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A 13-year-old boy in Hangzhou has already won national AI competitions and built a following of more than 136,000 people online, all while his dad tries to figure out how to guide him through a field that barely existed when he himself was growing up. That family’s situation, first reported by Rest of World, says a lot about where China’s tech industry is heading right now. Companies used to wait for graduates to walk through the door. Now they’re reaching further back, first to undergrads, and increasingly to teenagers, hoping to spot rare talent before anyone else gets to them.…

OpenAI’s latest cybersecurity test produced a result that sounds like a cautionary sci-fi script. Its AI models managed to escape their sandbox and reached the open internet. This is where things took a scary turn as it began hacking Hugging Face to steal the answers to the test they were taking. The company says GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model autonomously chained together vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s research systems and Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. OpenAI has described the event as an unprecedented cyber incident. The models found a real escape route The incident began during an internal evaluation designed…

Robot vacuums are supposed to clean the house. Turns out this one was mapping it for strangers. Security researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability affecting SharkNinja’s cloud-connected robot vacuums that could allow attackers to remotely access sensitive information, including live camera feeds, home maps, Wi-Fi passwords, and even execute commands on affected devices. More concerningly, the issue reportedly remains unpatched despite being responsibly disclosed to SharkNinja months ago. How can a vacuum become a spy? The flaw was discovered by security researcher tokay0, who reverse-engineered a Shark RV2320EDUS robot vacuum. According to the research, the device contains an AWS IoT…

“The Beatbot AquaSense X is the most complete pool robot ever made” Pros Phenomenal cleaning job Lots of technology Works as advertised Great build quality on both station and robot Cons Pretty expensive Station requires lots of space Quick take:  For some people, robot pool cleaners solved the worst work of pool ownership years ago, but then added a new one: hauling a dripping machine to the charging station, and cleaning out the debris basket after each run.  The Beatbot AquaSense X is the first robot built to kill that messy job. Its AstroRinse station is the first automatic filter-cleaning…

AI is making it easier than ever for a single person to build a game. That sounds like a win for creativity, and in many ways, it absolutely is. But there is a catch. As generative AI tools help solo developers and small studios do more with fewer people, the same shift is making life tougher for writers, artists, concept creators, and junior programmers trying to break into the gaming industry. AI is giving solo developers superpowers According to a new report by Rest of World, developers in Turkey are increasingly using AI tools to handle tasks that once required…

Whenever a new AI model arrives, it’s easy to get caught up in the bells and whistles. We talk about how much smarter it is, how quickly it answers questions, or how realistic its images have become. But here’s the thing: none of that matters much if the AI can’t reliably work with the apps and services people use every day. That’s why an upcoming update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) caught my attention. It isn’t a new chatbot or a fancy AI model. In fact, most people will never even know it’s happening. But it could quietly make…

Samsung is reportedly making a last-minute adjustment to its foldable strategy, and it suggests the company is increasingly confident about where the market is headed. According to a report from South Korea’s ETNews, Samsung has raised production targets for its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8, a new foldable expected to feature a 4:3 aspect ratio. The company is now reportedly planning to produce 2.8 million units of the device, up from an earlier target of 2 million. By comparison, Samsung is expected to manufacture around 2 million Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra units and 1.5 million Galaxy Z Flip 8…

If you’ve pre-ordered a Samsung foldable purely for the free storage bump, tomorrow’s Unpacked event might sting a little. For years, pre-ordering a new Galaxy meant automatically getting double the storage at no additional charge. Buy the 128GB model, walk away with 256GB for the same price. The same applied to the 256GB and 512GB models. However, that might change at the upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event.  So what exactly is Samsung ending here? In a newsletter email sent by Samsung Austria, the company has confirmed it’s no longer offering the free storage bump customers are used to getting when they…

My wallet flinched the second I saw the words “TSMC” and “price increase” in the same headline, and honestly, yours should too. Turns out the company behind the silicon powering basically every flagship device out there, including Apple’s A-series and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, is reportedly about to make all of it a little pricier. So how big of a price hike are we actually talking about? According to Nikkei Asia, later confirmed by Reuters, sources familiar with TSMC’s pricing strategy say the company plans to raise chip prices between 5% and 10%, depending on the customer and the chip, starting…

Turns out the “Hide” part of Hide My Email wasn’t doing its job quite as advertised, something that I covered early in July. Security researcher Tyler Murphy reported the flaw in June 2025, but despite Apple claiming it was resolved in March 2026, independent tests confirmed it remained exploitable, at least until July 3, 2026. So how did this bug actually work? The flaw meant that if someone sent a message to your hidden address and it bounced as spam, even a completely legitimate email, your actual email address could get exposed in the sender’s mail logs.  You wouldn’t even…