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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 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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Research has released Orchard, an open-source framework for building more capable AI agents. It provides a unified environment to train and test autonomous agents for tasks like software engineering, web navigation, and personal assistance.
Companies rushing to adopt AI are finding their biggest hurdle isn't the new technology, but their old, legacy systems. This technical debt prevents the data access and speed that modern AI models require to be effective.
U.S. immigration authorities collected DNA from nearly one million people last year, including children. This data is now permanently stored in an FBI criminal database, raising major privacy and surveillance concerns for everyone.
The rush to adopt AI is creating a new form of software sprawl, adding complexity instead of simplifying workloads. This trend is exposing deeper, disconnected processes that were already a problem for businesses, according to a recent analysis.
Microsoft's Agent Framework is now a fully managed service, moving beyond a simple developer kit. This makes it much easier for companies to build, deploy, and securely manage their own custom AI agents in production.
HashiCorp released a public beta of a new Vault feature for Kubernetes. It lets you manage the encryption keys for your cluster's sensitive data outside of Kubernetes itself, adding a powerful new layer of security and compliance.
Many large companies are unprepared for a key AI challenge: ensuring language models accurately represent their brand. This gap in 'AI readiness' can lead to misinformation and damage a company's reputation and competitive position online.
AI tools are generating infrastructure code at a record pace, but companies are struggling to manage it. This creates a hidden operational debt that increases risks to security, stability, and cost control for businesses.
While Hollywood publicly fights AI, major studios are quietly hiring experts to build proprietary AI tools. This signals a deep, strategic investment in the technology, creating new opportunities and challenges for the tech industry.
A new AI agent framework called Embabel has reached its 1.0 release. It lets Java and Kotlin developers build AI agents using familiar tools and integrates directly with the popular Spring framework, simplifying enterprise AI adoption.
IT teams now spend 11 hours a week fixing cloud connectivity problems, a new study finds. The surge in AI workloads is straining enterprise networks, revealing a gap between perceived readiness and actual performance for many companies.
Russia has unveiled a new electronic warfare system that targets Starlink satellites directly in orbit, not user terminals on the ground. This new capability raises significant concerns about the resilience of global satellite communication networks.
A new open-source project lets developers install the NixOS operating system on NVIDIA's DGX Spark AI hardware. This brings reproducible and declarative system management to high-performance computing, simplifying the setup of complex AI development environments.
A new open-source tool called Bor lets IT and security teams centrally manage fleets of Linux desktops. It uses a modern architecture to enforce policies for browsers, package management, and system settings in real time.
A developer has released Fuse, a new programming language for building high-performance applications. It's a statically typed, purely functional language that compiles to native code, aiming to combine modern safety features with raw speed.
A new game bundle has raised over $57,000 for a hardship fund supporting laid-off developers. The effort, led by a union, signals a growing trend of collective action in response to the video game industry's widespread labor crisis.
A writer replaced Ford's BlueCruise with an open-source driver-assistance system and found it superior after 1,000 miles. This signals that open-source software is now a viable competitor to proprietary systems in safety-critical industries like automotive.
A judge has ordered Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica after noise complaints. The ruling highlights how scaling new tech can be blocked by non-technical challenges like public nuisance laws, a key lesson for innovators.
A new system uses automated drones to collect atmospheric data, offering a more precise and reusable alternative to traditional weather balloons. This could significantly improve hyperlocal weather forecasting for sensitive industries.