His headphones kept cutting out, so he read the AliExpress code

A developer worked out why his Bluetooth headphones kept dropping his music, and the answer was on the AliExpress homepage. The Register reported the story on Monday, drawing on the developer’s own [...]

Kimi K3 is exposing cracks in Trump’s AI coalition

The Chinese model’s rise has ignited a fight over open-source AI and whether Washington should protect America’s frontier labs. [...]

Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks [...]

Multi-turn attacks broke AI models 88% of the time — single-turn testing missed it, Cisco AI security lead warns at VB Transform 2026

When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco's head of AI threat [...]

The AI race to the bottom is here

A little-known Chinese AI startup shook Wall Street after its Kimi K3 model challenged OpenAI and Anthropic [...]

How I free up Windows disk space and shred sensitive data for free with open-source BleachBit

Running low on hard disk space or just want to get rid of junk files? The free BleachBit utility can easily handle that assignment. Here's why it beats Storage Sense. [...]

NTT DATA AIVista and Snowflake: Identity alone won’t secure enterprise AI agents

Presented by NTT DATA AIVistaVentureBeat’s June research found that 69% of enterprises are still running AI agents that share credentials, a practice associated with higher rates of security inciden [...]

Private Internet Access now lets you ditch Google as it brings its VPN app to F-Droid

PIA has launched its Android app on the open-source app store, giving Big Tech skeptics an alternative way to install its service. [...]

Upwind first to report malicious Keyv release that threatened thousands of JavaScript projects

For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further up [...]