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Daniel Vaughn's Huzzah turns the diff into the prompt itself, and points at a wider shift: prompts are leaving the chat and joining the codebase.
During Black Hat and Def Con week, an attacker posed as a crypto news conference organizer and used a weaponized Google Doc to try installing malware on the people who hunt hackers.
Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-linked hacking group, has been inside US civilian infrastructure for three years. A closed-door Times Square war game for insurance executives showed the country is far from absorbing a strike.
Canonical and UK Research and Innovation are funding a Bristol project to test whether machine translation of C into Rust can be verified well enough to ship in security-sensitive code.
Google's AI Overviews, the answer box above Search's blue links, gives whimsical safety advice for some nationalities and emergency-tone warnings for others.
The Republican Party has lost the local data center argument. The remedy it has chosen exposes a new kind of political dependency: the industry it freed now funds the politics of defending the buildout.
Gov. Josh Shapiro's Aug. 18 order ties Pennsylvania data center permits, a key sales-tax break, and grid curtailment priority to new energy, siting, workforce, and community standards.
AI cloud operator Nebius jumped 30%-plus after earnings the same week AI cloud firm CoreWeave locked in 2020-vintage Nvidia A100 chips through 2029, and an analyst argues $10T in idle capital just found a new home.
Cursor is now hosting code itself: Origin, an early-beta service that syncs two-way with GitHub, with launch partners including Vercel (preview deploys), Depot (builds), and Buildkite (CI).
Siemens and Reinhausen, the German power-transformer equipment maker, are jointly building a solid-state transformer — a compact, semiconductor-based alternative to traditional iron-core transformers — that delivers 800 V DC straight to GPU racks,
The Constitutional Council struck down the September ban on free-expression and privacy grounds, giving other EU courts a portable template to do the same.
Rick Manelius's 'AI;DR' (AI; Didn't Read) names the etiquette forming around senders who forward unedited AI prose. A self-described AI maximalist says he now flinches at it from people he respects.