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According to the French music streaming service Deezer, there are about 50,000 fully AI-generated songs uploaded to its platform every day. Many of these songs won’t reach a wide audience, but over the past year, a few have gained millions of listens.Which raises the question: If our future is going to be filled with this kind of AI music, what does that future sound like?Deni Béchard is the senior science writer at Scientific American. For the better part of a month, Béchard has only allowed himself to listen to his own AI-generated music using the AI music app Suno. He…
The first-generation iPhone Air invented a new market segment — ultra-thin smartphones — but didn’t do as well as the company expected. Now that the segment has a couple of players, it’s all the more important for the Cupertino giant to maintain its lead, especially as the pioneer. To achieve that, the company has been planning to upgrade the iPhone Air 2 with a secondary camera, something we’ve known for a while. However, a new leak from the Chinese tipster Instant Digital now claims that the next-generation slim iPhone could also get a slimmer Face ID module. Slimmer Face ID…
Some of designer C Jacob Payne’s projects present new, futuristic products — such as zero-gravity footwear for astronauts, and electronic-embedded ceramics — using technological tools and processes of digital fabrication, material innovation, and interactive interfaces. Other projects travel back in time to past centuries, considering the challenge of preserving and reconstructing Black architectural heritage.Payne graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and environmental studies, and then worked briefly at architecture firms in New York and Los Angeles. He decided to pursue a professional degree in order to become a licensed architect and to try out different types…
Ravie LakshmananJan 26, 2026Cyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing campaign that’s targeting Indian users with a multi-stage backdoor as part of a suspected cyber espionage campaign. The activity, per the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU), involves using phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department of India to trick victims into downloading a malicious archive, ultimately granting the threat actors persistent access to their machines for continuous monitoring and data exfiltration. The end goal of the sophisticated attack is to deploy a variant of a known banking trojan called Blackmoon (aka KRBanker) and a legitimate enterprise tool…
A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately curb the federal operation that has put armed agents on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but ordered the government to file a new briefing by Wednesday evening answering a central claim in the case: that the surge is being used to punish Minnesota and force state and local authorities to change their laws and cooperate with the targeting of local immigrants.The order leaves the operation’s scope and tactics in place for now, but requires the federal government to explain whether it is using armed raids and street arrests to pressure…
If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it’s not just you. TikTok says is still working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of its data centers that’s caused “multiple bugs” in the app. TikTok users have reported problems logging in and uploading videos, as well as strange behavior from the “for you” algorithm. Creators have also noticed that new uploads are seemingly getting o views or likes and that in-app earnings have disappeared.”Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center…
How to Access Ministral 3 via API TL;DR Ministral 3 is a family of open-weight, reasoning-optimized models available in both 3B and 14B variants. The models support multimodal reasoning, native function and tool calling, and a huge 256K token context window, all released under an Apache 2.0 license. You can run Ministral 3 directly on Clarifai using the Playground for interactive testing or integrate it into your applications through Clarifai’s OpenAI-compatible API. This guide explains the Ministral 3 architecture, how to access it through Clarifai, and how to choose the right variant for your production workloads. Introduction Modern AI applications…
Quantum chip developer IonQ Inc. today announced plans to acquire SkyWater Technology Foundry Inc. for $1.8 billion. SkyWater was formed in 2017 from a former unit of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., an early memory manufacturer. One of its specialties is making cryogenic control electronics for quantum computers. That capability may have been one of the factors behind IonQ’s decision to swoop in. NYSE-listed IonQ makes quantum processors powered by ions, atoms with an electrical charge. Last year, it inked a $1.075 billion deal to acquire Oxford Ionics Ltd., a fellow quantum chip developer that also uses ions as qubits. Those qubits…
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Hello Cyber Builders 🖖I’m continuing the series on Intelligent Security. Last week, we explored the AIxCC challenge. This week, I want to take a step back and make sense of the wave of new benchmarks emerging across the internet.If you’re like me, reading through them often leaves you wondering: what is AI really capable of today? On one side, we see bold marketing claims from vendors. On the other hand, “cyber safety” labs publish weak or incomplete results. In contrast, we see DARPA-style contests or highly specialized startups achieving impressive breakthroughs.In this post, I’ll share my view on how the…