novel, two OpenAI models broke out of the restricted environment meant to keep them from accessing the Internet during an internal test, the AI…

July 28, 2026
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