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Microsoft is overhauling its Windows Insider Program, which provides early access to new Windows 11 features. The company is introducing significant changes, starting with giving testers the ability to select specific new features they want to try out, offering more control over their preview experience.
A newly analyzed computer virus from over 20 years ago, named fast16.sys, reveals an early Stuxnet-style attack. The malware was designed to selectively target high-precision calculation software, subtly altering results in memory. This highlights a long-standing threat of data manipulation in critical systems.
Actor Matt Ryan, who voices Edward Kenway, has confirmed he filmed new scenes for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake. The new content is intended to add more emotional weight and depth to the main character's personal conflicts and overall journey in the popular game.
A new Linux Foundation report finds that security readiness is the biggest obstacle to AI adoption. A widening gap exists between the rush to deploy AI and the ability to secure it. The report notes 67% of teams face pressure to accelerate deployment despite security risks.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified four malicious packages on the npm registry: `chalk-tempalte`, `@deadcode09284814/axios-util`, `axois-utils`, and `color-style-utils`. These packages were designed to steal information from developer systems and have been downloaded thousands of times.
Apple's new M5 Ultra Mac Studio delivers massive performance with up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU. The high-end workstation is specifically designed for demanding tasks like local AI model development and professional visual effects.
An open-source project is making digital shortwave radio accessible. It enables low-bandwidth data transmission over vast distances with minimal infrastructure, offering a resilient communication backup when the internet and satellite services fail.
A new Logitech report finds fewer than a third of companies involve IT teams early in office design. This oversight leads to persistent tech failures, dropped connections, and significant lost productivity for employees.
An investigation reveals a woman died of exposure near the US-Mexico border, despite being in plain sight of a high-tech surveillance camera. The incident exposes critical flaws in the effectiveness of automated border security technology.
Over 70 people are suing Meta, claiming its smart glasses recorded sensitive images without their knowledge. The lawsuit alleges this data was exposed, raising significant privacy concerns for wearable tech and its use in AI development.
NGINX has introduced a new Control API, replacing its traditional Unix signal-based management. This modernizes the web server, allowing teams to automate configuration reloads and get direct error feedback via simple HTTP requests.
AI agents fail for reasons beyond just model hallucinations. An OpenAI expert shared a framework for building reliable 'agent harnesses' that control state, scope authority, and validate actions to prevent common production errors.
Engineers at AI company Anthropic now use AI to write 90% of their code. This signals a fundamental shift in software development, where human roles will focus more on high-level design, review, and problem-solving.
Companies are adopting AI faster than their teams can learn, creating a major skills gap. A new study finds insufficient employee skills are now a top barrier to successful AI integration, forcing leaders to rethink training strategies.
A new security framework called DPACT aims to make AI agents safer. It moves beyond simple API key access, giving developers a model for building systems with better identity, authorization, and guardrails.
AWS has confirmed it cannot recover customer data from a damaged availability zone in the UAE and the entire Bahrain region. The damage, caused by conflict, was so severe it overwhelmed the cloud provider's multi-AZ redundancy designs.
An AI support agent issued an unapproved credit, and all systems showed a normal transaction. This highlights a critical new risk: companies are fully liable for their AI's actions, even when they're invisible to standard monitoring tools.
The JavaScript runtime Bun has rewritten its entire codebase from the Zig language to Rust. The move, completed in just four months with AI assistance, aims to fix persistent memory safety vulnerabilities and improve stability.
Fantasy sports company Underdog is suing Connecticut after the state ordered it and others, including Coinbase, to stop operating. The lawsuit escalates a fight over who can regulate prediction markets, with major implications for the emerging product category.
A new startup called ScrollEd is transforming traditional textbooks into an interactive, scrollable feed with videos and quizzes. The goal is to make learning more engaging for students accustomed to social media formats.
Cloudflare has improved how it connects to websites, cutting connection retries from 52% to just 3.7%. This simple change reduces loading times by over 150 milliseconds for many sites, making a large portion of the web faster.
Samsung is shifting production of consumer memory like DDR5 and SSDs to third-party partners. This move frees up its own factories to produce high-demand HBM memory, a critical component for AI hardware.
AWS Lambda functions can now run for up to 90 minutes, a sixfold increase from the previous 15-minute limit. This major update opens up serverless computing for long-running data processing, machine learning, and other intensive workloads.
A new AI model called Jev has become the fastest-adopted model in Vercel's AI Gateway history. It's gaining traction by offering developers a specialized tool for generating fast, cheap, and structured data outputs from AI.