An AI engineer working outside academia says he has deciphered Linear A, a Bronze Age writing system from Minoan Crete.

Banks and lenders often can't tell the difference between a customer having a risky month and a risky customer having a good month. Financial data company Plaid built a foundation model that it says ...

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that's a bilingual text, like the Rosetta ...

Apple has released Safari Technology Preview 248, the latest version of its developer preview web browser. The preview ...

Google LiteRT.js, released July 9, 2026, brings native browser AI inference to web developers by compiling Google's proven C++ runtime to WebAssembly — delivering up to 3× faster performance than ...

Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data. The threat actor used invisible Unicode characters to ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic's Claude Opus large language model (LLM). The package ...

Steve Jobs really didn't care for Flash. Photo: Lewis Wallace/Cult of Mac April 29, 2010: Apple CEO Steve Jobs pens “Thoughts on Flash,” an open letter to explain why, basically, Adobe Flash kind of ...

Anthropic just cannot keep a lid on its business. After details of a yet-to-be-announced model were revealed due to the company leaving unpublished drafts of documents and blog posts in a publicly ...

Another set of 17 malicious extensions linked to the GhostPoster campaign has been discovered in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge stores, where they accumulated a total of 840,000 installations. The ...

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