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January 13, 2026Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw affecting Gogs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, warning that it can be actively exploited. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-8110 (CVSS score: 8.7) and is related to a path traversal case in the repository file editor, which could lead to code execution. “Gogs Path Traversal Vulnerability: Gogs contains a path traversal vulnerability that affects improper handling of symbolic links in the PutContents API, potentially allowing code execution,” CISA said in an advisory. Details of the flaw were revealed last…
When Hupo co-founder and CEO Justin Kim first started his company about four years ago, the company wasn’t selling AI-powered sales coaching to banks, financial services, or insurance companies. The company originally started as Ami, a mental wellness platform focused on how people deal with pressure, form habits, and change behaviors over time. “I’ve always been a huge sports fan, whether it’s basketball, football, F1, mixed martial arts, and what draws me to all of them is performance. In my free time, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what really drives human performance. People are very different, but…
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns in 2025. While most are AI-related, a surprising number are focused in other industries like satellite space companies Loft Orbital and blockchain-based trading site Kalshi. This list will be updated throughout the year, so check back and see the latest powerhouse startups that are now worth over $1 billion. December Heven Aerotech —$1 billion: This startup, founded in 2019, is creating hydrogen-powered drones. It last raised a $100 million Series B, and has raised $115.2…
Smart rings, smart screens, smart TVs, smart pins, smart… ice cube makers? Of course you wouldn’t. AI was everywhere at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with companies big and small showing off how they’re bringing it to more devices. For Amazon, CES was an opportunity to show off its latest acquisition in the space: Bee. Bee is an AI device that can be worn as a clip-on pin or bracelet. Amazon has already entered the AI consumer device space with Alexa, and its upgraded AI-powered version, Alexa+, can run on 97% of the hardware devices shipped…
When Meta released its capital expenditure forecast last year, the company revealed that it planned to invest significantly to increase its AI business capabilities. “We expect developing a cutting-edge AI infrastructure to be a core advantage in developing the best AI models and product experiences,” Meta CFO Susan Li said on an earnings call last summer. Now, the tech giant appears to be delivering on that promise. On Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Meta Computing, a new initiative designed to power the tech giant’s AI infrastructure. Zuckerberg said the company intends to significantly expand its energy usage…
On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Cowork, designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code. This new tool, built into the Claude desktop app, allows users to specify specific folders where Claude can read or modify files, and provides detailed instructions through a standard chat interface. The result is similar to a sandboxed instance of Claude code, but requires much less technical knowledge to set up. Currently in research preview, Cowork is available only to Max subscribers, with a waiting list available to users on other plans. This new tool is inspired in part by the growing…
Since Ronald Reagan was president, the Environmental Protection Agency has added value to human life. If you think about it too long, it can get a little wild, but the end result is to provide a cost-benefit analysis of pollution control measures. Reducing pollution can extend human lifespans, so if the health benefits of reducing pollution outweigh the costs, then there is an economic argument in favor of reducing it. Since then, every administration has assigned some value to human life when deciding how to regulate air pollution. The New York Times reports that the Trump administration plans to ignore…
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Amazon provided a little more insight into how it thinks its AI platform will compete in the real world. In other words, Amazon plans to take advantage of the wide footprint its devices already have in homes and the familiarity that consumers already have with its Alexa brand. “97% of the devices we’ve shipped so far can support Alexa+,” Daniel Rausch, vice president of Amazon Alexa and Echo, said in an interview at CES. He said the latest numbers available to Amazon show that the company has sold more than…
A new study shows that a swath of DNA left in the mouse genome by an ancient viral infection is crucial for early development in the womb.The viral DNA turns on genes that give cells in early mouse embryos the potential to become almost any type of cell in the body, according to a study published in Science Advances in December. The viral DNA itself, known as MERVL, is activated by a protein called the “Dux transcription factor,” which binds to the sequence and essentially starts the development of the embryo.Although important in the womb, if Dux remains activated for…
Iridium metal complexes are an unconventional but promising new antibiotic, a new study has found.The compound is one of more than 600 produced in a study published in Nature Communications in December. The researchers used robots to synthesize compounds, combining building blocks of metal and organic molecules to generate a huge chemical library in just one week.This streamlined approach could also generate five other potential antibiotics, dramatically accelerating both drug discovery and parallel fields of chemical research, lead study author Angelo Fry, an inorganic chemist at the University of York in the UK, told Live Science. you may like As…