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Fashion retailer Revolve has confirmed a data breach affecting at least one hundred eighty thousand customers. Hackers accessed the company's online shopping platform and made off with personal information and payment card data. If you've shopped with Revolve, now is the time to check your statements and consider freezing your card.
Meanwhile, an AI engineer named Divyansh Agrawal has built something that genuinely stops you in your tracks. His project, called Qwenputer, takes a standard large language model and embeds a fully functional thirty-two-bit RISC-V processor directly into its weights. The model doesn't call out to external tools — it runs code, handles arithmetic, and yes, it runs Doom, entirely within itself. It's a fascinating proof of concept about what the boundary between software and hardware might eventually mean.
On a more practical note, Google has raised the stakes in its bug bounty program, offering up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars to security researchers who can demonstrate full administrative control over its cloud infrastructure. That's a significant sum, and a signal that Google is serious about finding its own vulnerabilities before someone else does.
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