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Boston Dynamics engineers detail the five-step reinforcement learning pipeline that taught Atlas to lift over 100 pounds using whole-body control — from animation to factory floor in weeks.
GitHub's npm registry makes staged publishing generally available: packages must pass a human-approved, 2FA-gated queue before consumers can install them.
Attackers rewrote Git tags across four Laravel localization packages to point to malicious forks, poisoning hundreds of versions and deploying a credential stealer targeting cloud keys, SSH, and crypto wallets.
A rare Bundibugyo virus outbreak with no licensed vaccines or treatments has been declared a PHEIC, with over 650 suspected cases and 160 suspected deaths across three DRC provinces and Uganda.
The CNCF announced OpenTelemetry's graduation on May 21, capping seven years of development and a merger of two rival projects into a unified observability standard with 12,000+ contributors.
University of Hong Kong team shows ultrathin polycrystalline diamond membranes generate voltage when bent, overturning the century-old classification of diamond as non-piezoelectric.
Valve added Initial Support for Steam Frame to SteamOS Manager and shipped a Proton 11 ARM64 beta targeting the headset, the clearest software signals yet that the VR headset is approaching release.
Rapid7 links a Chaos ransomware intrusion in early 2026 to Iranian state-linked MuddyWater, finding no encryption deployed — only credential theft and data exfiltration under ransomware cover.
Teams at Imperial College London, University of Michigan, and Tufts University transformed natural silk threads into plastic-like materials that outperform metal alloys, resist punctures like carbon-fiber composites, and polarize terahertz light for potential 6G telecommunications use.
Epic Games released UE 5.8 Preview on May 12, introducing experimental Mesh Terrain, MetaHuman Crowd scaling, a lighter Lumen mode targeting 60fps on handhelds, and MegaLights graduating to production status.
The three largest US carriers announced an agreement in principle on May 14 to form a joint venture that will pool spectrum resources and build shared satellite direct-to-device infrastructure to close coverage gaps in rural and underserved areas.
OpenTofu v1.12.0 lands with variable-driven prevent_destroy, a destroy=false lifecycle flag, and dual output modes — features the Terraform tracker left open since 2016.