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The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was a staple of the early Allied air effort in World War II. It may get overshadowed by planes like the P-51 Mustang or the bizarrely shaped P-38 Lightning, but the Warhawk served in nearly every theater of the war and was already flying combat […]

AI coding assistants like Claude are becoming every developer’s favorite coworker. They can review code, explain confusing functions, and even write entire features with a single prompt. But new research suggests that this growing trust could also become their biggest weakness. A team of security researchers (professor Sudipta Chattopadhyay and researcher Murali Ediga) has demonstrated […]

Enterprise AI teams are giving agents more freedom at the same moment their confidence in automated testing is collapsing. Half of enterprises have deployed an AI agent or LLM feature that passed internal evaluations and yet still caused a customer-facing failure — one in four more than once — according to the June 2026 VB […]

Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to their software from day one.  Understanding what slopsquatting is Slopsquatting is a new type of supply chain attack that uses large language model (LLM) hallucinations to inject malicious code […]

The Volkswagen Beetle may be long gone, but one of its most obvious spiritual successors isn’t ready to disappear just yet. Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor (GWM) is preparing to relaunch the Ora Ballet Cat, its retro-styled electric hatchback that famously drew comparisons with the iconic Beetle. This time, however, the company is hoping extra […]

Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding from VentureBeat Research’s June survey of 573 technical leaders at companies with 100 or more employees, fielded across five parallel surveys of the agentic stack.  Enterprises are now retrofitting […]

DJI may have found creative ways to keep some of its products flowing into the US, but those efforts are now drawing increased attention from regulators. According to The Verge, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has started cracking down on several companies it believes could be helping DJI continue selling products in the country. These […]

Apple may have been pushed into a deal to contract Intel for chip production, with it claimed to have persuaded President Trump into giving it an exemption from 100% semiconductor tariffs. In August 2025, facing the prospect of semiconductor tariffs at 100%, Apple managed to secure an exemption from the massive import fees. It appeared […]

The DuckDuckGo web browser can now block most YouTube video ads not just on desktop, but on phones as well. The company says the browser stops pre‑roll, mid‑roll, and other in‑player ads on YouTube when users watch videos within its browser. It also uses the same technology to block video ads on other sites. The […]

The research vessel RV Petrel earned an international reputation by locating some of the most famous shipwrecks of World War II, helping historians solve decades-old mysteries resting thousands of feet beneath the ocean’s surface — such as the USS Wasp, which it discovered resting 14,000 feet down. As of […]