Twelve nurses at a New York hospital were laid off after being replaced by AI-powered software, sparking concerns from unions about AI’s impact on patient care quality and healthcare jobs.

Australia’s online safety regulator found significant gaps in how major tech platforms address sexual extortion, with young men aged 18-24 reporting the most complaints during the period examined.

Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may inadvertently allow attackers to consume all available disk space on affected machines, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.

Google awarded $250,000 for disclosure of CVE-2026-53359, a Linux KVM vulnerability allowing guest VMs to escape and gain root access to host machines. A second high-severity flaw in the kernel’s futex system also emerged this week.

Australia’s government bricked thousands of functioning SamKnows routers after a broadband testing program concluded, despite the devices being capable of repurposing as standard Wi-Fi routers.

Scientists and AI researchers increasingly consider machine consciousness possible, raising urgent questions about the moral status of advanced AI systems and how society should prepare for this scenario.

Author Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT has made teachers’ lives harder and prevented students from developing their own writing voices, effectively silencing a generation.

US rare earths producers backed by government funding are selling primarily to Japan and South Korea as domestic demand remains limited despite efforts to build a national supply chain.