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Zero-Click Root on Pixel 10, Post-Quantum Crypto Goes Default, and YouTube Fights Deepfakes for Everyone

This week in tech felt like a pendulum swing between breakthrough and breach — and in several cases, both at once. Google's own security elite demonstrated they could achieve root access on a Pixel 10 with zero clicks using just five lines of exploit code. Erlang shipped a major

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Cerebras' $66 Billion Debut: Why the AI Chip Market Is No Longer a One-Horse Race

Last week, a company that nearly everyone in Silicon Valley had written off as "IPO roadkill" pulled off the most explosive debut of the year. Cerebras Systems — the chipmaker that dared to build an entire AI processor on a single silicon wafer — raised $5.5 billion in its

CopyFail Roots Every Linux, 5,000 Vibe-Coded Apps Leak Data, and Pwn2Own Drops 24 Zero-Days

It's one of those weeks where the headlines read like a cybersecurity thriller. A single 732-byte Python script can root virtually every Linux machine shipped since 2017. Thousands of applications built with AI coding tools are spilling corporate secrets onto the open web. And at Pwn2Own Berlin, researchers

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MIT's 20% Graduate Enrollment Drop: Inside the Crisis Choking America's Research Pipeline

MIT's 20% Graduate Enrollment Drop: Inside the Crisis Choking America's Research Pipeline The Massachusetts Institute of Technology — the institution that gave us the World Wide Web, radar, the first chemical synthesis of penicillin, and the foundations of modern artificial intelligence — is hemorrhaging graduate students. In a

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Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI, Anduril's $61B Defense Play, and Python's Great GC Reversal

The tech landscape this week delivered a sequence of developments that, taken together, paint a picture of an industry simultaneously racing forward and doubling back to fix its foundations. Anthropic has quietly overtaken OpenAI in enterprise adoption, a $5 billion defense tech round rewrote the fundraising record books, a geothermal

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Mistral's $14 Billion Play: How Europe's AI Challenger Is Winning Without Being the Best

The conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley says you need to build the best AI model to win the market. Paris-based Mistral AI has proven that thesis wrong — or at least incomplete. With a $14 billion valuation, $3.1 billion in total funding, and a rapidly growing roster of enterprise and

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Orbital AI Compute, DeepMind's Pointer Revolution, and the Open Source Supply Chain Under Siege

Every week, the boundaries between physical infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity grow thinner. This time, we're looking at a convergence of stories that paint a vivid picture of where the tech industry is heading — and the dangers lurking along the way. From data centers being planned for outer