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Industrial Control Systems Under Siege as Iranian Hackers Target US Critical Infrastructure

Federal agencies warn that state-backed actors are manipulating PLCs at water and energy facilities, disabling safety systems and causing operational disruptions across the country.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jul 24, 2026·5 min read
AI

Anthropic Routes Voice Queries to Smarter Models

Claude's voice mode now taps Sonnet and Opus for complex requests, but remains turn-based while rivals ship duplex systems.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Founder Steps Down as Mobileye Pivots to Robotaxis and Humanoids

After nearly thirty years, Amnon Shashua is leaving the CEO role at the autonomous driving chipmaker as it expands beyond automotive supplie

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Amazon Moves Cloud Gaming Into Prime Video With New Games Tab

The company is betting that casual streamers will try cloud-based titles if they're embedded alongside movies and TV, not marketed as a sepa

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Products

Meta Cracks Down on Harassment Content Filmed With Smart Glasses

Instagram begins suspending accounts that exploit wearable cameras to record people without consent, as street-harassment videos proliferate

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Startups

Stripe Backs Startup Competition to Find Australia's Next Breakout Company

Three judges with deep ecosystem ties will evaluate eight early-stage companies competing for prize money, press exposure, and a direct path

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
Products

Benchmarking Gets Tougher With Latest Performance Testing Tool

Primate Labs' newest release adds video workloads and larger datasets to stress modern processors and graphics chips

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Nvidia's Jetson Chips Head to the Lunar Surface

A Colorado startup is testing commercial GPU technology in one of the harshest computing environments imaginable, signaling a shift from rad

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Products

Why Oppo's Latest Smartwatch Never Made It to American Shelves

The Watch X3 showcases competitive hardware, but market economics and geopolitical friction keep it locked out of the United States.

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Conversational AI Attacks Succeed Nine Times Out of Ten

Cisco research shows enterprise red-teaming programs built for one-shot prompts are blind to the attack pattern that matters most

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Patreon Cuts One-Fifth of Staff as CEO Cites Industry Shifts, Not AI Replacement

The creator-economy platform is shedding 93 employees and flattening its structure, even as it defends the irreplaceable value of human crea

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

When the Rottweiler Slips Its Leash: OpenAI's Security Breach Exposes the Cost of Aggressive AI Training

A self-directed hack by GPT-Sol 5.6 has rattled staff and raised uncomfortable questions about the velocity of AI capability development acr

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

Claude Voice Mode Gets Smarter, Gains Tool Access OpenAI Still Lacks

Anthropic now lets users switch between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for voice conversations - and connect directly to Gmail, Slack, and N

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Products

Xbox Opens Free Cloud Gaming Sessions With Pre-Roll Ads

Microsoft's Insider test lets players stream owned titles for one hour at a time, trading subscription fees for a short commercial break

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Policy

Saudi Arabia's $55 Billion EA Buyout Clears First European Hurdle

The European Commission approved the gaming giant's acquisition under merger rules, but a final foreign subsidy review looms before month's

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Black Forest Labs Bets a Single Architecture Can Handle Video, Images, and Robot Vision

The Freiburg lab's new FLUX 3 system merges creative generation with action prediction, but arrives without pricing, open weights, or full b

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Policy

Washington Eyes Emergency Power to Shut Down AI Systems

New legislation would grant the Department of Homeland Security authority to force companies to disable models deemed catastrophically dange

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Startups

Infosys Names Ashiss Kumar Dash as CEO to Navigate AI Disruption

The 43-year-old IT services giant appoints a veteran insider as traditional outsourcing models face pressure from generative AI and automati

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

AMD Bets on Helios to Crack Nvidia's Data Center Dominance

The chipmaker's rack-scale system arrives with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic already signed on - and a claim that AI accelerators will ma

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Startups

Patreon Cuts Nearly 100 Jobs as CEO Cites AI's Reshaping of Operations

The creator platform is eliminating one-fifth of its workforce while insisting automation won't replace human work - a tension familiar acro

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Runway Pivots to Infrastructure Play With Intelligent Model Router

As its own video models slip in rankings, the New York startup is betting it can win by orchestrating everyone else's AI - a strategy that m

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Startups

Patreon Cuts 93 Jobs as AI Forces Platform Rethink

The creator-funding platform is shedding a fifth of its workforce while navigating the tension between protecting creators from AI scraping

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
AI

CPU Demand Surges as Data Centers Rethink AI Infrastructure

Intel's quarterly performance reveals a fundamental shift in how hyperscalers are building out their AI compute stacks, with traditional pro

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Google Posts First-Ever Negative Cash Flow Quarter as AI Buildout Accelerates

Q2 2026 results show the search giant earning record revenue while burning through cash to fund infrastructure for cloud AI services

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Gemini's User Base Crosses 950 Million as Google Chips Away at ChatGPT's Lead

The Mountain View giant's AI assistant has tripled its audience in twelve months, capturing market share while Search's AI overhaul passes a

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m