Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative

American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say data centers are mostly bad for the environment, up from 39% in January. Half… Continue reading Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative→

Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI

Claude Opus 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can access it through the Claude Platform using the model name claude-opus-5-5. It includes watermarking measures designed to c… Continue reading Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI→

Prismor: Open-source runtime control plane for AI agents

Prismor is a free, open-source security layer for AI coding agents. It sits between an agent such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and the actions that agent wants to take, and it checks each tool call against a policy before the call runs. Every call … Continue reading Prismor: Open-source runtime control plane for AI agents→

Product showcase: Scamwise checks the red flags before you take the bait

Scamwise is a free scam-checking service from Savi that examines suspicious messages, emails, websites, phone numbers, images, and real-world situations for signs of fraud. The service works in any web browser on desktop, mobile, or tablet, with no acc… Continue reading Product showcase: Scamwise checks the red flags before you take the bait→

Rabbit’s new OS lives in the cloud and borrows your laptop to get things done

Rabbit, the Santa Monica company that makes the r1 handheld, released OS3, an agentic operating system. It runs in Rabbit’s cloud and operates a user’s computers through a local agent that installs with one command. The user states a goal i… Continue reading Rabbit’s new OS lives in the cloud and borrows your laptop to get things done→

NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter

A NetBSD box at the edge of a network, filtering traffic with ipfilter, has been carrying a kernel flaw that someone outside the machine can set off. The bug is a remotely triggerable null pointer dereference in ipfilter, meaning the kernel tries to re… Continue reading NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter→

The next intellectual property thief may sound like your CEO

Impersonation, phishing and domain-name abuse are the most concerning types of online intellectual property infringement, according to CSC’s The State of Online IP Risk 2026 report. Internet and branded content, online marketplaces and paid search were… Continue reading The next intellectual property thief may sound like your CEO→

A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers

Researchers from the i2CAT Foundation, the University of Murcia, and NEC Laboratories Europe built a low-cost tool called 5G-Shark that lures a target phone onto a fake base station and questions it, then used it to audit commercial 5G networks. On the… Continue reading A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers→