Fixes zero-day exploit affecting Apple, iOS, macOS, and Apple devices
Ravi LakshmananFebruary 12, 2026Zero-day/vulnerabilities Apple on Wednesday released updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS to address a zero-day flaw that the company says was exploited in a sophisticated cyber attack. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20700 (CVSS score: N/A) and is described as a memory corruption issue in dyld, Apple’s dynamic […]
xAI publicly announces its interplanetary ambitions
On Wednesday, xAI took the unusual step of publishing the entire 45-minute all-hands meeting video on X, making it publicly accessible. Details of Tuesday night’s meeting were previously reported by the New York Times, and may have influenced xAI’s decision to post the video online. The entire video reveals important new details about Musk’s AI […]
AI inference startup Modal Labs is in procurement talks at a valuation of $2.5 billion, sources say
Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is in talks with VCs about a new round valued at about $2.5 billion, according to four people familiar with the deal. If the deal closes on these terms, the latest funding round would be more than double the $1.1 billion valuation of the $87 million […]
Newly discovered radio signals from the center of the galaxy could put Einstein’s theory of relativity to the test
Is there an ultra-dense core of a gigantic star lurking at the center of the Milky Way? Scientists think they may have discovered just that. It’s a signal from a pulsar, the fast-rotating core of an ancient star at the center of our galaxy. This unusual discovery could be used to test the predictions of […]
Elon Musk suggests successive xAI withdrawals were a push, not a pull
Elon Musk is dealing with a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders leaving the company this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12. At Tuesday night’s all-hands meeting, Musk suggested the exit was about fit, not performance. “Now that we’ve reached a certain size, we’re going to organize […]
Microsoft announced that hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day bug to target Windows and Office users.
Microsoft has released fixes for security vulnerabilities in Windows and Office that the company says are actively being exploited by hackers to break into people’s computers. This exploit is a one-click attack, meaning a hacker can plant malware or gain access to a victim’s computer with minimal user interaction. At least two flaws could be […]
How to join a16z’s highly competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program
Without a doubt, one of the hottest new startup accelerators in the tech industry right now is Andreessen Horowitz’s Speedrun program. The accelerator, scheduled to launch in 2023, has an acceptance rate of less than 1%. The program said in a blog post in January that more than 19,000 startups had participated, but less than […]
Our dominant dark matter theory may be wrong, hinting at a huge new gravity study
Physicists’ main theories about the nature of the universe may be wrong, new research into strangely distorted light suggests. A new study investigated three major theories about dark matter, the invisible matter that makes up much of the universe and provides structure to most galaxies, but we still don’t know exactly what it is. For […]
Why are the economics of orbital AI so cruel?
In a sense, this was inevitable. Elon Musk and his coterie have been talking about AI in space for years, primarily in the context of Iain Banks’ sci-fi series about a far-future universe where sentient spaceships roam and control the galaxy. Now, Musk sees an opportunity to realize a version of this vision. His company, […]
How AI will change math for startups, according to Microsoft VP
Microsoft’s Amanda Silver has been dedicated to helping developers for 24 years. And for the past few years, that has meant building tools for AI. After a long stint at GitHub Copilot, Silver is now corporate vice president of Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where he works on tools for deploying apps and agent systems within enterprises. […]