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Brain implants let paralyzed man make music with his thoughts
A diving accident at age 16 left Buckwalter paralyzed from the chest down. In 2024, he enrolled in a Caltech brain-computer interface study and underwent a craniotomy to have six Blackrock Neurotech chips implanted in his motor cortex.
Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Code source, raising security concerns
The exposure traces back to version 2.1.88 of the @anthropic-ai/claude-code package on npm, which was published with a 59.8MB JavaScript source map intended only for internal debugging. The map file enabled the reconstruction of roughly 512,000 lines of TypeScript code powering Claude Code’s orchestration layer and CLI. Within hours of…
Crimson Desert hits 4 million sales despite rocky launch
Crimson Desert, which was one of our Most Anticipated Games of 2026, arrived to review scores of between 60 and 70 in most cases. It also held a disappointing Steam user rating of Mostly Positive. The failure to meet expectations resulted in developer Pearl Abyss’ shares falling almost 29%.
Oracle layoffs could reach 30,000 as company doubles down on AI
The company declined to comment on the total scope of the layoffs, though some estimates suggest they could affect as many as 20,000 to 30,000 workers. Oracle employed about 162,000 people worldwide as of the end of May.
Tesla admits that remote humans can sometimes take control of its robotaxis
The revelation comes from a March 26 response to Markey’s investigation into how autonomous vehicle companies use remote assistance operators.
You can finally change your Gmail address without losing everything
Starting Tuesday, Gmail account holders in the US can change the usernames that appear on their email addresses without losing the address itself. The change affects accounts used to log into mail, photos, Google Drive, and other services.
Hypervisor-based cracks are breaking Denuvo protections in hours
In recent years, Denuvo has managed to fight widespread PC piracy thanks to its hard-to-crack anti-tamper technology. However, Denuvo’s aura of invincibility has recently melted away like snow in the sun. A new virtualization-based method is apparently good enough to crack even the latest triple-A game releases, although the cracks…
Iran threatens attacks on Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, and other US tech firms in the Middle East
Days after Iran warned that offices and infrastructure belonging to US companies involved in military technology in the Middle East would be targeted, the IRGC updated its threat on Telegram.
AI can clone open-source software in minutes, and that's a problem
Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles that underpin much of the…
What Ever Happened to Napster? From MP3 Rebellion to Streaming Blueprint
Napster made digital music feel limitless for the first time, then vanished in lawsuits, rebrands, and sales. Its name faded, but its ideas still shape how the world listens.
AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history
The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation,” would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.
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