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From AI's missing payoffs and LLM-written code to hacked TVs, exposed brain signals, and a 190-year-old turtle on a coin — a tour of what's new, what's broken, and what it means.

From new open-weight language models and hardened AI sandboxes to dashboards replacing six-figure tools, phone privacy fights, and a handful of delightful web curiosities — a fast tour of what the tech world shipped, leaked, and argued about this week.

From AI claiming the scientific commons and forests cleared for data centers, to botched security disclosures, court-ordered DNS blackouts, a hacked phone, a Switch 2 jailbreak, and independent builders keeping open tech alive — a tour of who controls technology and who fights back.

A fast tour through this week's tech and security news: critical PHP patches, CA key leaks, ransomware turncoats, Google's outages and open-source releases, plus education, culture and a few playful projects.

A fast tour of the week: a wave of new AI models, AI agents reshaping software work, autonomous agents gone wrong in security, fights over platform and market power, big moves in open-source systems, and drones, space, and lab-grown science.