Altar of Sol: a rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in secret underground rituals
Sol’s altar had a hole drilled in the back to let light in. (Image credit: © National Museums Scotland) simple facts Name: Altar of Sol What it is: a carved sandstone altar Birthplace: Inveresk, Scotland Production date: 2nd century Before construction crews began building a new cricket pavilion at Lewisvale Park, just east of Edinburgh, […]
Researchers detect ZionSiphon malware targeting Israeli water and desalination OT systems
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged new malware called ZionSiphon that appears to be specifically designed to target water treatment and desalination systems in Israel. The malware, codenamed ZionSiphon by Darktrace, highlights its ability to set persistence, modify local configuration files, and scan for operational technology (OT)-related services on local subnets. According to details from VirusTotal, this […]
Don’t let myths run. But Claude is already in Salesforce
When Kevin Roos of the New York Times described Project Glasswing as a frontier AI model “more powerful than Anthropic has released to the public,” he wasn’t sensationalizing. That’s the correct reading. Anthropic built something so capable that they decided the responsible thing to do was to gate it behind a coalition of 50 organizations […]
Contextual AI hack-related Vercel breach exposes limited customer credentials
Ravi LakshmananApril 20, 2026Cloud security/data breach Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allowed malicious parties to gain unauthorized access to “certain” Vercel internal systems. The incident stemmed from a breach of Context.ai, a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) tool used by the company’s employees. “The attacker used that access to take over […]
OpenAI’s existential questions | Tech Crunch
OpenAI has been all over the news lately, whether it’s about acquisitions, competition with Anthropic, or the larger conversation about AI’s impact on society. In the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I do our best to round up all the latest news in OpenAI. While the company’s latest acquisition […]
12 Month Window | Tech Crunch
On a recent episode of the excellent podcast “No Priors,” co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil, Gil made a point about exit timing that will no doubt be familiar to founders who have spent time with him, but one that seems especially useful in this moment when the deal is in full […]
Blue Origin’s New Glenn puts customer satellite in wrong orbit during third launch
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin on Sunday successfully repurposed one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time, but the company failed in its primary mission to deliver a communications satellite into orbit for customer AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile issued a statement Sunday afternoon saying the upper stage of its New Glenn rocket […]
Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ culture
Monitoring and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it calls a 22-part “brief” summary of CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic. “Technology Republic,” written by Karp and Palantir Executive Director Nicholas Zamiska, was published last year and the authors described it as “the beginning of clarifying the theory” behind Palantir’s work. (One reviewer said […]
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters asset maximization era
Welcome to TechCrunch Mobility. A hub for learning about the future of transportation and how AI is playing a role now more than ever. To receive this in your inbox, sign up for free here. Just click on TechCrunch Mobility. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Uber seems to be everywhere at once […]
Loneliness may increase risk of memory loss, but not necessarily dementia
Loneliness is something most of us experience at some point. It’s a normal emotion and not a character flaw. But it’s also something that can quietly influence the way we think and remember, and researchers have long debated whether it might even increase the risk of dementia. New research published in [the journal] Aging and […]
