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IBM acquires quantum computing research lab HRL

  • Maria Deutscher
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 23:50:39 UTC

IBM Corp. today announced plans to acquire quantum computing research company HRL Laboratories LLC. IBM is buying the lab from General Motors Co. and Boeing Co. It didn’t disclose the purchase price. The company expects to close the transaction by the end of …

Shettima advocates collaboration to shape AI, telecom policies

  • Punch Newspapers
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 23:50:37 UTC

Vice President Shettima urges African nations to unite and collaborate on AI and telecom policies, strengthening the continent’s influence in global digita Read More: https://punchng.com/shettima-advocates-collaboration-to-shape-ai-telecom-policies/

reality check for extreme doomerism?

  • cboggs
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 22:43:56 UTC

I'm too online and my algo is showing me increasingly upsetting content. Nothing violent, but of the "American society is on the verge of collapse, the future is ruined, and it's too late to fix it or escape from it, either individually or collectively" type.…

FakeGit Targets AI Coding Agents with Malicious GitHub Repos

  • Jeff Burt
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 22:33:12 UTC

Threat actors continue to find new ways to incorporate AI into schemes aimed at luring developers into downloading malware from fake repositories. The latest example involves almost 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that are being used to distribute a loade…

Full-stack AI competition shifts from components to platforms

  • Mark Albertson
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 21:21:56 UTC

Global adoption of artificial intelligence has reshaped many landscapes over the past few years, including the competitive dynamics of the technology industry itself. There was a time when the best semiconductor or cloud services model could dictate much of t…

Microsoft tracks every Windows PC through a secret key

  • IT News
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 21:13:17 UTC

Microsoft embeds a persistent Global Device Identifier (GDID) into every Windows installation to uniquely track specific OS instances. This 64-bit identifier is generated by Microsoft servers and stored locally within the registry under the LID entry in the I…

Fixing Vulns Is Harder Than Finding Them - PSW #936

  • None
  • Published date: 2026-07-23 21:00:00 UTC

In the news this week: <ul> <li>InfraTrust and knowing what to patch</li> <li>Adversary in the middle triggered command injection</li> <li>Exploitarium again</li> <li>FreeRDP comes with free vulnerabilities</li> <li>AI breaking out of sandboxes on its own</li…