A $63 Million Contract Canada Marked Not for Public Disclosure
The arrangement has been running since 2020, and for most of that time the Department of National Defence treated its details as something the public did not need to see.…
A Quantum Conjecture Falls in Three Days, and a Machine Checks the Proof
Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis published their conjecture in 2008. It survived eighteen years, several partial results and a great deal of attempted machinery. On Nov. 6, Physical Superintelligence, a…
The $6.3 Billion Binance Theft Started With a Job Interview
The engineer was not careless. He was recruited. People posing as hiring managers at another company put him through a video interview, asked him to install a package so he…
Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Only Needs 40 Kilowatt-Hours
Forty kilowatt-hours is roughly what a compact hatchback carried a decade ago, before batteries got cheap and every manufacturer started advertising range as a virtue. Elon Musk said this week…
ServiceNow Spent $9.17 Billion on Deals and Traded Net Cash for Net Debt
ServiceNow began 2026 with $8.56 billion more cash than debt. It ended the first nine months of the year with $563 million more debt than cash, a swing of roughly…
When the School Buys the Chatbot
The device was a Chromebook, issued by a school district, which means the configuration on it was chosen by an institution rather than by a parent. According to a lawsuit…
Penetration-Testing Tools That Answer to No One
A penetration-testing suite is sold as a controlled capability. There is a license, a scope document, a named tester, and a window of days in which that tester is allowed…
Chainalysis Says an Attacker Took Credentials for Its Entire Customer Base
The accounts are close to worthless on their own. What sits behind them is not. Chainalysis disclosed on Nov 5 that an attacker had obtained the names, usernames, password hashes…
New Glenn’s Return Slips to January 2027, and the Manifest Slips With It
A launch pad is the part of a rocket program that cannot be rushed. A vehicle can be rebuilt in a hangar with enough overtime and enough machinists. The concrete,…
A Task Force for a Crime the Code Does Not Define
The name arrived before the definition. On Nov 5 the Justice Department stood up something called the Super Intelligence Task Force, staffed with federal prosecutors working alongside the FBI, and…
