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Five US Agencies Say AI Is Writing the Exploit Code Being Aimed at Water Utilities

A joint advisory describes AI-generated attack scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools, pointed at industrial controllers in water, energy and manufacturing. The honest version is narrower than the headlines and more worrying than the reassurance.

Aug 22, 2026/4 min read

A Siemens Simatic S7 programmable logic controller, the device family named in the advisory

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Nevada Approved Up to 8,000 Robotaxis. Tesla's Own Cybercab Engineer Says It Might Manage 2,500.

The Nevada Transportation Authority voted unanimously to let Tesla, Waymo and Uber run paid driverless rides in Clark County. The permitted number and the deliverable number are very different figures, and the company said so itself.

Aug 22, 2026/3 min read

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The Telescope Launching This Month Sees a Patch of Sky a Hundred Times Wider Than Hubble's

Nancy Grace Roman is not a bigger Webb. It is a survey instrument, built to photograph enormous areas of sky at Hubble-class sharpness, and its value is in the sheer volume of what it will record.

Aug 21, 2026/3 min read

A wide field of sky scattered with distant galaxies of similar scale

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China Is Sending a Lander, a Rover and a Hopper to the Lunar South Pole on Monday

Chang'e 7 targets the one part of the Moon where ice may have sat undisturbed for billions of years, in craters the sun has never reached. The hopper is the part nobody has tried before.

Aug 21, 2026/3 min read

The cratered lunar surface near the pole with long shadows cast across it

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The Grades Went Up and the Knowledge Went Down. A Study of 3.2 Million Problems Caught Both at Once

A ten-year panel of maths learning data found students spending 27 per cent less time on the problems AI can do, scoring better on unsupervised work, and 25 per cent worse when someone was watching.

Aug 18, 2026/5 min read

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A Middle East Data Breach Now Costs 8 Million Dollars, and a Quarter of Them Are AI-Enabled

IBM's 2026 breach report puts the regional average at 8 million dollars, with lost business the single largest line at 3.57 million. The cheapest number in the study is the one most firms have not spent.

Aug 18, 2026/3 min read

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Alibaba's Open Models Passed Three Billion Downloads. Distribution Is the Whole Story

Qwen has overtaken Meta and Google on cumulative downloads. In open weights, the number that decides the winner is not benchmark performance, it is how many things get built on top.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

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Wall Street Has Started Lending Against the Chips Themselves

Nvidia and six financial institutions are mobilising more than 500 billion dollars for AI infrastructure, with the graphics processors as collateral. The question nobody has answered is what a used GPU is worth in 2031.

Aug 16, 2026/3 min read

Rows of server racks in a data centre corridor

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There Are Now Computers Doing Real Work in Orbit, and a Long Way to Go

The first orbital data centre nodes launched in January and multiple operators ran production workloads by February. The physics is genuinely favourable. The economics depend entirely on launch costs.

Aug 15, 2026/4 min read

A satellite with extended solar arrays in orbit above the curve of the Earth

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The AI Race Is Now a Race for Electricity, Land and Cold Water

One operator has raised around eleven billion dollars since late 2023 and another is weighing a hundred-billion-dollar listing. The scarce resource stopped being chips some time ago.

Aug 15, 2026/4 min read

A long corridor of server racks in a data centre

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Tesla and SpaceX Are Building a Chip Plant on a Dead Coal Reservoir

Sixteen point eight billion dollars for the first phase, a hundred million square feet when finished, and a site chosen because a shuttered power station left behind exactly what a fab needs.

Aug 14, 2026/4 min read

A semiconductor cleanroom with fabrication equipment in rows