Daily Deal: The Modern Tech Skills Bundle
Bring your tech skills up to 21st-century snuff with the all-encompassing Modern Tech Skills Bundle. This 2,000+ class series combines subject areas that every aspiring tech pro needs to know…
NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy
NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it’s clear that the space agency wants to move quickly in establishing…
Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge…
GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure
GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS…
Since 9/11, Fear Has Driven Our Politics. Don’t Let It Drive The Next 25 Years.
Twenty-five years ago today I was woken up by a phone call from a close friend, who, like me, grew up in New York and, like me, was now living…
Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve.…
Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims
Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The…
Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?
Welcome to Edition 9.10 of the Rocket Report! This week we’re celebrating a historic moment in Europe when a German rocket company successfully put its launch vehicle into orbit. Isar…
Could United Launch Alliance’s money problems finally force its owners to sell?
Pretty much every rocket company in the United States, save one, has embraced two fundamental tenets: reusability and diversification. Most famously, SpaceX branched out from reusable rockets to pursue and…
What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?
Almost a hundred years ago, physicists theorized out what free fall should do to a quantum wave. If the solution they came up with is wrong, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s…