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Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners — tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (558+ words) Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners " tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller'Tom's Hardware You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful DJI will pay $30,000 to a man who discovered a…...
Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (438+ words) Story has a happy ending of sorts, but should serve as a cautionary tale. Everyone loves a good story about agent bots gone wrong, and those often come with a bit of schadenfreude towards our virtual companions. Sometimes, though, the…...
Iranian drone strikes hit three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain — Iran confirms it targeted Amazon cloud infrastructure
10+ hour, 44+ min ago (368+ words) Luke James is a freelance writer and journalist." Although his background is in legal, he has a personal interest in all things tech, especially hardware and microelectronics, and anything regulatory." Unparalleled insights. Industry analysis. Insider access. Tom's Hardware Premium equips…...
Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file — vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (146+ words) Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file " vulnerability in SDK could log messages and credentials in plaintext'Tom's Hardware Thankfully, the issue has since been hotfixed by Arc Raiders, but the fault still lies with…...
DoJ, Europol, and others bring down LeakBase cybercrime site of 142,000 member, multiple arrests made — seized website reportedly among world's largest hacker forums
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (192+ words) DoJ, Europol, and others bring down LeakBase cybercrime site of 142,000 member, multiple arrests made " seized website reportedly among world's largest hacker forums'Tom's Hardware Cut off a limb, and two more shall take its place. Cybercrime has seen a staggering rise…...
Drones attack several AWS Middle East region data centers amid Iran war, leading to outages — service health been disrupted after power cut due to fire risk
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (206+ words) Data center operator is still waiting for permission to safely restore power. "In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to…...
California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (285+ words) AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it. California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2025, requires every operating system provider in California to collect…...
AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data
1+ week, 4+ day ago (238+ words) It's almost like we could all see this one coming. Several commenters immediately spotted the problem, all while chiding Yue for making this basic blunder while being in charge, of all things, of Alignment (AI safety) at Meta Superintelligence. Since…...
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models
1+ week, 4+ day ago (224+ words) 16 million exchanges to train various models. Anthropic on Monday accused three leading Chinese developers of frontier AI models of using large-scale distillation to improve their own models by using Anthropic's Claude capabilities. In total, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million…...
Microsoft's Project Silica write-once storage could store terabytes of data for over 10,000 years — company explores two physical glass storage methods, so the glass-clad future of storage isn't coming anytime soon
2+ week, 1+ day ago (318+ words) Tom's Hardware Premium equips you with world-class coverage and detailed insights into the evolving hardware landscape. Microsoft is working on two radically different mechanisms. The main concern around Project Silica is that Microsoft Research is now working in two different…...