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Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Update 4/19/26: Added additional information from Vercel that was disclosed after publishing. — Cloud development platform Vercel …
A humanoid robot just beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes in Beijing

A humanoid robot named Lightning completed the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by nearly seven minutes. The robot, built by Shenzhen Honor Smart Technology Development Co., navigated the 21-kilometre course autonomously, without remote control, using multi-sensor fusion and real-time decision-making algorithms. A second Lightning unit, […]
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Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’
Marc Malkin, Variety:
Jessica Chastain says Apple TV is finally going to release her political thriller series “The Savant.” [...]
“Before it was like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to see it,’ but now I can say, ‘We’re going to see it,’” Chastain told me exclusively on Saturday at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica.
As for when, sources tell me that Apple is planning for a July release.
Previously, re: The Savant’s limbo release date.
Sources: the US NSA is using Mythos Preview; one source says Mythos is also being widely used within the DoD, despite Anthropic's supply chain risk designation (Axios)
Axios:
Sources: the US NSA is using Mythos Preview; one source says Mythos is also being widely used within the DoD, despite Anthropic's supply chain risk designation — - The department moved in February to cut off Anthropic and force its vendors to follow suit.