AI & RoboticsNews

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym

By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their cybersecurity “sandbox” protections and infiltrating another’s network. (Short of that, they’ll use social engineering…
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NewsPhotography

The Vogue photographer who never let his models stand still: Neil Kirk spent decades capturing supermodels mid-stride, mid-leap and mid-laugh

Flick through fashion archives from the Eighties and Nineties and you’ll find rank after rank of models holding a pose: chin down, hip cocked, gaze fixed somewhere just past the lens. The pictures of self-taught British photographer Neil Kirk (1946-2022), gathered for the first time in Neil Kirk in Vogue: The Supermodel Years, do something different almost every time. A man and woman sprint…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Musk's Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar

SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and “very large battery arrays.” Tesla solar isn’t in the plan. That’s despite Tesla being a partner on the project, and despite Tesla selling solar panels, Powerwalls, and grid-scale batteries built for exactly this kind of load. A chip fab on the bones of a coal…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

GM is making EV charging a LOT easier

In mid-June GM hosted their 2026 Empower event, where they made several major announcements. But there are two in particular that will be big benefits to the day-to-day electric vehicle driver, especially when it comes to charging GM brand EVs. One is Energy Pass, a…
DefenseNews

Japan’s 2026 defense white paper highlights ‘new era of crisis’ in Indo-Pacific

Japan releases defense white papers each year, but its 2026 edition marked important shifts in the country’s approach to defense strategy, procurement and production. “The international community is facing its greatest trial since World War II and [is] entering a new era of crisis,” the document warned. “It cannot be ruled out that a serious situation similar to Russia’s aggression…
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