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New research from SmarterX surfaced not just where B2B marketers are in their AI journey but how they feel about it.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Valve Valve will not be renewing its stock of physical gift cards for Steam. The gaming company anticipates that the cards will be completely gone from retailers’ shelves by the end of 2026. In an update to one of its support pages, Valve explained that is making this change in response to scammers. Using gift cards to con people out of money has become a common enough trend that the Federal Trade Commission has an FAQ about the practice. In Valve’s case, it seems the business’ escalating steps…

With new generations of AI models fueling both rapid software vulnerability discovery and the potential for faster exploitation by malicious hackers, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a new directive on Wednesday that requires more rapid and efficient software patching by federal civilian agencies. The “binding operational directive” (BOD) lays out a rubric for how quickly bugs must be fixed based on four assessments of urgency, with a turnaround time in critical cases of just three days.Chris Butera, CISA’s acting executive assistant director for cybersecurity, told reporters on Wednesday that the goal of the directive is to…

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “resurgence and expansion” of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. “The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performance scanner used to discover, fingerprint, and continuously map exposed services at scale,” Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News. JDY was first flagged as a cluster within another botnet codenamed KV-botnet in mid-December 2023. Primarily used for broader scanning against internet targets, the stealthy network comprising compromised SOHO routers, firewalls, and IoT…

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s next-generation custom silicon is finally being made accessible to customers for the first time with the launch of the Elastic Compute Cloud M9g and M9gd instances. They’re powered by the all-new Graviton5 central processing unit, which is designed to deliver superior compute performance for diverse cloud workloads, including artificial intelligence applications. The company said Graviton5 is designed to support real-time AI reasoning, code generation, multistep task orchestration and complex, always-on workloads to enable “AI that takes action.” By that, it’s referring to autonomous AI agents that can be set to work performing tasks on behalf of…

In January, there was a lot of hype around an announcement from Finnish company Donut Lab: It claimed to have created the world’s first production-ready solid-state battery.The Donut battery, marketed as the energy source behind the Verge TS Pro motorcycle, was allegedly a “pioneer” in bringing this new battery technology to a production-ready electric vehicle. During CES 2026, Donut Lab’s phone-size powerhouse was even a finalist for CNET’s Best Transportation category, where we noted that the cell promised “huge improvements in energy density, charging speed and safety.”But it now appears to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The battery is allegedly…

The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in the U.S. by the end of the decade. Today, around a third of data center electricity is devoted to cooling the chips that run AI models.That’s the process Ferveret is working to make more efficient. The startup, founded by Reza Azizian, a former MIT postdoc in nuclear engineering, and Matteo Bucci, MIT’s Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and…

A new analysis shows that most planned AI data centers in the US are being built in drought-stricken regions, creating an insurmountable challenge. The AI industry has been obsessed with one resource- compute. Who has the most GPUs? Who can build data centers the fastest? Who can secure enough power to stay ahead in the AI race? But a new analysis from The Guardian suggests the industry may have overlooked another resource that is becoming just as important: water. About two-thirds of planned AI datacenters in the US will be built in regions already experiencing severe drought conditions, even as…

1,000 breaches is one hell of a milestone. It's not just the process of getting data, verifying it, loading it, sending notifications etc, it's all the other stuff that goes into keeping the whole thing afloat. Legal docs. Trademarks. Accounting. Agreements. The most mind-numbingly boring stuff you can imagine happening in the background so that the stuff you see in the foreground can all work. And then there are those "other things" I had to deal with along the way, but more of that in this week's video. Thanks to everyone who has stuck around to see this thing reach…

Here’s what Shopee collection point hosts really deal with Shopee’s neighbourhood collection point network has quietly become part of Singapore’s daily landscape since 2023. The e-commerce firm has established over 2,800 collection points across Singapore as of today, including residential addresses, convenience stores, and lockers—placing most homes within 250m of their nearest pickup option. This kills two birds with one stone.  For customers, it offers a more affordable and convenient delivery option, with savings of up to S$1.99 in delivery fees per item. For ordinary Singaporeans, it creates an opportunity to earn passive income by turning their homes or businesses…