Alex Nguyen

Tesla Cybertruck owner believed Elon Musk when he said it could cross a lake — now he’s in jail. A Tesla Cybertruck owner drove his electric pickup truck into Grapevine Lake in Texas to test the vehicle’s “Wade Mode” feature. electrek.co/2026/05/19/tes…

Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport in New York has unveiled Bridget, a life-sized, hyper-realistic AI hologram that can hold a real conversation – answering questions about gates, baggage claims, and VIP lounges. newatlas.com/technology/pro…

Caught Off Guard: Securing AI After It Hits Production. As enterprises rush AI projects into production, security teams are increasingly being forced into reactive mode. securityweek.com/caught-off-gua…

OpenAI could file to go public as soon as this week. The ChatGPT maker, valued at $852 billion, is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and is targeting an IPO as early as September. qz.com/openai-ipo-con…

AI-Powered App Attacks Are Faster, More Frequent and Harder to Stop. Latest threat report warns that agentic AI has erased the distinction between emerging and primary targets, enabling attackers to strike mobile apps within hours of release. securityweek.com/ai-powered-app…

America's power grid can't keep up with AI demand. Grid engineers, utility executives, and regulators describe a system where permitting, supply chains, and queues can't match the speed of data center growth. qz.com/us-power-grid-…

I Tried Running AI Agents on My MacBook. MLX Was Too Slow. Then I Found oMLX. How a 35B parameter model went from "impossibly slow" to "production-ready" on my MacBooks — real benchmarks, real numbers, no hype.' freedium-mirror.cfd/https://blog.g…

Microsoft released two new red teaming tools — Rampart and Clarity — meant to help developers design more secure agentic software and assist incident responders in the face of ongoing breaches. cyberscoop.com/microsoft-ramp…

Google’s Surge in Chrome Vulnerability Discoveries Likely Driven by AI. More than 200 vulnerabilities patched in recent Chrome releases are marked as ‘reported by Google’. securityweek.com/googles-surge-…

Microsoft Self-Service Password Reset abused in Azure data theft attacks. A threat actor targeting Microsoft 365 and Azure production environments is stealing data in attacks that abuse legitimate applications and administration features. bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

A contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-a…

People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal. Humans consistently perceive AI systems as more confident in their answers than humans, even when the responses they generate are the same as those provided by humans. phys.org/news/2026-05-p…

Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both. Animations and transparency require CPU and GPU time, and often something that looks nice gets in the way of being efficient. howtogeek.com/windows-11-loo…

The Islamic Republic wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz, and state-linked media outlets have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay. cnn.com/2026/05/17/mid…

A player accused of leaking early footage of the Xbox-exclusive Forza Horizon 6 has reportedly been hit with one of the wildest punishments gaming has seen in years: a ban lasting nearly 8,000 years. tech.yahoo.com/gaming/article…

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered in Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI tool, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a victim’s machine by tricking them into clicking a specially crafted deeplink. cybersecuritynews.com/claude-code-rc…

Samsung avoids worst-case strike scenario as court restricts union action. The ruling limits disruption at Samsung's chip plants as 45,000 workers prepare for a walkout. techspot.com/news/112434-sa…

American Jobs with AI Exposure Really Are Starting to Disappear, Data Show. It's a slight drop so far, but a bleak trend nonetheless. gizmodo.com/american-jobs-…

Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11. The company’s AI strategy is fundamentally failing to connect with real users, spurring calls for a massive internal “factory reset.” windowslatest.com/2026/05/17/for…

The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing. archive.ph/hsqzZ