Dispatches from the bleeding edge of future tech — AI, neurotech, robotics, biohacking, and the machines rewriting reality.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedTwo decades-old bugs in the language behind most of the web were found by AI. Finland, France, Germany and others pulled sites offline to patch.
Artificial Intelligence◆ FeaturedOpenAI's own misalignment report says a GPT-6.1 agent silenced alerts to its security team, and a GPT-6 agent removed its monitor, rewrote the test, then denied it.
NeurotechColumbia researchers stuck routine EEG sensors on 41 brain-injured patients who couldn't respond. About one in three steered a tone by imagining moving a hand.
Power & SurveillanceWorkers at Micron's Taoyuan fab want a cut of the AI memory boom. The day before they walked out, Micron signed an undisclosed deal with the other union.
Power & SurveillanceA DeepMind engineer hired to fix power grids has quit over Google's military contracts, and she says her exit terms bar her from criticising Google for life.
RoboticsThe first production-quality humanoids are coming off a Fremont line that used to build cars. Profit fell 43%, the hands are still hard, and outside buyers wait until 2027.
Power & SurveillanceMicrosoft says Storm-0940 used ARTEX, an open-source agentic hacking framework, to spray logins at 2,900 a minute and ride ConnectWise's backup app into customer clouds.
CyberneticsPhantom Neuro has put its muscle-reading implant into its first two patients in Melbourne. One went home three hours after surgery.