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As the news from last week has settled down, it would seem this headline was pretty spot on. The foretold apocalypse didn't eventuate, and there were no internet-destroying outages. In fact, it took days before I could find a single story of PHP2Shell being reliably attributed back to a breach. And I don't think we can say the relatively benign outcome was only achieved because we did take it so seriously either; there's a massive trove of sites out there that have been left to rot and would have every opportunity to be pwned by a bug of this magnitude…

Demand creation vs. demand capture isn’t a choice between content and ads. Learn how to earn buyer interest, convert existing demand, and connect the two. Your search ads are doing its job. Clicks lead to inquiries- with CPL within the target. But they’ve already shortlisted other vendors and chosen one they have worked with before. The potential buyer is aware of your brand. But you didn’t make the cut. Confusing, right? That’s where the demand creation vs. demand capture conversation becomes useful. Not as another way to divide the marketing budget, but as a way to understand why being discoverable…

Apple has updated its Adobe-rivaling Apple Creator Studio software suite just in time for the arrival of the new M6 iMac and 14-inch MacBook Pro. One of the biggest additions is built-in MotionVFX tools for the Final Cut Pro app, following Apple’s acquisition of the former earlier this year. In a press release, Apple said the integration of MotionVFX provides editors with “rapid access to extensive professional video effects and content.” These include graphics, themes, titles and transitions, as well as specialized rotoscoping and color grading tools. The Content Hub that lives within Final Cut Pro also contains curated stock…

Product Name MSRP $3,780.00 “The Zephyrus G14 has enough gaming muscle to replace my aging desktop, yet it travels almost as easily as the ultrabook I normally carry.” Pros Gorgeous 2.8K OLED display Great performance for its size Extremely portable for a gaming laptop Premium aluminum construction Solid six-speaker audio setup Reliable battery life on light productivity Ample port selection Cons Quite expensive RTX 5070 limited to 8GB VRAM Soldered RAM Only one M.2 slot No Ethernet port Quick Take Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was…

Excellent for hydrating expensive freeze-dried pet food and decent for other dry food types.John Carlsen/CNET After a health scare a couple of years ago, my cat spent a while on a wet food diet before I finally got him back to dry food with a smart pet feeder. During that time, I learned how tricky wet cat food can be: You need to serve it fresh, and it can’t sit out too long. Leaving the house meant planning my day around the next meal, spending more than on dry kibble and keeping a steady supply of wet food on hand…

You don’t hear the defenders of so-called Western civilization talk much about The Odyssey these days.Maybe that’s because their rabid denunciations of Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s epic were buried in an avalanche of money. The July blockbuster has grossed nearly $1.8 billion worldwide, silencing the right-wingers who predicted a massive flop due to diverse casting and deviations from the source material.Perhaps the loudest of these preemptive critics was Elon Musk. The world’s richest man spared no vitriol for what he considered a desecration of the ancient Greek narrative; four days after its release, he vowed to produce a…

Each year, Climate Week NYC brings together more than 100,000 people in more than 1,000 events across the city to discuss climate challenges, explore solutions, and spur action. Participants come from industry, academia, philanthropy, nonprofits, government, and finance and venture capital. And this year, the mix included a strong, cross-campus presence from MIT.The MIT community could be seen multiple days during Climate Week, with appearances by Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate, at the official opening ceremony discussing artificial intelligence and the climate equation; an event co-hosted by MIT and the Bezos Earth Fund on climate innovation; and 14…

It’s not easy running a car automotive shop in Singapore Over the past few months, 30 to 40 customers have turned up at Vos Automotive with the same problem. They paid deposits to car-wrap shops that closed before finishing the job, and now they want Vos to complete or touch up their cars. Three or four wrap shops in Singapore have shut recently, according to Tsuri, co-founder of Vos. She and her husband, Isaiah Chu, both 37, say the closures have little to do with workmanship. “Actually, we survive because we calculate,” Isaiah says. Vos hasn’t had an easy run…

Microsoft Corp. today issued voluntary buyout offers to about a quarter of its workforce. The approximately 60,000 workers affected by the move are located in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K. They reportedly all have a score of 70 or below on the company’s internal experience scale. That means the most senior employees affected by the job cuts are vice presidents. Voluntary buyout programs give workers advanced notice of layoffs. Staffers who indicate that they wish to leave early usually receive more generous severance terms than in a standard restructuring initiative. In the case of Microsoft’s buyout program, employees…

Entire CEO Thomas Dohmke, speaking last month at Madrona’s IA40 Summit in Seattle, says AI agents have made code review a much bigger bottleneck for developers. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is introducing its own platform for storing, reviewing and shipping code written by AI agents, competing with the company he used to run. The startup, Entire, on Monday unveiled what it calls a Git forge — a service for hosting code, reviewing changes and running builds, the core of what GitHub does — designed for teams whose AI agents write…