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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.
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 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.
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.
Bluesky's main app has lost over half its active users in 18 months. But its underlying decentralized protocol is gaining traction, creating a new kind of platform ecosystem beyond a single application.
DeepSeek's V4 Flash AI, despite topping leaderboards, completed just over half of complex real-world tasks in a new test. This performance gap, combined with a price hike, challenges its value for developers building AI agents.
A new open-source tool called PGSimCity visualizes complex PostgreSQL operations as an interactive 3D city. It helps developers and engineers intuitively understand how their database works internally, making a complex system easier to grasp.
Researchers found Google's new DiffusionGemma AI is not a complete black box. Its step-by-step reasoning process can be interpreted, a positive sign for the safety, monitoring, and future enterprise adoption of diffusion-based text models.
Dolby is splitting its next-gen Dolby Vision 2 HDR standard into two tiers. A standard version will be cheaper to license, aiming to bring the high-end display technology to more affordable TVs and devices for the first time.
The US Navy has launched its first aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, with a dedicated control center for unmanned aircraft. This marks a major step in integrating autonomous systems into complex, real-world operational environments.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison lost $104 billion in two months as the company's stock fell 54%. The drop reflects market uncertainty over Oracle's high-stakes, capital-intensive strategy to compete in the AI infrastructure race.
Honor claims Qualcomm's top Snapdragon chipsets are not powerful enough for professional-grade video, prompting the company to develop its own dedicated imaging co-processor. This signals a move towards more specialized mobile hardware for demanding tasks.
Cloudflare now offers agent tracing to help developers debug AI on its Workers platform. However, the company warns that traces are not lossless, data can be truncated, and the feature will become a paid service in 2026.
Cloudflare's new Cache Response Rules let you control caching *after* your server responds. This gives developers powerful, fine-grained control to optimize performance and reduce origin server load, all from the Cloudflare dashboard.
The city of Baltimore is suing prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, alleging they are illegal sportsbooks. This legal challenge could set a major precedent for how fintech and Web3 products are regulated in the United States.
Kioxia and SanDisk revealed a new memory chip that could enable the world's first 1 petabyte SSDs. This breakthrough promises massive increases in storage density and speed for data centers and cloud infrastructure.
LuaCAD is a new open-source tool for creating 3D models with code. It uses the popular Lua scripting language as a more powerful and user-friendly alternative to the language used by the popular tool OpenSCAD.
Nvidia has released NeMo Switchyard, a new tool for model routing. It helps developers automatically send AI prompts to the most cost-effective model, addressing the growing problem of high inference expenses for businesses.
The open-source AI platform Kubeflow has released major updates, including better Spark support, to simplify building complex AI systems on Kubernetes. The project is also nearing official graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, signaling its maturity.
Meta has open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 30B AI model that runs on consumer GPUs. This allows developers to build powerful, autonomous AI agents locally, cutting cloud costs and improving privacy by keeping data on-device.
A new study shows GPT-4 can predict human personality scores with surprising accuracy from text alone. This emergent ability has major implications for user profiling, product development, and sophisticated social engineering attacks.
Vercel is offering free access to Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a powerful coding model with a 1 million-token context window. The offer is available for developers using the 'eve' agent framework through Vercel's AI Gateway until August 27.
Google Cloud has updated BigQuery with graph data capabilities. This helps AI agents understand the complex relationships within business data, leading to more accurate and trustworthy insights than what's possible with simple tables.