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us tech 2 2m ago 3 min read

Christopher Nolan Calls 'The Odyssey' Casting Backlash 'Irrelevant' Ahead of Release

Christopher Nolan brushed off months of criticism over his casting choices in 'The Odyssey,' telling The Telegraph that pre-release complaints are meaningless until people see the film. The backlash, which includes objections from Elon Musk and commentator Matt Walsh over Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy and Elliot Page playing a character invented by a different ancient poet, raises fair questions about fidelity to source material that Nolan hasn't really answered.

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us tech 6 1h ago 3 min read

AI Coding Assistants Are Inventing Fake Software Packages, and Hackers Are Weaponizing Them

AI coding tools sometimes hallucinate software package names that don't exist. Hackers have figured out they can register those fake names and stuff them with malware, waiting for developers to install them automatically. It's a new supply chain hole that existing security tools weren't built to catch.

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us tech 3 1h ago 3 min read

Bluesky Makes Toni Schneider's Interim CEO Job Permanent

Toni Schneider, who took over as Bluesky's interim CEO in March 2026 after founder Jay Graber stepped aside, is now officially the permanent chief executive. Graber moves to a Chief Innovation Officer role while Schneider pushes a plan to add private, Reddit-style communities to the platform later this year.

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us tech 3 2h ago 3 min read

Philips Confirms Firmware Update Bricked Hue Bridge Pro Hubs, Offers Free Replacements

A June firmware update permanently killed fewer than 100 Philips Hue Bridge Pro smart home hubs worldwide, and Signify is replacing every one free of charge, warranty or not. The catch: there's still no backup feature, so anyone hit has to rebuild their entire smart home setup from scratch by hand.

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us defense 7 Jun 22 1 min read

Passing CMMC Is a Snapshot. Staying Compliant Is the Hard Part.

The Pentagon's CMMC program went live November 10, 2025, and Phase 2 mandatory third-party certifications begin November 10, 2026. Thousands of defense contractors who cleared their initial assessment are now exposed to a quieter risk: the gap between passing once and proving continuous compliance every day after. That gap has legal teeth.

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us tech 6 2h ago 3 min read

OpenAI's Head of Safety Systems Departs Amid Research Team Overhaul

Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's head of safety systems since 2021, is leaving as the company folds safety oversight directly into its research division under new VP Mia Glaese. OpenAI says this puts safety closer to product decisions; skeptics will note it also means fewer independent checks on a team racing to ship models.

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us tech 5 3h ago 3 min read

OpenAI Hires Product Manager for Families as ChatGPT Use by Parents Nearly Doubles

OpenAI is recruiting a San Francisco product manager to build ChatGPT features for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting reported by TechCrunch. The move follows Sensor Tower data showing parent usage of ChatGPT nearly doubled year-over-year and comes as OpenAI faces lawsuits alleging the chatbot contributed to teen harm, including suicides.

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us tech 4 3h ago 3 min read

James Webb Telescope Zooms In On the Only Known Planet to Survive Its Star's Death

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-size planet orbiting a burned-out white dwarf, and found the system breaks the standard models for how planets should behave after their star dies. The planet sits closer to its dead star than physics says it should, and scientists still don't know why.

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us tech 7 3h ago 3 min read

AI Tool Uncovers 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug That Grants Any User Root Access

Nebula Security's AI bug-hunter VEGA found a use-after-free flaw, CVE-2026-43499, that's been sitting in the Linux kernel since 2011 and lets any logged-in user become root. It was patched upstream in April, but Ubuntu still listed several LTS releases as vulnerable as of early July 2026. Nebula has now published working exploit code, putting pressure on distros that haven't shipped the fix.

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us tech 2 4h ago 3 min read

Josh Allen Says Bills Were Right to Fire Sean McDermott and Promote Joe Brady

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen says the team's decision to move on from head coach Sean McDermott after nine seasons was 'necessary,' and that he had a direct hand in vetting Joe Brady's replacement. McDermott went 98-50 and made eight playoff appearances but never reached a Super Bowl, and the front office decided that record wasn't enough anymore.

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us tech 3 4h ago 3 min read

Fake 'Meta Verified' Warning Threatens Facebook Deletion, Tries to Steal Login Info

A phishing message impersonating Meta is telling Facebook users their accounts will be deleted over fake fraud and harassment claims. The scam relies on panic, a misspelled sender name and a suspicious PDF attachment, according to Fox News, and it fits a broader pattern of AI-assisted phishing scams flagged by Google.

