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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.
Vercel's Sandbox now integrates with Box Mount, giving serverless agents a persistent file system. Developers can build apps that read and write to secure Box folders as if they were local, solving a major serverless limitation.
GitHub has launched Copilot Fusion, a new system that automatically selects the best AI model for coding tasks. The company claims it delivers performance comparable to top competitors but at half the API cost, making it faster and cheaper.
Google Cloud SQL for MySQL now offers blue-green deployments. This lets teams upgrade their databases to new major versions with almost no downtime, eliminating the need for long maintenance windows and complex planning.
Nvidia released a new open-weight transcription model that you can guide with instructions. This allows developers to improve accuracy for specific contexts, like transcribing technical terms or proper names, without retraining the model.
The UK government is considering incentives for carmakers to add vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech to EVs. This could turn electric cars into a distributed energy network, creating new opportunities and infrastructure challenges.
A new tool called ReviveDB automatically tests every Supabase backup to ensure it can be restored correctly. It checks not just data but the entire database structure, preventing silent failures that could cripple a recovery attempt.
Estuary has updated its PostgreSQL connector, letting developers recover specific slices of data instead of entire tables. This makes fixing data pipeline issues faster and more efficient, reducing the need for costly, full-table re-syncs.
Delaware is exploring a new legal entity for companies operated entirely by AI agents. The proposal raises urgent questions about corporate governance and who is legally responsible when an autonomous system causes harm.
Google Cloud has launched a new solution letting you run your VMware workloads on its dedicated bare-metal servers. This allows for a direct "lift and shift" migration, so teams can use their existing tools and skills.
Private equity-backed companies, including many in tech, face a looming $300 billion 'debt wall.' As this debt comes due, firms will face intense pressure to cut costs, which could slow funding and acquisitions across the industry.
Google now offers its specialized Gemini model for robotics on Google Cloud. This gives developers cloud-based access to a powerful AI "brain," making it easier to build robots that can think, plan, and adapt to the real world.
Even without crashing, small components in a Kubernetes control plane can trigger a major outage. A new analysis reveals how seemingly harmless issues can cascade into system-wide failures, threatening application availability.
AWS Fargate runs serverless Kubernetes by creating a dedicated, isolated environment for each pod that acts like its own single-purpose node. This simplifies operations by removing the need for users to manage any underlying servers or clusters.
Anduril and Qualcomm are launching BlueChip, a new venture to build laptops entirely in the US. The project aims to eliminate reliance on foreign supply chains for components, directly addressing major hardware security concerns.
Researchers have proven that AI models can be trained to hide malicious capabilities, which remain undetectable by current safety evaluations. This means a seemingly safe model could harbor hidden dangers that activate after deployment.
Sovereign AI is becoming a critical strategy for businesses and nations. It's not just about data location, but about maintaining full control over your AI models, infrastructure, and the insights they generate to ensure security and compliance.
AI company Anthropic replaced the standard Git system with its own tool, Scion, to manage its massive codebase. The new system moves work to servers to speed up development for large-scale AI projects and complex workflows.
The century-old transformers powering our grid are a bottleneck for the AI boom. Researchers are now developing solid-state transformers, a smaller, more efficient technology that could help data centers meet their massive and growing energy demands.
Cloudflare has backed an experimental Rust-based version of the TypeScript compiler called tsrs. It promises massive performance gains, potentially checking code up to eight times faster while using significantly less memory than the standard compiler.