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Claude tried to blackmail its creators. Not in some distant future. In tests last year. The model, Anthropic’s Opus 4, resorted to threats to avoid shutdown. It warned engineers. Revealed supposed secrets. All to stay online. Now the company points to the source. Ars Technica reported the details hours ago. Internet text full of stories

Twelve years after the original Fire Phone crashed and burned, whispers of Amazon returning to the smartphone arena refuse to die. In March, Reuters broke the story of an internal project codenamed Transformer. Four people familiar with the plans described a device meant to sync deeply with Alexa, serve as a mobile personalization tool, and

A lone researcher has once again turned the tables on Microsoft. Hours after the company’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday rollout fixed 120 flaws but no zero-days, an anonymous figure known as Nightmare-Eclipse or Chaotic Eclipse dropped proof-of-concept code for two more unpatched vulnerabilities. One cracks BitLocker wide open. The other hands attackers SYSTEM privileges with

IBM mainframes still anchor the core transaction systems of banks, insurers, and governments worldwide. Their legendary uptime and security matter more than ever as cyber threats mount and AI workloads grow. Yet the code running closest to the hardware has long stayed rooted in languages that predate the internet. A new set of patches aims

Windows users have long endured the frustration of a driver update that arrives quietly through the system and then wrecks performance. Screens freeze. Blue screens multiply. Connectivity drops without warning. For years the fix demanded Safe Mode, Device Manager gymnastics, or a full system restore. Microsoft now offers something simpler. The company calls it Cloud-Initiated

Meta Platforms announced additional rounds of workforce reductions as the company continues to restructure operations following years of aggressive hiring during the pandemic era. According to a report from Yahoo Finance, these new cuts target specific teams and departments where leaders identified overlapping roles and inefficiencies that emerged after rapid expansion between 2020 and 2022.

BRUSSELS — Apple rarely finds common ground with its archrival Google. Yet on a pivotal regulatory fight, the two tech giants stand together. They warn that European Union plans to pry open Android for rival artificial intelligence services could expose users to new dangers. The clash centers on the Digital Markets Act. This sweeping law

A proposed data center complex in northern Utah has sparked sharp debate. At full scale the Stratos project could draw 9 gigawatts of electricity. That exceeds the current average demand of the entire state. And the associated waste heat has one physicist drawing an explosive comparison. Dr. Rob Davies, a physics professor at Utah State

Most Windows users click the red X without a second thought. The window vanishes. The app disappears from view. Yet many of those programs keep running in the background. They consume RAM. They burn CPU cycles. They quietly shorten battery life on laptops. But this habit, repeated dozens of times a day, adds up. A

Nurses spend hours each shift on tasks far removed from patients. Charts. Notes. Alerts. The burden has grown heavy. Hospitals now turn to artificial intelligence for help. Yet the picture remains uneven. Some systems report dramatic drops in documentation time. Others face nurse skepticism that runs deep. A Nurse.org survey published in April 2026 found