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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.
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.
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.
Valve has raised the prices for its Steam Deck OLED models. The 512GB version is now $789, up from $549, and the 1TB model is $949, up from $649. The company attributes the significant increase to rising costs for memory and storage components, but both are now in stock.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by University of Arizona graduates during his commencement speech. He told the class their task was to shape AI, prompting a negative reaction. Schmidt acknowledged their fears about job loss and the future were "rational," highlighting growing public skepticism.
Traditional FinOps practices often recommend downsizing resources with low utilization. However, for certain AI workloads like secure machine learning, low GPU compute usage can be misleading. These tasks may be memory-bound, not compute-bound, making "underutilized" GPUs essential for performance and avoiding higher costs.
Apple released its annual fraud prevention report, stating it stopped over $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions last year. The company uses this data to highlight the value of its curated App Store, arguing its security measures and review process protect both users and developers.
JetBrains is discontinuing its standalone DataSpell IDE, which was designed for data science and analytics. The company will integrate all of DataSpell's features, including its advanced Jupyter notebook and data exploration tools, into PyCharm Professional to consolidate its offerings.
Salesforce has launched Headless 360, a major architectural shift away from traditional application interfaces. The move allows AI agents, bots, and external tools to access Salesforce data directly via APIs, paving the way for new automated workflows and potential usage-based pricing models.
Payroll provider Remote has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved positive cash flow. The company attributes this success to AI adoption, which led to a 50% increase in revenue per employee without expanding its workforce, highlighting AI's impact on operational efficiency.
European tech companies are launching Euro-Office, a new open-source productivity suite, on June 9. It is designed as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, offering governments and businesses more control over their data and software infrastructure.
China's regulators have approved the world's first invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) for use outside of clinical trials. This landmark decision signals a major market opening for deep-tech and a new era in human-computer interaction, accelerating China's position in the global biotech and hardware race.
In a recent discussion, experts from Dataiku and 1Password explored the next frontier of AI challenges. They covered the essentials of data governance, managing complex data supply chains, and the critical need for robust security frameworks to protect increasingly autonomous and interconnected AI agent swarms.
CIOs are under intense pressure to deliver measurable returns on AI investments. A new survey reveals a significant challenge: only 19% of AI projects are meeting their intended goals. This is forcing a shift from broad experimentation to prioritizing and scaling solutions that demonstrate clear business value.
A Netlify user reported a critical bug where production deployments are blocked for days due to an "account credit usage exceeded" error. This is happening despite the user purchasing additional credits and upgrading their plan, with their dashboard showing a positive credit balance, suggesting a system glitch.
Box founder Aaron Levie warns of "AI psychosis," where leaders overestimate AI's ability to replace jobs they don't fully understand. This mindset is driving workforce reductions, as seen with recent layoffs at companies like ClickUp, which replaced a significant portion of its staff with AI agents.
A recent update to the Netlify CLI, from version 24 to 26, is causing deployment failures for some developers. The issue appears to affect Next.js projects, where a key server handler file exceeds the platform's 250 MB size limit, breaking previously working CI/CD pipelines.
Disney's new Star Wars movie, 'The Mandalorian and Grogu,' saw a 70% drop in its second weekend, falling to third place. It was outperformed by two horror films reportedly directed by popular YouTube creators, signaling a potential market shift in entertainment and media consumption.
ClickHouse has announced major updates to its observability platform, ClickStack. The new releases include ClickStack Cloud in private preview, AI-powered Notebooks in beta, and a new MCP server. These changes aim to simplify setup, improve investigation, and enhance the platform's composability for developers and IT teams.
Redis 8.4 introduces a new `CLAIM` option for its `XREADGROUP` command, simplifying how developers build reliable stream consumers. The update combines consuming new messages and reclaiming stalled ones into a single command, reducing code complexity and improving the robustness of event-driven applications.
Developers have reported frustratingly long cold starts, up to 20 seconds, when running AI models on Google Cloud Run. This latency has led some to reconsider serverless GPUs. Google has now published a guide with practical solutions to significantly reduce these startup times.
Snowflake's platform on Google Cloud in Melbourne has successfully completed an IRAP assessment, meeting the Australian Government's 'Protected' security standard. This certification allows public sector agencies and regulated industries in Australia to use the data platform for handling sensitive information and critical workloads on GCP.
A CNCF blog post shares a real-world story about the 'integration tax' of cloud-native tools. An on-call engineer faced blank dashboards because Prometheus wasn't correctly configured to monitor Cilium, highlighting how complex integrations can cause serious production issues for engineering teams.
ClickHouse announced several major updates at its Open House 2026 event. Key developments include deeper integration with Postgres, new data ingestion tools called ClickPipes and ClickHouse Agents, and a partnership with Langfuse for LLM observability. The updates aim to simplify real-time data analytics.
Tech leaders often treat board meetings as one-way presentations, focusing too heavily on technical details. An REI CIO's experience shows the pitfall of this approach, highlighting that boards expect a strategic dialogue, not just a detailed report on roadmaps, to guide the company's direction effectively.
ClickHouse has introduced ClickStack Cloud, a new serverless observability platform. It's a fully managed service built on the ClickHouse database, designed to handle logs, metrics, and traces. The platform uses a managed endpoint for OpenTelemetry data, allowing teams to analyze systems without managing infrastructure.
Microsoft Research has released Data Formulator 0.7, an open-source, AI-powered system for enterprise data analytics. The tool combines data connectivity, AI agent-guided exploration, and visualization in a shared workspace. A new Data Connectors feature simplifies integration with various data sources like databases and BI systems.
Vercel has integrated the MiniMax M3 model into its AI Gateway. This is MiniMax's first model with a 1-million-token context window and native multimodal capabilities, designed for complex tasks like software engineering, agentic web browsing, and multi-turn collaboration for developers using the platform.