

AI is now being used to find vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel
AI can now be used to find potential vulnerabilities, reproduce them, create exploits and suggest mitigation methods.
Apple Enters the Touchscreen Laptop Era
For years, touchscreen laptops have been a part of the Windows ecosystem. Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft have already explored touch-based computing through devices such as the XPS, Spectre, Yoga and Surface lineups. Now, Apple has officially introduced touchscreen functionality to the MacBook Pro for the first time.

GTFormer: What If Long Context Didn’t Need Attention At All...
A new preprint trains a model on just 512 tokens and runs it on 4 million without any fine tuning. It does this by dropping self attention completely.
When a Certificate Authority’s Keys Turned Out to Be Guessable
Chrome, Firefox, Apple and Microsoft all cut off certificates from Bengaluru-based eMudhra within days. The cause was a set of keys that should have been random and weren’t.
Why Governments Switched Off Their Own Websites Last Week
Last Wednesday, several European governments switched off their own websites on purpose. The reason was PHP2Shell, two bugs in the language behind roughly 70% of the web.

Tesla Roadster: When a Supercar Borrows Technology from Rockets
What if a car could generate enough suction to drive upside down — and use rocket-style thrusters to propel itself into the air? Tesla's next-generation Roadster brings automotive engineering, active aerodynamics, and aerospace propulsion into one ambitious prototype.