A U.S. federal judge has rejected the Justice Department's attempt to force Google to sell its advertising exchange, AdX, delivering another major setback to U.S. antitrust enforcers trying to dismantle parts of Big Tech's most powerful companies. Editorial credit: 24K-Production / Shutterstock The ruling does not mean Google won the underlying case. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema previously found that Google had illegally monopolized key parts of the digital advertising

A newly launched dark web service is offering access to more than 153 million scanned U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses, prompting an FBI investigation into an apparent breach at identity verification company IDScan.net. The massive trove was uncovered by KrebsOnSecurity was alerted to the existence of a service called Nexus, claiming to hold identity documents belonging to more than 170 million people across North America. The service offered more than 153 million driver’s

3. Bus The commercial autonomous vehicle sector reached a double milestone this week as Tesla officially launched its purpose-built Cybercab service in Austin, Texas, while UK autonomous driving startup Wayve joined forces with Uber to deploy the first self-driving ride-hailing fleet in London. The simultaneous rollouts represent two distinct philosophies in physical AI; Tesla's reliance on custom hardware and vision-only models versus Wayve's end-to-end foundation model depl

Researchers in Germany and Japan have demonstrated a radically different approach to keeping computer hardware cool: use the heat itself to generate cooling, without electricity. The technology is still a laboratory prototype, but researchers say it could eventually cool computer processors and other electronics using waste heat that would otherwise be discarded. Turning Waste Heat Into Cold The system uses two incredibly thin nickel-titanium foils with different jobs. The fi

A seemingly harmless request to summarize a website can be enough to trick Anthropic’s Claude Code into downloading and executing malicious code, according to security researcher Johann Rehberger. The demonstration targets Claude Code running Claude Opus 5 in its default Auto Mode. Rehberger, known online as “wunderwuzzi,” found that a malicious website could embed hidden instructions designed to manipulate the coding agent into taking actions the user never explicitly reques