Before December 2017, the world's fastest growing grain export region hedged bilaterally or not at all. The contracts that changed that deserve more credit than they get, including for what happened when the market underneath them disappeared. By François Mégret...

As cybersecurity teams look to AI to automate more of their operations, the biggest challenge is no longer simply detecting threats. It is deciding what to do about them without creating a larger problem. That challenge is putting greater emphasis on context,...

AI coding agents are getting better at navigating repositories, tracing dependencies, editing multiple files, running tests, and fixing their own mistakes. Give one a reasonably structured codebase and a well-defined task, and it can already do work that once required...

Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and control devices — while doubling as a health tracker.

Microsoft debuts Surface Laptop Ultra alongside other major manufacturers.

The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence (AI) pen testing tool named ARTEX to carry out the attacks. The activity, per CrowdStrike Intelligence, was...

Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” input jack that let you connect other audio sources to the smart speaker. Alexa would even let you switch over to an external source with a...

The security defects could lead to unauthorized access, information leaks, privilege escalation, DoS attacks, and remote code execution. The post Cisco Patches a Dozen Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET infostealer and remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed ASHVEIN. According to TrendAI, the malware has been put to use in attacks targeting Ukrainian government...

Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which...

“Is Ambani the real boss of India?” Elon Musk asked as he questioned why Starlink has yet to launch its satellite internet service in the country.

ArtCraft has added alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to its growing collection of Rust applications, which it describes as "clean-room reimplementations" of proprietary software. The projects lean heavily on Claude for development and remain...