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Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models

Nvidia hopes to capitalize on European sovereign AI demand by unloading a slew of new open weights models spanning chatbots, healthcare, and robotics.The major model devs have the resources to build highly capable models from scratch. But most enter...

LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets

Unknown crims compromised LiteLLM's release process on Wednesday, distributing a malicious version (1.107.0) containing malware designed to steal cloud and AI credentials and a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of executing arbitrary code on infect...

AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself

More than half of CIOs are likely to miss their AI-related ROI targets next year, according to Forrester. The analyst firm's State Of AI Survey 2026 found that 45 percent of AI decision-makers need positive ROI within a year to consider their invest...

Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup

Make sure you don’t say anything mean or secret after hanging up a call on Signal, as a bug in the encrypted messaging app’s calling library could prevent a call from ending properly, potentially leaving audio and possibly video active.The vulnerabi...

Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash

Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after N...

Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent

Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available...

OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine

OpenBSD 8.0 brings bigger virtual machines, graphics improvements, and another helping of AI mockery. The round version number doesn't signal a radical break with its predecessors.OpenBSD 8.0 is the 61st release of the project. Developer Bryan Steel...

Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you

Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to connect your own AI agent to the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limits.The embrace...

PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched

PHP developers have released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities after cybersecurity authorities warned organizations to patch immediately or consider taking exposed applications offline.PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 address...

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties over the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta after a New Mexico judge ordered it to pay $25 billion in penalties for more than 43 million violations of the state'...

Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision

Cute robots stole the show at Nvidia's GTC keynote in Berlin, where Jensen Huang pitched a future powered by AI agents – and, naturally, plenty of his company's hardware.The Nvidia chief remained his usual ebullient self despite environmental protes...

Cyberpunk 2077’s update for Edgerunners 2 brings mods to PS5, Switch 2, and Xbox

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a big new 2.5 update that, among other features, brings cross-platform mod support to consoles and content inspired by the new season of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime on Netflix. There's a lot to unpack in the full...

Xbox mandates a four-day return to office

Microsoft asked its employees to return to the office three days per week last year, and it's now upping this requirement to four days a week for most Xbox employees. An internal memo, seen by The Verge, describes the change as a "need to creat...

Star Wars Zero Company is a must-play strategy game at 20 percent off

Zero Company will have you teaming up with some unlikely new allies. | Image: EA and Disney If you’ve been curious about Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, Amazon has both the PlayStation 5 and X...

Will TP-Link really make routers in the US? Here’s what it told us

A TP-Link Wi-Fi 8 router. | Image: TP-Link TP-Link, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious position in the US. The company just launched its first Wi-Fi 8 routers, but can't bring them here becau...

GM promises smarter cars, faster updates, and autonomous dry-cleaning runs

A vehicle is welded by robot arms as it goes through the assembly line at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant March 10, 2010 in Lansing, Michigan. | Photo: Getty Images General Motors is still very much in the business of...

Xbox Cloud Gaming’s pay-as-you-go option starts at $3.99 for 10 hours

Microsoft announced last month that it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The new pay-as-you-go model will require players to purchase bundles of cloud hours, and now Microsoft...

OneDrive gives Macs a million things to keep in sync

Microsoft is raising OneDrive's supported macOS sync limit to one million items, matching Windows, alongside new Copilot features, sharing controls, and an admin command-line tool.The macOS preview is scheduled for the Insiders ring this month, with...

AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap

Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey. Respondents estimated that a quarter of incoming pull requests – proposed code changes – were low-qual...

AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated infrastructure attackers

When it comes to cyberattacks that shut down power grids, drinking-water systems, and other critical infrastructure, AI doesn’t – yet – turn script kiddies into sophisticated, nation-state attackers. But “the potential is there,” according to operat...