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cn tech 5 4h ago 3 min read

China's BrainCo Pushes Wearable Brain Tech While Neuralink Sticks With Implants

China is betting on non-invasive, wearable brain-computer interfaces while Elon Musk's Neuralink keeps drilling into skulls. Beijing has already approved a minimally invasive implant for commercial use and named BCI a strategic priority, raising real questions about who leads the next tech frontier.

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us tech 7 5h ago 3 min read

AI Tool Finds 15-Year-Old Linux Root Bug, Patch Rollout Still Incomplete Months Later

A security firm's AI bug-hunting tool found a use-after-free flaw that let any logged-in user seize root access on Linux systems, a bug that sat unnoticed in the kernel since 2011. The flaw was patched upstream in April 2026, but Ubuntu was still listing several LTS versions as vulnerable or in-progress as of early July. The find shows AI can outperform humans at combing old code, and also shows how slowly the patching pipeline moves even after a fix exists.

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us tech 4 6h ago 3 min read

Samsung Confirms Galaxy Gallery Will Stop Syncing With Microsoft OneDrive on October 1

Samsung and Microsoft are shutting down the OneDrive backup feature built into Samsung's Gallery app, effective October 1, 2026. Some phones are already losing the sync option months early, and users need to manually download their photos before the cutoff or lose easy access to them from their devices.

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us tech 3 7h ago 3 min read

Startup Pitches Robotaxi Service Pods for City Curbs as Waymo Faces Questions Over Empty Cars Circling Atlanta

A Redwood City startup called Aseon Labs is building parking-space-sized robotic pods to clean, charge and inspect self-driving cars closer to where riders actually need them, cutting down on wasted 'deadhead miles.' The pitch lands as Atlanta residents posted video of dozens of empty Waymo vehicles circling their neighborhood for hours, with no explanation from the company on record.

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us tech 7 9h ago 3 min read

OpenAI's Head of Safety Systems Quits as Safety Teams Fold Under Research Leadership

Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's head of safety systems, is leaving the company following a reorganization that folded safety teams under research leadership. He is among multiple senior safety-focused figures to announce departures in a single week, at a moment when OpenAI itself admits its newest model displayed concerning misaligned behavior.

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cn tech 7 10h ago 4 min read

China's Tianwen-2 Probe Reaches Earth's Quasi-Moon Kamo'oalewa After 400-Day, 1-Billion-Kilometer Journey

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid probe reached Kamo'oalewa on July 2, 2026, capturing the first-ever close-up images of the tiny quasi-satellite from about 20 kilometers out. The mission aims to collect surface samples and return them to Earth in November 2027. If it succeeds, China joins Japan and the United States in the rare club of nations that have returned asteroid material.

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us tech 7 10h ago 3 min read

Google's Quantum Calibration Fix Uses Reinforcement Learning to Read Error-Correction Data Mid-Calculation

Since Google demonstrated that its quantum processor could recalibrate itself using error-correction data, researchers have published the technical mechanism behind it. The system uses reinforcement learning to distinguish random qubit errors from calibration drift without stopping the computation. The open question is whether this approach scales to the qubit counts required for practically useful algorithms.

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us tech 7 15h ago 3 min read

CISA Admits It Had No Incident Response Playbook When a Contractor Exposed Government Credentials on GitHub

The federal agency responsible for defending U.S. government networks had to write its own emergency response plan mid-crisis after a contractor employee posted sensitive credentials to a public GitHub repository. A journalist, not an internal process, caught the exposure. CISA has now published a postmortem acknowledging the gap.

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cn tech 8 15h ago 4 min read

China's State Rocket Company Catches a Booster Mid-Air at Sea, Plans Reuse by Year's End

Since our coverage of China's Long March 10B recovery on July 10, new details have emerged about the specific recovery method and its strategic implications. CASC used a tensioned cable net on an offshore vessel to snag the descending booster mid-air, a technique distinct from anything SpaceX or Blue Origin uses. The company says it intends to fly the same booster again before the end of 2026.

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us tech 7 16h ago 4 min read

Ransomware Negotiator Sentenced to 70 Months for Feeding Victims' Confidential Strategies to BlackCat Attackers

Angelo Martino was hired to help companies negotiate down ransomware payments. Instead, he fed their confidential positions to the criminals demanding the money and collected a cut of the inflated ransoms. A federal judge sentenced the 41-year-old Florida resident to 70 months in prison.

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