Cybersecurity1,243 words6 min read
Carhartt Breach: Why the 24 Million "Stolen Records" Headline Was Half Fiction
ShinyHunters says it pulled 50 gigabytes of data from Carhartt and exposed nearly 24 million customer records. Troy Hunt says not so fast. When the founder of Have I Been Pwned finished cleaning the leak, the real number of affected people…
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EV1,310 words6 min read
BYD Plants 10,000 Megawatt Chargers in Five Months, Halfway to a 20,000-Station Year-End Goal
BYD said this week it has already installed 10,000 of its 1,500-kilowatt "flash charging" stations across China, just five months after unveiling the technology in March. The number puts…
Battery Tech997 words5 min read
A Polymer Cage That Locks Iodine in Place: Flinders Sends a Zinc-Iodine Battery Past 60,000 Cycles
Researchers at Flinders University in South Australia have built an aqueous zinc-iodine battery that holds up through more than 60,000 charge and discharge cycles while still filling in…
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IoT
IoT1,530 words7 min read
Matter Goes Native: LIFX Flips Old Bulbs to Thread, and Carriers Get a Standard API for the Smart Home
For years the smart home has looked unified on the box but fractured in the home. A light bought for Apple Home wouldn't talk to a hub built for Google. A router couldn't see the gadgets…
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AI
AI1,376 words7 min read
China's Z.AI Ships Ox Alpha, a Stealth Open-Weight Model That Outran DeepSeek
China's Z.AI stunned the AI world this week with Ox Alpha, a stealth-released reasoning model that climbed to the top of the OpenRouter usage chart and pushed past DeepSeek in daily…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,074 words5 min read
Regional Cloud Outages Demand Multi-Cloud Resilience Strategies
Geopolitical risks are invalidating regional cloud redundancy. CIOs must adopt a multi-cloud strategy to ensure true business resilience, advises Tata Communications. For the better part of…
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity1,028 words5 min read
Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Exposes JWT Secrets at 12 Bits Per Second
A remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers has been disclosed, leaking JSON Web Tokens from co-located Workers at a rate of up to 12 bits per second — a 360-fold improvement over…
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Robotics & Drones
Robotics & Drones1,056 words5 min read
Humanoid Robots and Drone Delivery Expand at 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing
BEIJING — The 2026 World Robot Conference opened Wednesday with more than 3,000 products on display, as Chinese companies showcase their expanding robotics industry and push beyond…
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Semiconductors
Semiconductors1,347 words7 min read
Samsung Holds Back High-NA EUV Mass Production as Foundry Unit Struggles With Costs
ASML Holding NV has already moved its next-generation High-NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems into volume production for Intel Corp's 18A Panther Lake processors, yet Samsung…
EV1,530 words7 min read
Indonesia's EV Tax Rewrite Shifts Power to the Regions — and Sows Uncertainty for Buyers
Indonesia has ended its nationwide zero-tax policy for electric vehicles, handing control over EV taxation to provincial governments in a move that analysts say could fragment the country's…