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IEEE SpectrumA robotic disassembly system designed by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany can disassemble defective devices using a method that protects valuable components from damage. The system uses a CAD model and a

TechCrunchU.S. courts will begin publicly reporting how often judges authorize government use of spyware and hacking tools to intercept real-time communications. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts will add a “spyware/hacking” category to

The Hacker NewsResearchers at the U.K.'s University of Birmingham and security firm Fuzzware found that malicious SIM cards can exploit a standardized modem feature called RUN AT to execute attacker-controlled commands on certain cellular IoT devices

Dartmouth NewsDartmouth College's Siddhartha Jayanti (pictured) is expanding access to computer science by developing Telugu technical vocabulary derived from Sanskrit. His work addresses the lack of established terminology and inadequate software

Al JazeeraBrazil will invest more than $440 million to expand its AI infrastructure while balancing technology partnerships between the U.S. and China. About $250 million will support a supercomputing project in Rio de Janeiro involving China’s

TechRadarJapan has advanced its sovereign satellite-navigation capabilities with the successful launch of QZS-7, the latest satellite in its Quasi-Zenith Satellite System. Designed to complement GPS, QZSS addresses positioning gaps caused by Japan’s

GizmodoResearchers at Pennsylvania State University used buried fiber-optic telecom cables to detect tiny ground vibrations caused by lightning, known as “thunderquakes.” Using distributed acoustic sensing, the cables captured signals from 458

NSF NewsThe U.S. National Science Foundation is investing more than $290 million in eight Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes to advance quantum computing, sensing, simulation, and communications. Three of the institutes are new while five existing

BleepingComputerThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave U.S. federal agencies until Sept. 3 to patch two TrueConf Server vulnerabilities being actively exploited. CVE-2026-72529 allows unauthenticated attackers to

CNBCA Chinese state-sponsored hacking group targeted the U.S. Federal Reserve, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and other federal bodies, according to newly unsealed court documents. The