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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.
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.
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.
Major AI providers are embedding invisible watermarks in their models' text. This move is to comply with the EU AI Act, which mandates that all synthetic content must be machine-detectable, raising new questions about security and implementation.
Apple Wallet's digital ID is expanding to four more states, reaching 18 total. But with limited acceptance and a slow rollout, the dream of leaving your physical driver's license at home remains a distant one for most.
The Supreme Court has rejected Verizon's appeal to refund a $47 million FCC fine. This decision solidifies the penalty for mishandling user location data, setting a major precedent for data privacy enforcement and corporate accountability.
Vercel now integrates with Cursor Origin, the repository system for the AI-native code editor. This allows developers to automatically deploy code written with AI assistance, streamlining the path from development to production for Pro customers.
GitHub experienced a major outage, leaving developers unable to access repositories and services. The incident, confirmed on its status page, halted workflows and highlighted the industry's deep reliance on the platform for daily operations.
Speko is a new platform that automatically finds the best combination of voice AI models for your project. It helps developers optimize for cost, latency, and performance, acting as a universal router for speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech services.
German regulators have forced Apple to redesign its App Tracking Transparency prompts. The previous design was found to unfairly favor Apple's own services, and the change could help level the playing field for third-party developers.
Fortune 500 companies will average 150,000 AI agents by 2028, but few have governance plans. A new platform called xpander aims to provide a central control layer for this coming AI agent sprawl.
Cloudflare released a new tool for defining CI/CD pipelines in TypeScript. It uses serverless workflows to make each step durable, allowing for automatic retries and replays to create more resilient software build processes.
Grafana has released new tools that allow AI coding agents to directly query live system data like metrics and logs. This enables developers to build and debug applications using real-time information, not just static code.
The US Air Force is seeking an AI agent to unify fragmented data for its aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles. The goal is to create a single interface to manage critical information currently scattered across dozens of legacy systems.
A new architectural pattern for RAG systems can cut inference costs by 6x. By using a simpler model to filter out easy queries, teams can save money and improve auditability without sacrificing performance.
Cloudflare is reportedly adding its analytics script to websites automatically when users switch to its nameservers. This happens without explicit consent, raising concerns about transparency and site control for developers.
Kioxia unveiled a new enterprise SSD that achieves a record 10 million input/output operations per second. Its extreme speed and endurance are engineered to eliminate data bottlenecks for the most demanding AI systems.
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.