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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.
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.
Vercel has extended its Spend Management tools to Enterprise customers. Teams can now set budgets that automatically trigger alerts or even pause production deployments to prevent unexpected cloud costs and control spending.
Google added advanced text search (BM25) directly into Cloud SQL and AlloyDB. Developers can now build smarter AI search applications without managing a separate system, which simplifies architecture and reduces operational complexity.
A single, previously unknown software defect in the UK's air traffic control system failed in a millisecond, causing 2,000 flight cancellations and stranding thousands. The incident highlights the fragility of critical national infrastructure.
Vercel's AI tool for building user interfaces, v0, can now use private code packages. This allows development teams to integrate their own internal design systems and component libraries directly into the AI-powered workflow for the first time.
WSO2 has released Agent Manager, a new open-source platform. It gives companies a single place to govern, secure, and monitor the growing number of AI agents running across their systems, preventing chaos and security risks.
DoorDash built a system of AI agents to automatically find and remove old code from its systems. In a trial, the system successfully created fixes for 90% of targeted issues, costing just $4.79 and taking 14 minutes each.
US regulators clarified that developers of trading software don't need a broker license if they don't handle user funds. This new guidance creates a safe harbor, reducing legal uncertainty for FinTech and crypto innovation.
DuckDB-Wasm now uses a browser feature called OPFS to create persistent databases that don't disappear when you close a tab. This enables faster, more private, and offline-capable data applications directly on the user's machine.
The FCC has approved SpaceX to operate its Starlink Mobile service internationally. This paves the way for global satellite-to-phone connectivity, potentially eliminating dead zones and challenging traditional mobile carriers worldwide.
A new four-layer architecture for facial verification systems enables 10x scaling and cuts cloud costs by 30%. The design decouples key processes and adds privacy controls to meet GDPR and HIPAA compliance, even under heavy load.
A decade ago, a $62M IBM Watson project failed to treat a single patient. The reason wasn't a lack of intelligence, but a failure to integrate with complex hospital data—a crucial lesson for modern AI deployments.
Vercel's AI Gateway now includes GLM 5.3 FlashX, a high-speed coding model from Z.ai. It generates code at ~200 tokens per second, making it ideal for building faster, more responsive AI coding assistants and interactive tools.