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July 16, 2025Ravi LakshmananAI Security/Vulnerability Google revealed on Tuesday that its Large Language Model (LLM)-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Framework discovered security flaws in the SQLite open source database engine before being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-6965 (CVSS score: 7.2) is a memory corruption flaw that affects all versions prior to 3.50.2. It was discovered by Big Sleep, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent launched by Google last year as part of a collaboration between DeepMind and Google Project Zero. “Attackers who can insert any SQL statement into their application will read the end of the array, as they…
Ellie Gabel is investigating how Energy as a Service (EAAS) can restructure the power sector in a subscription-based model, if it can overcome key challenges. The AS-A-Service model takes over many sectors. These subscription-based frameworks began with software, but then moved into industries such as transportation and manufacturing. Energy as a service is now beginning to grow across utility companies and could change the future of the power economy. At the same time, businesses and policymakers need to be careful to separate true innovation from buzzwords. Rapidling the popularity of EAAS does not necessarily mean that it is the next…
South Australian farmer Hyder Tiller explains his decision to use CH4 Global’s methan tamer seaweed-based food supplement to reduce feedlot methane emissions. This year I made the decision to think that it would change the way we do business in my feedlot forever. After years of testing, they began supplying seaweed supplements to all 1,500 cows at feedlots in South Australia, about two and a half hours north of Adelaide near Port Pilly. It’s a big step, but it makes perfect sense when you look at the broader picture facing numbers and livestock farmers. Methane emissions in the cattle industry…
Elon Musk is a man named to the government after Memecoin, designing a penis-shaped Robotaxi test network and once went to court to tweet weed jokes related to Tesla strains. Therefore, it is not surprising that his company Xai’s first AI companion in the Grok app is a greedy anime girl and a murderous panda. You can see why I had no choice but to ask my boss to buy a $30 “Super Groke” subscription so I can talk to these characters on Tuesday afternoons. Given that Xai has been in the arc of Grok products recently, it’s strange timing…
Cameron John Weigenius, a former US soldier, pleaded guilty to attempting to hack the telecom company and force them by threatening to release stolen files, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. According to the DOJ, Wagenius, who came online under the nickname “Kiberphant0m,” stole his login credentials, conspired to use brute force attacks and other techniques to fraudulent ten victim companies, and used Telegram Group chat to forward stolen credentials and discussed the hack. Wagenius and his co-conspirators have sought to force victims in personal and public places, including hacking forums such as the infamous violation forum. They have committed other…
Three weeks ago, an engineer named Calvin French-Owen resigned from the company, working on one of Openai’s most promising new products. He has published a fascinating blog post about what it’s like to work there for a year, including the sleepless sprint to build codexes. This is Openai’s new coding agent that competes with tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude code. France’s Owen said he didn’t leave because of “drama,” but wanted to return to the startup founder. He is a co-founder of the Customer Data Startup Segment, and bought by Twilio in 2020 for $3.2 billion. Some of his…
META fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view other users’ private prompts and responses generated by AI. Sandeep Hodkasia, founder of security testing company AppSecure, told TechCrunch only that Meta paid him $10,000 in bug prize money for personal disclosure of a bug he filed on December 26, 2024. Meta deployed the fix on January 24, 2025, Hodkasia said, and no evidence of the bug being exploited was found. Hodkasia told TechCrunch that Meta AI has identified the bug after examining how logged in users can edit AI prompts to play text and…
There are few crossings on the Venn diagram of engineers who know a bit about AI, autonomous driving and mining. Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many people as possible. And the acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The San Francisco-based startup has developed autonomous driving systems designed for transport trucks and other off-road vehicles used in construction and mining sites, and has acquired competitor SAFEAI. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. However, Levandowski said the acquisition is a play of talent and technology. The majority of the engineering team of a small 12 startup and…
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former Openai Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, officially shut down its $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. The deal, which includes participation from Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD and Jane Street, values the startup at $12 billion, the spokesman said. In June, Thinking Machines Lab reported that it was close to closing this $2 billion funding at a $10 billion valuation, but apparently the valuation appeared to have occurred last month. The deal is one of the largest seed rounds or first funding…
Lucid Motors is set to deploy software updates on July 30th. This allows for hands-free highway driving, a major step forward in the company’s advanced driver assistance system. The rollout puts Lucid Motors on a short list of companies that have enabled hands-free driving in the US. Ford has a system called BlueCruise, General Motors has a Super Cruise, Mercedes-Benz has a Drive Pilot, but it’s not so widely available. In vehicles equipped with the right conditions and in-cabin cameras, Tesla’s fully self-driving (supervisor) can also be used hands-free. Lucid said the hands-free update has been appearing on Air Sedans…