N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won’t Save You.
Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn that diff back into a working exploit, and you can hit every system that hasn't updated...
1Password’s New Claude Integration Lets the AI Platform Log In for You
Are you willing to place this much trust in generative AI?
Valve’s Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support
Valve and Collabora are building an Arm64 port of Arch Linux for the Steam Frame VR gaming platform, with hopes that the work will eventually feed into the upstream distro. Arch Linux has spawned a whole family of derivatives, but the official upstream distro targets...
CISO Conversations: Andreas Gaetje – From Economics to CISO at Körber AG
Gaetje’s story shows that you don’t need to be a ‘deep bit-crawler’ to become a Chief Information Security Officer. The post CISO Conversations: Andreas Gaetje – From Economics to CISO at Körber AG appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack
Hackers exfiltrated personal, financial, and health information from the company’s Oracle EBS instance in August 2025. The post Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years
Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to folks at Java developer conferences as an example of how it was going to revolutionize smart wearable...
Sony files another lawsuit against AI music generator Udio
Sony, the only major music label that has yet to sign a deal with Udio, has sued the AI music generator again.
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one of a pair of Viking spacecraft, landed on Mars on July 20, 1976. Launched on August 20, 1975, Viking 1 arrived in orbit around Mars on June 19, 1976. The Viking program is,...
The coming burnout from managing AI agents
Technology leaders are very comfortable talking about productivity. We can discuss automation rates, developer velocity, cost curves, and defect rates with great confidence. We are less comfortable talking about mental strain, especially when the thing creating the...
Want to live forever? There’s a house for that
Kas Bordier sells her clients a vision of longer, healthier, and constantly measured lives—one that’s perfectly attuned to today’s optimized pursuit of health. As the founder of Mavi, a new architecture firm and consultancy, Bordier offers homeowners the option to...
Trump’s proposed ban on Kimi and other Chinese AI models could strengthen Beijing’s hand
The Trump administration has had plenty of targets in its sights in recent months. The newest are China’s cutting-edge AI models. Following the release of Kimi K3, the latest model from Moonshot AI, the White House is reportedly considering options that could...
Meta Pays $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data
A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Pays $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data
A security researcher discovered a broken access control vulnerability in Meta’s support infrastructure. The post Meta Paid $78,000 Bounty for Vulnerability Exposing Customer Support Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Post-World Cup, can host cities turn their investments into long-term social impact?
The 2026 World Cup has been a real moneymaker for FIFA. Revenues from TV broadcasting rights, ticket sales, and other commercial sources are projected to amount to nearly $11 billion, making it the most financially successful event in the international soccer...
Trump wants to ‘max out’ Air Force One
President Donald Trump said his new Air Force One needs to be upgraded. “It has a lot of capability,” Trump said Sunday, but “in about a month or so, they’re gonna send it to have it be maxed out.” He said it would take “about a month,” but did not share any details...
AI Governance In High-Stakes Finance: Radhika Venugopal
The integration of Generative AI into financial services presents unprecedented opportunities alongside complex regulatory challenges. Institutions are actively seeking pathways to deploy advanced artificial intelligence without compromising the integrity of legacy...
Judge Spotlight: Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana, on Powering AI with Decentralized Compute
This interview is part of the Judge Spotlight series for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, where we sit down with our judges to explore their work, perspectives, and advice for builders. As a judge for the Decentralize AI Hackathon, Sjoerd Dijkstra, Co-Founder of Nosana,...
QIE Blockchain: The Identity Layer of Web3
Making crypto as simple as sending an email. Bitcoin solved digital money. Ethereum introduced smart contracts. But one problem still affects almost every blockchain today: Identity doesn’t exist. Every wallet is just a long string of random characters....
How to Price Commercial Open Source
Most COSS founders pick a number too early and then guard it like a fortress. They settle on something that feels defensible, publish it, and refuse to touch it again, because changing prices feels like breaking a promise. The instinct is backwards. A price is a...
The Anatomy of AI: A Developer’s Field Guide to the Internals
"There is no ghost in the machine. There is only linear algebra, wearing a very convincing costume."Every time a product manager calls an AI system "smart" in a standup, somewhere an ML engineer flinches. Not because the word is entirely false, but because the actual...
BiRefNet ToonOut: Anime Background Removal With 99.5% Accuracy
Overviewbirefnet-toonout is a fine-tuned version of BiRefNet specialized for anime-style background removal. Created by sprited, this model packages work by Matteo Muratori and Joël Seytre that improves pixel accuracy from 95.3% to 99.5% on anime test sets by...
Kimi K3 Signals a New Threat to US AI Dominance
Image AI-generated by the author with Google Gemini Flash Image Introduction The world moved today. Something which I never thought would happen until the end of the year - maybe December 2026 - happened today. An Open Weights Chinese Large Language Model matched...
Why Brainstorming Fails Engineering Teams — And What Actually Works Instead
Most engineering teams have some ritual sitting between "here's our strategy for the year" and "here's what's in this sprint." That middle layer — quarterly planning — is where a lot of teams quietly waste time: long meetings, unclear priorities, and decisions that...
Navigating Claude Code: Agent Teams in Practice
Previously in series The Bare Minimum Setup CLAUDE.md Done Right Models, Tiers, and Effort The Context Window Tax Hooks That Guard Your Code MCP Servers Worth Adding Skills That Actually Fire Subagents Done Right Introduction Claude Code already spawns agents without...
Agentic SRE: What Happens When AI Doesn’t Just Suggest Fixes, It Applies Them
For years, AI has played an advisory role in operations. It analyzed logs, correlated alerts, identified probable root causes, and suggested remediation steps, while engineers remained responsible for deciding what to do next.With the rise of Agentic AI, systems are...
Watching the Washing Machine: What Employees With Agency Do With the Time AI Just Gave Them
By Jessica McNellis and Chris Gale Private capital is past the point of asking whether AI works. Advisors who'd never written a line of code are now building prospect utilities and portfolio models in a weekend, work that used to sit in a three- or...
Why Data Sovereignty Is Becoming a Non-Negotiable for Business Leaders
The data stored in the Cloud is in a very real, geographic place, and those data centers can be exposed to real-world risk. Because of this risk, some businesses are turning away from the pure data efficiency play and are making data sovereignty a new priority.What Is...
Lemonade vs State Farm Renters Insurance: 2026 Comparison
Every renter who's tried to buy coverage online has hit the same wall: you want a quick answer, and the insurance company wants you to schedule a call with an agent. That frustration drives the Lemonade vs State Farm debate. One company eliminated agents from the...
Your Outfit Is Your Pitch Deck
Welcome to the only industry on earth where dressing badly on purpose is a competitive advantage, where a $14 t-shirt can carry more authority than a $4,000 blazer. Tech founders looked like I'm Daria Strategy. I work with founders and tech teams on go-to-market and...
The Author Is Not the Writer: Why AI-Assisted Writing Doesn’t Erase Authorship
One common criticism of AI-assisted writing is that it disrespects the reader — and that there is no real authorship behind it. The assumption is simple: if AI helped write it, the author avoided the work and therefore is not really the author. I think this gets the...