El Niño keeps getting stronger—and the intense weather it is set to bring could be a preview of our future in an even warmer world. This year’s El Niño could become the strongest on record, forecasters say, and that means potentially intense weather impacts, from...

Over the past decade, we have gotten genuinely good at something difficult: finding remarkable entrepreneurs who use technology for good. We’ve built the prizes, the pipelines, the accelerators. What we haven’t cracked is harder: making their solutions truly stick....

It may be game over for gamified token consumption. Tesla spent six months ranking its engineers on internal AI leaderboards by token usage, then thought better of it and capped employee AI spending at $200 per week. This should sound familiar. Uber, Meta, Amazon,...

The most disciplined executives I’ve trained have something in common: they stopped relying on discipline. They know that willpower is the least reliable resource in their arsenal—the same reason they don’t run their P&L on individual heroics, or their pipeline on...

I’ve been programming for about 40 years. Lately, I’ve started creating new programs between meetings. The difference is that I can now hand much of the mechanical work to an AI coding tool, then spend my time fixing the interesting parts. They may not be the best...

Federal court records show how far the FBI’s Pegasus review progressed — and why new US spyware reporting will still leave major gaps in government hacking transparency. The post FBI Pegasus Records Expose a Blind Spot in US Spyware Oversight appeared first on...

Xpander’s platform uses a universal agent harness that executes AI agents as portable workloads and securely renders interfaces on demand. The post Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has named...

Have you ever wanted to run a Linux distribution on your Android device? If so, your best bet is UserLAnd.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete...

There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for Linux, so I asked Canonical's Jon Seager directly.

OpenAI on Tuesday launched ChatGPT for Teens, featuring stronger safety protections and features designed to promote healthy use, along with additional controls for parents. OpenAI says that if its system “estimates” that a user is under 18, that user will...

Forgot your glasses? You can easily use your iPhone to read small text, or words from far away. Here's how.

BORK!BORK!BORK! Europe's airports can be a minefield for the unwary traveler, especially when that traveler inserts a passport into a waiting kiosk and finds Windows staring back. An eagle-eyed Register reader (they said we could use their name, but we will keep them...

Google is leveraging our poor relationship to technology to sell its new phones - the same relationship it had a hand in creating.