DoorDash’s cute delivery robot Dot launched in the fall of 2025 and has gotten all the attention, but Dot’s success, of course, was the result of a massive amount of back-end work. The company’s labs team developed an autonomous delivery platform that integrates...

These six midsize companies (between 51 and 200 employees) earned Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 category winner status. BIOptimizers, Reno, NV David&Goliath, El Segundo, CA Gamefam, Los Angeles Go Lime, North York, Ontario Roto, Dublin, OH Valence, New...

These nine small companies (50 employees or fewer) impressed Fast Company judges for their efforts to foster cultures of innovation, earning Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 recognition. Excetera, New York Fundamentalco, New York INK Communications, Austin...

Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 judges recognized these eight companies for encouraging innovation among skilled tradespeople. Clayco, Chicago Craftsmen Industries, St. Charles, MO GE Appliances, Louisville, KY Land O’Lakes, Arden Hills, MN...

These seven companies stood out to Fast Company judges as winners in the technology and science category of Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026.  Autodesk, San Francisco CodeSignal, San Francisco FlexGen, Durham, NC Generate:Biomedicines, Somerville, MA Google,...

Frontline employees at Chipotle spotted that time-intensive prep and grilling work limited food throughput and consistency at the chain’s restaurants. In response, Chipotle introduced a High-Efficiency Equipment Package, developed through rapid iteration by the...

Claude Code began as an internal tool used by Anthropic engineers to help test AI models and assist with coding projects. It quickly got picked up across the company as developers saw their colleagues using it, and its popularity suggested commercial potential. The...

Planet Labs operates the world’s largest Earth-imaging satellite fleet, producing more than 3 terabytes per day of high-resolution images that alert government agencies, researchers, media, and others to potential environmental disasters and global security risks....

Physical passport stamps are becoming less common, but an American Express survey found that 73% of adults want more ways to digitally commemorate their trips abroad. A manager at American Express had an idea: turning card transactions into virtual collectible stamps,...

A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all...

Britain's publicly owned energy system operator has awarded Palantir a £21.2 million contract without competition, extending a relationship that began under private ownership three years earlier. The National Energy System Operator (NESO) handed the US spy-tech firm...

Dubbed MikroTrick, the bugs allow attackers to bypass authentication, overwrite configuration files, and take over devices. The post MikroTik Patches Critical Flaws Chained to Hack Routers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations.

Meetings rarely bring us joy. Many are inefficient, boring, stream-of-consciousness downloads: the same people dominating the conversation, too many people in the room, and too few decisions. Meetings aren’t necessarily painful because people have nothing to...

Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging. His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes. Ok, that didn’t work out, but would you believe 1024 bytes of source code? The goal was to...

Hackers stole the information of students, teachers, staff, and parents/guardians from a self-hosted Metabase instance. The post Mathspace Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Administrators are advised to check their deployments for newly created user accounts they don’t recognize. The post N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a UK class action alleging that it shared users' personal data, including information about their HIV status, with third parties. Grindr is a location-based dating and social networking app primarily aimed...

Apache disclosed Log4Shell on December 9–10, 2021. As I write this, that's closing in on five years ago — long enough that it should be ancient history, a war story security teams tell new hires. It isn't. Talk to anyone who was on call that week and you'll hear the...

Somewhere this quarter, a team spun up a cluster of GPU instances for a training run, left them running over a long weekend because nobody wrote down whose job it was to tear them down, and walked into Monday with a bill that made someone's stomach drop. That scenario...

TL;DR: Zero-knowledge proofs let you prove a chess move was legal, or that a game ended in checkmate, without revealing the moves themselves. A small cluster of hackathon projects and research efforts — zkautochess, a Mina-based build called ZeroKing, a play-by-email...

Seven Essays on Ranking, Relevance, and the Future of Discovery Series thesis Every social or entertainment product makes a promise about what deserves a person's attention. Ranking is where that promise becomes executable. This series argues that relevance is not...

Gaze control has always felt like a luxury feature. The good hardware, such as Tobii bars, dedicated IR trackers, costs more than the games you'd play with it, and every tutorial seems to assume you already own one. So I asked the obvious question: how far can I get...