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MIT master’s student Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Now in its ninth year, the highly competitive scholarship provides up to three years of financial support for graduate studies at Stanford University. Sunshine Jiang ’25Sunshine Jiang, from Hangzhou, China, graduated from MIT in 2025 with a bachelor’s degree as a double major in physics and electrical engineering and computer science, along with minors in mathematics and economics. She will receive her master of engineering degree this month and will start her PhD in computer science at Stanford School of Engineering this fall. Jiang researches…
Tecnoblog Is Mercury in retrograde over Brazil? Because sources there are giving Xbox a very hard time today. Brazilian regulator Anatel appears to have accidentally leaked images of the Xbox Elite Controller 3 that were then circulated by local tech site Tecnoblog and in turn picked up by The Verge. According to the specs making the rounds, this controller boasts some notable new features. There are two scroll wheels at the bottom that could be controlled by your thumbs. A new pairing button on the front appears to switch the…
OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly become so upset with Apple Inc. over its poor handling of the ChatGPT-Siri integration that it’s now exploring legal action against the company. A report by Bloomberg today said the company is dismayed that the partnership failed to acquire the new subscribers it hoped to gain, and has resorted to hiring an independent legal firm to explore its options. According to unnamed people familiar with the matter, the company could slap Apple with a lawsuit, or it could send the company a formal breach-of-contract notice without going to the courts immediately. The two companies first…
AI-assisted tooling makes specific intrusion phases faster and more precise. Reconnaissance is more systematic. Credential enumeration is more targeted. Lateral movement decisions, which path to take and which assets to prioritize, are increasingly guided by behavioral analysis on observed network data rather than slow manual trial and error.This is documented in real campaigns. In July 2025, Ukraine’s national CERT (CERT-UA) disclosed LAMEHUG, the first publicly documented malware to integrate a large language model directly into its attack flow.3 Attributed with moderate confidence to APT28 (Fancy Bear), LAMEHUG used an LLM to dynamically generate system reconnaissance commands, including hardware enumeration, process…
It’s rare that you can say a game will be the bestselling game of that year, and the likely Game of the Year winner, before it’s even released, let alone years in advance. But that’s where we’re at with Grand Theft Auto 6, which is set to come out this year, and if rumors are true, preorders for the game are just around the corner. Calling GTA 6 a highly anticipated game doesn’t do it justice. It’s been more than a decade since the release of GTA 5, and after multiple delays, the latest entry in the GTA franchise is on…
Razer has officially unveiled the 2026 Blade 18 today, and at the heart of all three configurations is an Intel Arrow Lake processor. I’m talking about the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, which features 24 cores, up to 5.5GHz clock speed (with boost), 36MB cache, and an onboard NPU that delivers up to 13 TOPS of compute power. Meet the next-gen Razer Blade 18, our most powerful Blade ever, bringing desktop-class performance to a portable form factor: https://t.co/BWOuEtjGf9 Powered by the Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 290HX PLUS processor and up to NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5090 Laptop Graphics with 24GB VRAM,……
Ravie LakshmananMay 14, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has released updates to address a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Controller that it said has been exploited in limited attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. “A vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system,” Cisco said. The networking equipment major said the flaw stems from a malfunction of the peering authentication mechanism, which…
Laden with iconic Royal Oak design cues, most notably the octagonal case, eight-screw bezel, and Petite Tapisserie-patterned dial, the strapless design heavily references 1979’s Royal Oak Pocket Watch reference 5691. Inside is an entirely new hand-wound version of Swatch’s Sistem51 caliber, a movement that is completely machine assembled. Swatch has 15 active patents on this new iteration and has also squeezed in an impressive 90-hour power reserve. There’s even an antimagnetic Nivachron balance spring that was, incidentally, codeveloped with Audemars Piguet.Swatch’s 1986 POP line, whose watch heads could be physically ejected from their frames and clipped elsewhere, has been plundered…
Imported competition is causing local pressure Walk through any Singapore mall today, and something about the atmosphere has quietly changed. The bubble tea shop is from Chengdu. The hotpot place is backed by a 700-outlet chain you’ve never heard of. The coffee queue is for Luckin, not Starbucks. Chinese F&B brands are suddenly everywhere, and they are expanding rapidly. Molly Tea, for instance, arrived less than two months ago and has already opened its second store. This isn’t a coincidence, but part of a larger phenomenon—and understanding why requires looking at what’s happening inside China first. The price wars back…
Microsoft Corp.-owned LinkedIn is about to lay off about 5% of its staff, according to report in Reuters today. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters that the networking giant will reorganize its teams and focus on areas where the core business is growing. Presently, LinkedIn employs close to 17,500 staff globally, which would put the cull count near 875. Though the specifics of the layoffs have yet to be delineated, the source told Reuters that the headcount blitz is not related artificial intelligence and automated processes. They have, however, been confirmed, as…