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Humanoid robots have been everywhere lately.They’re running half-marathons in Beijing. They’re chasing wild boars off the streets of Warsaw. They’re getting put to work as airport baggage handlers, waste sorters, and traffic cops. They’re walking the red carpet with first lady Melania Trump at the White House. They’re even being ordained as Buddhist monks.Humanoid robots have been hyped as the future of everything, from completing household chores to caring for elders to doing the dirty work on the factory floor, while Elon Musk is pivoting Tesla from cars to humanoid robots, claiming they’ll soon outnumber humans.Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram…
Ravie LakshmananMay 11, 2026Supply Chain Attack / DevSecOps Checkmarx has confirmed that a modified version of the Jenkins AST plugin was published to the Jenkins Marketplace. “If you are using Checkmarx Jenkins AST plugin, you need to ensure that you are using the version 2.0.13-829.vc72453fa_1c16 that was published on December 17, 2025 or previously,” the cybersecurity company said in a statement over the weekend. As of writing, Checkmarx has released 2.0.13-848.v76e89de8a_053 on both GitHub and the Jenkins Marketplace, although its incident update still notes that it’s “in the process of publishing a new version of this plugin.” It did not…
Elon Musk’s trial against OpenAI and Microsoft entered its final stretch on Monday, with testimony from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and current OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor.Sutskever drew the spotlight, revealing an ownership stake in OpenAI’s $850-billion for-profit arm that is currently worth about $7 billion. That makes him one of the largest known individual shareholders of OpenAI. Earlier in the trial, OpenAI president Greg Brockman acknowledged for the first time that he has around $30 billion worth of OpenAI shares.Brockman was one of the research lab’s original cofounders, and Sutskever joined shortly afterward, turning…
IBM Think saw Big Blue grab its place in the artificial intelligence spotlight. In a week full of notable, and surprising, AI news, IBM Think saw CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize AI as the operating model of the future while positioning IBM’s platform as a control plane for AI and quantum infrastructure. The rise of the AI operating model has led to a new persona: the AI builder, an employee with perhaps a business or analytics background who can prompt AI models to accomplish certain business tasks. The new state of enterprise is comparable to a teenager driving their first car,…
With today’s release of iOS 26.5, Apple has begun rolling out beta support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging. As with all things RCS, there are some basic requirements both you and the recipient of your messages will need to fulfill before you messages are secured in transit. First, you’ll need an iPhone running iOS 26.5 connected to a wireless network that supports E2E encrypted messaging over RCS. You can find the full list of compatible networks on Apple’s website. In the US, AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon are all out of the gate with day-one support for…
The AI industry is moving beyond session-based chatbots toward a new generation of persistent autonomous agents designed to remember information, execute tasks continuously, and operate across multiple platforms without constant user supervision. At the center of this shift are three influential systems: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and Anthropic’s Claude. While all three target advanced AI automation, they represent fundamentally different visions of what AI agents should become. Traditional AI assistants are largely session-dependent. Developers provide context, receive outputs, and then repeat the process in every new interaction because most systems retain limited long-term memory. Persistent agents aim to solve this limitation…
Today, we welcome the 42nd government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Costa Rica.The CSIRT of the Government of Costa Rica now has access to monitor government domains against the data in HIBP. This enables their national cybersecurity incident response team to identify exposure of government email addresses in data breach, support prevention and analysis activities, and respond more quickly when new incidents appear.Costa Rica’s CSIRT plays a national role in cybersecurity incident response, helping coordinate, analyse, and respond to threats affecting the government and the broader digital ecosystem. We’re very happy to support that mission by…
I have explained the benefits of using an e-ink device over physical books. They are easier to handle, can store your entire library for travel, let you buy books at lower prices, and make looking up words or taking notes effortless. Another reason to get an e-ink tablet right now is that the e-reader market has never looked this good. There are now e-ink devices for practically every use case and budget, ranging from a pocket-friendly $69 to $600 and beyond. So, if you have been on the fence about picking one up, this is the article that will finally…
The surveillance infrastructure tracking American drivers has grown far more sophisticated than most people realize. What began as simple plate-logging technology has evolved into AI systems capable of identifying faces, flagging unusual travel patterns and building detailed movement profiles — all without the knowledge of the people being watched. Companies such as Flock Safety now operate in communities across 49 states, and their data is accessible to thousands of law enforcement agencies, including federal immigration enforcement, according to civil liberties groups. State legislatures are among the few institutions actively writing rules around how these systems can be used, and what…
Ravie LakshmananMay 11, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Threat Intelligence A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users. The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filter, masqueraded as its legitimate counterpart, released by OpenAI late last month (openai/privacy-filter), including copying the entire description verbatim to trick unsuspecting users into downloading it.Access to the malicious model has since been disabled by Hugging Face. Privacy Filter was unveiled in April 2026 by the artificial intelligence (AI) company as a way to detect and redact…