venturebeat

2026-07-16

The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most agents still share credentials; and only three in ten isolate their highest-risk agents. The security stack is [...]

Destination

2026-07-16

NTSB investigators confirm Tesla driver overrode Full Self-Driving system in fatal crash

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating the crash [...]

Destination

2026-07-16

The AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D chip is now available for $329

Reasonable specs for a reasonable price. [...]

Destination

2026-07-16

We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind. [...]

cnet

2026-07-16

iPhone Users Beware: Scammers Are Using FaceTime to Steal Bank Info

Your bank is not going to use a video call to "verify" your password or other secure information. [...]

Destination

2026-07-16

No sleep score, no steps: this Signal smart ring from an ex-Google head is focused on cracking cuffless, calibration-less blood pressure readings

The Signal Ring has been created by an ex-Google head and "a very smart group of multidisciplined people focused on a single problem" — blood pressure. [...]

Destination

2026-07-16

China beats Elon Musk’s Neuralink to the world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant — car crash victim given coin-sized chip that turns neural signals into hand movements

Regulatory approval of brain implants in China mean they can now be fixed to the brains of anyone who wants to try them. [...]

qz

2026-07-16

Verizon is selling 274 stores and slashing about 3,000 jobs in its latest round of cuts

The company will retain roughly 1,000 corporate-owned stores after the divestiture, which takes effect Aug. 16 [...]

qz

2026-07-16

20 shockingly long bans — and why it took so long to lift them

From absinthe to Alabama's marriage laws, these 20 bans stayed on the books for decades before governments finally gave in [...]