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Hello Cyber Builders 🖖I spent the last week of March on the floor at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco. 50,000+ attendees. Nearly 700 exhibitors. Four days of keynotes, demos, side meetings, and conversations.I came back with more clarity than I’ve had in years. It wasn’t that everything was new. The signals were consistent. Founders, investors, CISOs, researchers — everyone saw the same problems.Here are my seven takeaways. It is for builders. Treat it as a field guide.At RSAC 2026, AI was the core of every conversation, keynote, product launch, and investment thesis.The question has changed. We are no longer…

While Aventon is known first and foremost as an ebike brand, the company started by making fixies in 2013. That gives it some bona fides when it comes to making enjoyable rides for experienced cyclists. (In addition to the Current ADV, there’s also a higher-end model, the Current EXP, with a more expensive carbon frame and better components.) Since its first venture into e-MTBs with the Ramblas in 2024, the company has continued to develop very nicely specced electric mountain bikes for the price.The designers behind the newest iterations did a masterful job. The Current ADV looks 100 percent the…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Fans of the Masters, today’s Connections: Sports Edition should be a hole in one for you. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can play…

Proof of Work (PoW)Ties every node to a real computational cost, making mass fake node creation prohibitively expensiveBlockchain and permissionless networksProof of Stake (PoS)Requires staked capital per node; slashing penalties deter attackers from running Sybil nodes at scaleBlockchain and DeFi protocolsIdentity validation (phone, credit card, KYC)Forces a hard-to-duplicate real-world credential per identity, raising the cost of fake account creationConsumer platforms, financial services, Web3 onboardingTrust graph analysis (SybilGuard, SybilRank)Identifies Sybil clusters through structural anomalies in the network social graph without exposing user identityPeer-to-peer networks, social platformsProof of personhoodTies each identity to a verified unique human, making one-entity-many-identities attacks structurally impossibleDAO governance,…

Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s going to throw an additional $21 billion at the cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave Inc. as it strives to keep pace with rival AI developers. The deal expands the social media giant’s partnership with CoreWeave. In September, it revealed it was going to spend $14.2 billion on the cloud provider’s AI compute infrastructure. That original deal was set to run until 2031, but the new deal spans 2027 to 2032, Meta said, giving it access to CoreWeave’s much-needed resources for years to come. CoreWeave operates a network of data centers that are stacked…

What makes work valuable? Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Philosophy, investigates the role work plays in our lives and its impact on our well-being. Masny sees numerous benefits to work, beyond a paycheck. It’s a space for people to develop excellence at something, make a social contribution, gain social recognition, and create and sustain community. “Consider a future in which we shorten the work week, or one in which we eliminate work altogether,” Masny says. “I don’t believe either of these scenarios would be unambiguously good for everyone.”“Work is both necessary and positively valuable,”…

All it takes is two to three weddings to break even Two to three weddings. That’s all it takes for entrepreneurs Edmund Teo from Octopus Reels and Jessica Tay from Leave Your Message to fully recoup their startup costs—and everything after is profit. Their business? Renting out digital guestbooks that capture audio and video messages from wedding guests. As more couples seek personalised, interactive experiences, this niche service is quickly gaining popularity and turning into a profitable opportunity. Set up is simple, only requires two to three people, and the equipment is reusable, making margins compelling with limited costs.  Vulcan…

Stop settling for narrative dressed up as data in 2026. Closed-loop marketing is your fix, connecting every revenue outcome back to the marketing action that fueled it. Most B2B organizations are sitting on more data than they can act on. The problem was never collection. It is that the data sits in systems that were never designed to tell you whether your marketing actually drove revenue. Closed-loop marketing is the fix for that. It means connecting every downstream sales outcome back to the upstream marketing action that generated it. Which campaign sourced the lead? Which content piece moved a deal…

This blog post focuses on new features and improvements. For a comprehensive list, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. LLM inference at scale typically involves deploying multiple replicas of the same model behind a load balancer. The standard approach treats these replicas as interchangeable and routes requests randomly or round-robin across them. But LLM inference isn’t stateless. Each replica builds up a KV cache of previously computed attention states. When a request lands on a replica without the relevant context already cached, the model has to recompute everything from scratch. This wastes GPU cycles and increases latency. The…

Dairy cows at the Puyallup Fair, now called the Washington State Fair. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies — a Washington company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage — announced it’s being acquired by Ara Partners. The global equity firm is investing up to $500 million in Sedron to facilitate the deployment of its sewage and manure cleaning technologies, which gives it a controlling stake in the business. “The Ara investment is largely designed to provide us with the equity on our own balance sheet to scale up production of…