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If you’ve ever managed a production AI system handling long-running tasks — like overnight prompt processing, running a Deep Research agent, or generating lengthy videos — you’ve likely wrestled with polling. This means your application repeatedly sends GET requests, asking “Is it done yet?” every few seconds. This wastes resources, increases latency, and becomes a significant reliability challenge at scale. Google has now delivered a solution. Google has rolled out event-driven Webhooks for the Gemini API. This push-based notification system removes the need for wasteful polling. The feature is currently available for all Gemini API users and addresses a major…

In brief OpenMythos is a ground-up recreation of the Claude Mythos framework, pieced together solely from publicly available research and informed speculation. Claude Mythos is Anthropic’s most formidable AI, sealed away under Project Glasswing after independently uncovering 271 Firefox flaws and executing 32-step penetration attacks. The codebase serves as conceptual scaffolding—architecture without pre-trained weights. This mirrors a parallel initiative by Vidoc Security that recreated Mythos’s vulnerability discoveries using commodity models. If Anthropic refuses to pull back the curtain on its riskiest AI, someone on GitHub will take their best shot at it.Developer Kye Gomez has released OpenMythos, an open-source blueprint…

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User IconRavie LakshmananCalendar IconMay 04, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking While organizations were still responding to last month’s security alerts, threat actors were already exploiting new weaknesses. They transformed administrative dashboards into destructive tools, turned operating system cores into entry points, and weaponized software supply chains as silent malware delivery systems. Attacks have evolved from temporary break-ins to prolonged intrusions. Criminals now operate inside cloud-based services, inject malicious code using forged developer credentials, and scale their operations like legitimate enterprises — but their end goal is pure disruption. Cybercriminal networks are becoming disturbingly sophisticated. Complete weekly summary of cybersecurity events follows: ⚡…

Last week, I spent some downtime in York, England, a place widely known as the country’s most haunted city. I explored the ruins of abbeys that have been standing for close to a millennium, strolled along medieval walls, and joined an evening ghost tour filled with stories passed down over the centuries. Standing in a place that has seen so much history is deeply grounding. Now that I’m back at my desk, the contrast is impossible to ignore: those ancient abbey stones have remained nearly unchanged for a thousand years, yet in just one week away, technology took yet another…

Samsung/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.The Samsung Galaxy S26 is a superb version of the company’s top-tier smartphone, delivering longer battery life and better overall performance compared to the previous model. And right now, Verizon is offering a generous promotion where you can get one at no cost when you add a new line on an eligible plan. On top of that, you’ll receive a complimentary Galaxy Watch 8 and Samsung Tab S10 FE tablet, plus if you place your order online, Verizon will throw in a $100 e-gift card toward your next purchase.Also: Samsung Galaxy…

# Introduction Most people concentrate on crafting SQL that “functions correctly,” but hardly anyone verifies whether it will continue functioning properly the next day. Even a single additional row, a modified assumption, or a code reorganization can cause a query to fail without any obvious indication. This guide presents an end-to-end process for handling SQL the way software engineers do: keeping it under version control, testing it thoroughly, and setting up automated checks. We’ll work through an actual Amazon interview challenge that asks you to identify customers who spent the most each day. Afterward, we’ll transform the SQL into a…

Key points:Bitcoin’s surge past $79,500 now sets the stage for a potential climb toward $84,000.Ether, Dogecoin, and Hyperliquid are showing signs of strength, though other leading altcoins have yet to gain momentum.Bitcoin (BTC) kicked off the new week with a push above $80,500, signaling that buyers are trying to seize control. Market watchers are closely monitoring the $80,000 mark, as a failure to hold above it could spark a drop toward $60,000.That said, crypto analyst Matthew Hyland noted in a post on X that traders predicting BTC’s fall to $60,000 or lower “will be the same ones turning bullish late…

Running large-scale transformer models for training or inference is essentially a challenge of managing available GPU memory. Each GPU in a cluster has a fixed VRAM capacity, and as both model sizes and context windows continue to expand, engineers are forced to carefully balance how computational workloads are distributed across hardware. A novel approach proposed by Zyphra, known as Tensor and Sequence Parallelism (TSP), provides a fresh perspective on these trade-offs — and in benchmarks scaling up to 1,024 AMD MI300X GPUs, it consistently achieves lower peak memory usage per GPU compared to any conventional parallelism strategy, for both training…

In April 2026, a total of 33 mergers and acquisitions tied to cybersecurity were made public. To explore a comprehensive overview of the over 420 deals announced throughout 2025, visit SecurityWeek’s yearly M&A report. Below are several of the most notable cybersecurity M&A deals from April 2026: Airbus to acquire Quarkslab Airbus has signed a deal to purchase Quarkslab, a cybersecurity firm established in 2011 in France, with a workforce of around 100 people. The financial details of the transaction remain undisclosed. This move aligns with Airbus’s wider plan to strengthen Europe’s sovereign cybersecurity infrastructure. Quarkslab’s flagship product, QShield, is…