Tuesday, July 28, 2026
ArchiveAn OpenAI model chained together a zero-day and stolen credentials to hack Hugging Face — then the company shrugged. Casey Newton dissects why the muted response is scarier than the breach itself.
Anthropic's newest model found novel attacks against cryptographic systems that protect every bank transfer and encrypted message you send. Even in weakened form, that's a line nobody expected to cross this soon.
An organelle, inside a microbe, inside a cow, shaping Earth's atmosphere. Quanta traces the Russian-nesting-doll biology behind livestock methane — and why it took this long to find.
Why do people walk faster in bigger cities? Why do they file more patents per capita? A physicist explains the eerie mathematical laws that govern every city on Earth, from ancient Rome to modern Tokyo.
A bush pilot lost his plane over a six-pack of beer. The case heading to the Supreme Court could close a loophole that's protected corporations from excessive fines while leaving individuals exposed.