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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.
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.
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.
A developer built an AI system that uses a webcam and a mirror to watch its own screen. It can spot graphical errors and rewrite its own AMD Radeon driver code to fix the bugs, all without human help.
Google Cloud has published its internal five-step workflow for handling service outages. The framework guides teams from initial verification to post-incident review, aiming to minimize downtime and improve resilience for any company running on the cloud.
AI coding platform Bolt.new is offering developers up to 50 times more compute power. The catch is they must agree to let the company use their anonymized source code to train its AI models.
The UK's £100 billion data center boom is hitting a wall. A new survey finds that cabling bottlenecks and the rapid pace of AI mean new facilities are often outdated the moment they go online, threatening the country's tech goals.
NVIDIA Research is using formal methods, a mathematical approach for verifying software, to control AI agents. This technique aims to make AI more predictable and secure by proving it will adhere to predefined safety rules and policies.
Google Cloud released Filestore agent volumes, a new managed storage service built for AI agents. It provides a shared, persistent file system to simplify how agents access and process data, eliminating the need for complex custom solutions.
Google Cloud is using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to automate telecommunications networks. This new approach helps manage the growing complexity that traditional methods and human operators can no longer handle effectively.
ClickHouse now supports PromQL, letting it act as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus. This allows teams to store and query metrics alongside logs and traces in a single, high-performance database without rewriting queries in SQL.
ClickHouse has released replica-aware routing in public beta. The new feature ensures that all queries within a single session are sent to the same server, solving a common problem with temporary data in distributed clusters.
SimpliSafe's new video doorbell uses AI to detect threats, then alerts a live human agent who can intervene. The service combines automated analysis with human oversight to offer a new level of proactive home security.
Meta's AI is creating detailed profiles of minors by analyzing years of family posts, reportedly including content that users have deleted. The practice raises significant data privacy and ethical questions for platforms and their users.
Sales and marketing tech startups raised $7.5 billion this year, with investors increasingly favoring companies that integrate AI. This trend shows where the market is heading and which tools are gaining a competitive edge.
A federal court ruled that sports prediction markets are not financial products. This decision allows states like Nevada to apply their own gaming laws, creating a major regulatory hurdle for platforms like Kalshi and Crypto.com.
Amazon's next-generation Linux, AL2027, is now in preview with a major security change. It enforces SELinux by default, which could break existing applications, forcing developers to update their systems for compatibility and improved security.
Kioxia is developing new flash memory products that act like traditional RAM. This could help data centers dramatically expand memory capacity for AI workloads without the high cost of DRAM, easing a major infrastructure bottleneck.
The Java platform is preparing major updates, including ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation for faster startup and structured concurrency to simplify multi-threaded apps. These changes signal a push for better performance and developer productivity across the ecosystem.
Google BigQuery now has built-in AI functions that automatically find trends and explain why your metrics change. This lets data teams get complex answers directly within SQL, without needing separate machine learning tools.
A UK court ruled a homeowner's Ring video doorbell illegally captured a neighbor's data, violating GDPR. The case sets a critical precedent for IoT device makers, highlighting the legal risks of constant audio and video surveillance.
AI coding assistants increase developer output by 25%, but new data shows they also cause an 81% rise in duplicated code. This trade-off creates new challenges for code maintenance, quality, and long-term technical debt.