Thousands of Asus routers have been hacked and are under the control of a suspected China-state group that has yet to reveal its intentions for the mass compromise, researchers said.

The hacking spree is either primarily or exclusively targeting seven models of Asus routers, all of which are no longer supported by the manufacturer, meaning they no longer receive security patches, researchers from SecurityScorecard said. So far, it’s unclear what the attackers do after gaining control of the devices. SecurityScorecard has named the operation WrtHug.

A new benchmark from Artificial Analysis reveals alarming weaknesses in the factual reliability of large language models. Out of 40 models tested, only four achieved a positive score – with Google’s Gemini 3 Pro clearly in the lead.

Gemini 3 Pro scored 13 points on the new Omniscience Index, which ranges from -100 to 100, substantially ahead of Claude 4.1 Opus (4.8), GPT-5.1, and Grok 4. The high score mainly reflects the model’s strong accuracy. Gemini 3 Pro outperformed Grok 4, the previously most accurate model, by 14 points. A score of 0 means a model answers questions correctly and incorrectly at the same rate. The AA-Omniscience Benchmark measures how reliably AI models retrieve factual knowledge across different subject areas.

OpenAI is updating its coding environment with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new model designed to handle massive amounts of context and solve complex engineering tasks that take hours to complete.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, its latest ”agentic” coding model. The company says the system is built specifically for ”long-running, detailed work” and replaces the previous GPT-5.1-Codex as the standard across all Codex interfaces.

Af unny thing happened to our political blowhard class on its way to its next appointed bout of savvy prognosticating. As breathless pundits looked to this week’s handful of off-year elections for telltale signs of the country’s mood swings, the news broke that President Donald Trump has reached a new low in his national approval ratings. In a CNN poll released Monday, 63 percent of respondents disapproved of his performance in office, leaving just 37 percent approving. As polling analyst G. Elliot Morris notes, the 26 point net gap in disapproval is the lowest Trump has ever clocked—even in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, when many observers predicted his political demise.

On Sunday night, Donald Trump abjectly surrendered in one of the most intense political battles of his second term. For months, the White House had been pressuring congressional Republicans to hold the line against a bill that would require the release of Justice Department files connected to late pedophile—and Trump pal—Jeffrey Epstein. But Trump couldn’t get every GOP member to do his bidding. Four Republican representatives—Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace, and Marjorie Taylor Greene—stubbornly joined with every House Democrat to support the bill’s passage.

New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the Trump administration’s approach to climate change.

Increasing temperatures are already killing enormous numbers of people. A ProPublica and Guardian analysis that draws on sophisticated modeling by independent researchers found that President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda of expanding fossil fuels and decimating efforts to reduce emissions will add substantially to that toll, with the vast majority of deaths occurring outside the United States.