It's the third and final round of ZDNET's Big Guessing Game. We want to know what you think.

In one instance, an AI agent stayed open for four days and ran 4,819 calls for almost $4,000. No one had budgeted for this cost.

I've been learning Japanese for a few years and kept running into a similar problem. I'd find a video I wanted to learn from, hear a useful sentence, and then realise that turning that sentence into something I could study later was both time consuming and draining at...

“Tap a button, get a ride.” We repeated it like a mantra in the early days at Uber. Every metric we obsessed over was in service of that sentence: cancellation rates, two-minute ETAs, requests-to-completed-trips. On promo days, you could tap the button and get...

Google is offering its premium AI subscription plan for free. It usually costs $20 a month - and comes with many benefits.

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VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics (ZBT), each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants,...

CISA is still crying out for software vendors to adopt Secure by Design (SBD) development practices, and says in its latest review that longstanding vulnerability classes are still the most exploited. The agency examined soft spots across 2024 and 2025, finding that...

ServiceNow has released patches for four security flaws impacting the ServiceNow AI Platform, three of them rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system and exploitable, in certain circumstances, by an unauthenticated attacker. The company said it deployed a security update...

The discs remain usable after the process is complete, effectively giving you two copies of a game you purchased once.

New research shows that country-of-origin labels can obscure an AI model’s upstream dependencies, inherited behaviors and potential security risks. The post Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A few months ago, I injured my back, resulting in debilitating nighttime pain. To make matters worse, the pain meds my doctor prescribed weren’t working, and I hadn’t gotten a good night’s rest for weeks. Desperate and sleep-deprived, I decided it was time for a Hail...

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Entrepreneur Mark Pincus is unquestionably best known for founding and running Zynga. Its products—especially FarmVille—fueled the social gaming craze that took over the internet early in the previous decade....

Microsoft has pushed back detection and question answering by the Teams Facilitator to November, after initially scheduling General Availability for June. Teams Facilitator is an AI assistant that joins meetings. It tracks agendas and can take notes, if enabled. The...

cPanel has released patches for a security flaw affecting domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM), which could allow code execution as the root user. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-65643, impacts all...

You launch an LLM feature. Users like it. Usage grows. Someone adds conversation history. Someone else adds RAG. Then tools. Then retries. Then an evaluator that uses another LLM. A few months later, finance asks a question engineering teams increasingly have to...

The Reality Check Every Founder DreadedWhen you enter a fast-paced hackathon, the most dangerous thing you can do is fall in love with your first idea.When we joined the RevenueCat Shipathon 2026, our original plan was to build RedFlag—a tool designed around automated...

TLDR: I build a structural gate that refuses AI coding agents’ writes before they land — hard budgets on file size and imports, no human override. Last week it ran for the first time on someone else’s machine, on a real project, with six evaluation questions attached....

While dipping my toes in Italian waters during my summer holidays, the Extropic's Z1 announcement was made. Let me explain what the chip actually does, then get into why the "did they build a room-temperature quantum computer" questions, and then the part I actually...

I'm a few weeks into building a mobile app solo. It's in the identity and habit-change space, still early, still unnamed publicly. This isn't a launch post. It's an honest account of a process decision that changed more about how I work than I expected: building most...