Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you’re good to go. But it turns out you’ll need to…

Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

The Instagram Close Friends Story for @miles.sumrall shows an affable-looking guy with curly dark hair and an expertly groomed mustache beaming as he floats on…

You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly

Writing AI Lab each week means I occasionally encounter AI models that behave badly and bizarrely. Usually, there’s nothing to be done about it, save…

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to extend an existing guardrail to prevent users…

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

As a security researcher who specializes in finding web vulnerabilities, he decided to poke around Front Gate’s web domain for bugs. He quickly found what…

Oracle Strengthens Defense Ecosystem to Help Emerging Technology Companies Prepare Mission-Ready Capabilities

Jul 1, 2026 Oracle announced the third cohort of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, adding 10 defense technology companies delivering mission-critical AI, cyber, secure communications, operational…

Percona and HexaCluster Collaborate to Help Enterprises Move from Legacy Databases to Open Source

Jul 1, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Percona, a provider of open source database software and services, is partnering with HexaCluster, a PostgreSQL migration and services…

Incorta Intelligence Moves Business Users Beyond Dashboards

Incorta, a pioneering open data delivery platform, is announcing general availability of Incorta Intelligence, a unified decision intelligence platform that enables organizations to move beyond…

OceanBase Debuts AI Database, Introducing A New Product Portfolio Unifying Multimodal Data, Real-Time Analytics, and AI Agents

Jul 1, 2026 By Stephanie Simone OceanBase is debuting OceanBase AI Database, a comprehensive portfolio designed to enable enterprises to manage multimodal data, deliver real-time…

Oracle Showcases its Deep Data Security Solution

Jul 1, 2026 Oracle is introducing Oracle Deep Data Security, shifting enforcement to where the data lives along with making controls explicit, inspectable, and reusable…