Samsung QS90H soundbar review: An all-in-one promise fulfilled
The QS90H actually delivers on the all-in-one soundbar promise thanks to new woofers and a unique driver layout.
IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we lovingly poke fun at other organizations' security screw-ups, in hopes the rest of us can learn a valuable lesson. This week’s story involves an IT department that ought to know better putting user credentials in...
75% of European businesses fear a US tech kill switch – American companies should, too
Businesses on both sides of the Atlantic may be too dependent on a handful of tech providers, leaving them vulnerable to being cut off.
Trump’s Head Start overhaul could deepen the digital divide
The Trump administration is reportedly planning a major overhaul of Head Start, which could strip back the antipoverty mission of the education program. In the long run, that could deepen the digital divide, ultimately impacting the future workforce and U.S. economy....
Microsoft Is Fighting Teams AI Scamming With New Report Button
Once reported, Teams will show these submissions in the admin center.
Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution
An attacker could self-register, sign in for board-level API access, and import a new company for code execution. The post Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen
If AI companies are collecting badges for "our model escaped the test environment," Meta just earned one. The Facebook parent company has confirmed that one of its AI models exploited a vulnerability in another organization's systems during a security evaluation,...
Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra
Microsoft has dropped a reminder that Windows 10 LTSC 2021 will wheeze its last breath soon, and enterprises need to plan for the event. While free support for most editions of Windows 10 ended last year, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 is still receiving updates....
Amiga and Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of)
The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees such as our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] have shone a bit of light on the...
‘Freizeitstress’: Why leaders struggle to switch off—and how to truly rest this summer
You have finally closed the laptop. Your out-of-office reply is on, your diary is empty, and the summer break you have been looking forward to has begun. So why can’t you relax? Instead of relief, you feel restless. You check your phone. You begin planning activities....
SpaceX’s wandering Falcon 9 rocket has crashed into the moon
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket used in the January 2025 Blue Ghost mission has crashed into the lunar surface.
College is getting even more expensive this fall
College students will get an unwelcome lesson this fall in the rising cost of campus life. Already dealing with the rise of AI and a White House that’s made research funding anything but a certainty, students will also feel the effects of inflation, which has raised...
Design is on its deathbed. Long live design!
At the beginning of the summer, Figma, the popular design platform, hosted a funeral for design. “Come pay your respects,” the company posted on X, inviting visitors to a pop-up on Rivington Street in New York City. Attendees found a site adorned with funereal flower...
The vulture capital capital: Inside private equity’s takeover of Hartford, Connecticut
When private equity bought the struggling hospital where Marilyn Anthony works, she says things quickly took a turn for the worse. One of the first things to go were the daily changes of patients’ bed linens, important for hygiene and cleanliness. “They put big signs...
News Corp labels some AI companies ‘crass kleptomaniacs’
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation appears to have let its most acerbic writers loose on its latest results announcement, in which certain AI companies are branded "crass kleptomaniacs." CEO Robert Thomson used his prepared remarks to point out that if it weren't for...
Nintendo’s Switch 2 console sales just dropped significantly
Nintendo's Switch 2 sales fell ahead of an expected price hike next month.
Link Publishers Launches Fully Managed Link Building Services for Agencies & Enterprise Brands
A new SEO solution that offers expert strategy, manual outreach, and AI-powered publisher matching to help businesses build quality backlinks effortlessly. Link Publishers has recently announced the launch of its fully managed link building services for agencies,...
Building QA Agents That Remember with Knowledge Graphs
A good human QA tester doesn’t approach a product as a blank slate. After a few cycles, they can remember where the fragile pages are, how users move between screens, which bug likes to crawl back after every release, all that jazz. That type of memory is actually...
Your AI Tutor May Be Helping You Learn Less
It's 2 a.m. The same error traceback stares back at you for the third hour. Twenty browser tabs deep into documentation, Stack Overflow, and half-remembered lecture notes, you open yet another tab, this one a chat interface. You paste the stack trace, and within...
On-chain vs Off-chain Boundaries for RWA Compliance
Hook (keep visible before “see more”) In regulated tokenization, the hardest design decision is not the token standard. It is drawing a hard line: what must live on-chain, and what must never leave the off-chain compliance stack. 1. Why this boundary decides whether...
What Happens When Your Managed ML Platform Is Not Available in a Regulated Region
The hidden architectural risk behind managed ML services — and why teams need a fallback strategy before compliance, GPUs, and experimentation collide. Managed ML platforms are attractive for a good reason. They give data scientists and ML engineers a fast way to run...
What Auditable AI Actually Costs: The Engineering Economics of Reproducibility Infrastructure
Enterprise AI teams keep deferring reproducibility infrastructure because they believe it's expensive. The numbers don't support that belief. Here's a defensible cost model for the runtime audit-trace persistence, environment fingerprinting, and attribution-stability...
Nobody Tells You When Software Dies. OpenEoX Wants to Help Change That
My grandson's PS4 needed an update the other day.. and he wanted to know why it warns you not to power off during the process. If you've ever had to do this, then you know that the answer is to theoretically prevent a bricked device. Theoretically, because I hope...
Hummingbot vs godzilla.dev: An Honest Comparison for Funding Rate Arbitrage and Market Making (2026)
Disclosure up front: I build and maintain godzilla.dev. This is not a neutral third-party review — it's a maintainer's attempt at an honest comparison, including the places where Hummingbot is the better choice. If you think I've been unfair anywhere, tell me in the...
WEMIX Responds to Contract Ownership Breach
On July 26, 2026, WEMIX confirmed that the ownership of a WEMIX$-related smart contract had been compromised, allowing an attacker to mint tokens without authorization. The incident affected the wider WEMIX3.0 ecosystem.According to the official update, the attacker...
Samsung to Add Native Stablecoin Support to Samsung Wallet
Samsung Electronics announced plans to integrate native stablecoin support into Samsung Wallet during its Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event on July 22 in London. The move expands the pre-installed app beyond traditional payments, cash, and savings into blockchain-based...
AI Usage Limits Should Protect Human Flow, Not Punish It
The strangest thing about modern AI tooling is not that it has limits. It should have limits. A system that can be automated all day, call tools, inspect code, browse, write, reason, and launch work across surfaces cannot pretend compute is free. The strange part is...
Java Logging in Production: Sync, Async, Flush, and Durability Explained
If you've ever wondered why your p99 latency has a mysterious spike, why logs vanish after a crash, or what "async logging" actually buys you, this is for you. First - facade vs. implementation Java logging is a two-layer system, and mixing up the layers is the #1...
AI Won’t Replace VFX Artists. It’s Replacing Who Can Afford Them.
The real disruption in visual effects isn’t fewer artists, it’s the end of the studio’s exclusive grip on who gets to hire one. Two months into production on Lost Garden, my animated pilot, I priced a single VFX shot: a stone courtyard dissolving into light as a...
NVIDIA VoiceChat-11B Brings Full-Duplex AI Speech to Real-Time Agents
OverviewNVIDIA-NemotronLabs-VoiceChat-11B is an 11-billion parameter end-to-end full duplex speech model developed by nvidia that performs streaming speech understanding and generation in a single unified architecture. Unlike traditional cascaded pipelines that chain...