The U.S. National Security Agency’s sent out an alarming warning on Wednesday that two critical holes had been found in PHP, with patches already issued by the PHP Foundation.
PHP is a server-side programming language so widely used for web applications that it powers roughly 70% of the websites on the internet; by some accounts, that’s more than 33 million sites. It is also used by…
Companies are giving employees AI tools to make them more productive, but the tools appear to be creating new problems for their managers.
More than half of senior leaders say they find it harder to evaluate employees’ work after adopting AI, according to a Nielsen…
“Radiant green airglow” adds a magical finishing touch to this award-winning astrophotographer’s image of New Zealand at night
October 22, 2026
Arriving at Mautohe Cathedral Cove, on New Zealand’s North Island, at sunrise, astrophotographer Evan McKay was “stunned by the beauty of the light.” Noticing the composition with Te Hoho Rock as the centerpiece, framed by the natural curvature of the beach, he planned…
BYD’s new Seagull EV is now its cheapest electric car in China with 5-minute Flash Charging, and starts at under $10,000.
BYD’s second-generation Seagull EV price and range
The all-electric hatchback is BYD’s smallest, most affordable EV in China. Sold as the Dolphin Surf and Dolphin Mini in Europe, the UK, and other global markets, the Seagull is among the world’s top-selling EVs.
For…
A fleet of 74 school buses have spent the last two years powering about a thousand homes, taking stress off the grid, thanks to V2G chargers built in America.
If you’ve spent much time around the electric vehicle space, you may have heard about vehicle-to-grid, perhaps by…
Polestar and the University of Oxford put 12 drivers in eye trackers and heart-rate monitors and sent them around a Swedish racetrack in two versions of the Polestar 4. The goal was to put numbers on something no spec sheet captures: how performance feels to the person…
Pentagon AI oversight office struggles to keep pace with department’s ambitions, GAO finds
October 22, 2026
The Pentagon office tapped in 2022 to oversee the military’s responsible use of artificial intelligence had filled just three of its 10 authorized positions for the mission as of February 2026, even as the department pursues a strategy to accelerate AI development, a government watchdog found.
The Government Accountability Office discovered that 29 of 64 efforts outlined in the Defense…
German military raises sabotage threat level amid warning of Russian attacks: report
October 22, 2026
VIENNA — Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, has raised its assessment of the Russian sabotage threat to its second-highest level, warning that German forces themselves could face attacks at home, according to a classified internal analysis reported by public broadcaster…
Europe weighs giving utilities, infrastructure companies more powers to bring down drones
October 22, 2026
At a former flight-test base south of Paris, drones swoop over fields and woodland as teams on the ground test systems designed to stop them — a response to a growing wave of drone incursions and “hybrid attacks” since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
The potential…
AMD just gave your old Radeon GPU a new lease on life
October 22, 2026
FSR 4.1 is coming to Radeon RX 6000 GPUs way ahead of schedule, along with Ryzen laptops, gaming handhelds, and Xbox consoles.
Credit: Brad Chacos / IDG
AMD’s FSR 4 upscaling technology was a revelation when it debuted last year, delivering the sort of crisp, clean visuals that finally let Radeon go toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s vaunted DLSS. The problem? It only worked on…
