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(Bigstock Photo) Startup leaders in the Seattle region say a new proposal to expand the capital gains tax in Washington state could spur founders and investors to build companies somewhere else. SB 6229 (and a companion HB 2292) would apply the capital gains tax to profits from the sale of qualified small business stock, or QSBS, even when gains are fully exempt under federal law. That means a startup founder or early employee who takes stock instead of a bigger salary would owe tax to the state when they ultimately sell the shares, which typically happens at acquisition or IPO.…
Swimlane Inc., a company that automates agentic artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, today announced AI Agent workforce, a suite of powerful AI agents now available in the company’s marketplace and integrated into the platform. “AI is opening the aperture greater than ever before on what can be automated in security,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Cody Cornell. “Security workflows that once required human-in-the-loop can now leverage expert agents to drive even more automation in their environments.” The company calls the agents Hero AI and said they are integrated natively into the company’s Turbine platform experience. It says they perform the equivalent…
The Leading Candidates for an AI BustBelow are the names that are most likely to become the future shorthand for the collapse of the 2020s AI boom. These are the names that match the psychology, economics, and symbolism of this moment.The Primary ContendersThe Great AI PopThis is the most likely winner. It is short, simple, and clearly mirrors historical naming conventions, such as The Great Recession. It works across all media formats and accommodates both gentle and severe corrections.The First AI BustThis name acknowledges that AI is not going away. It implies this is only the first cycle in a…
It's the discussion about the reaction of some people in the UK regarding their impending social media ban for under 16s that bugged me most. Most noteably was the hand-waving around "the gov is just trying to siphon up all our IDs" and "this means everyone will have to show ID, not just under 16s". If only there was another precedent somewhere in the world where precisely this model was rolled… oh – wait! 🐨 The way the ban (sorry – "delay") has been done in Australia isn't perfect, but it also doesn't have to be. There are still plenty…
According to the French music streaming service Deezer, there are about 50,000 fully AI-generated songs uploaded to its platform every day. Many of these songs won’t reach a wide audience, but over the past year, a few have gained millions of listens.Which raises the question: If our future is going to be filled with this kind of AI music, what does that future sound like?Deni Béchard is the senior science writer at Scientific American. For the better part of a month, Béchard has only allowed himself to listen to his own AI-generated music using the AI music app Suno. He…
The first-generation iPhone Air invented a new market segment — ultra-thin smartphones — but didn’t do as well as the company expected. Now that the segment has a couple of players, it’s all the more important for the Cupertino giant to maintain its lead, especially as the pioneer. To achieve that, the company has been planning to upgrade the iPhone Air 2 with a secondary camera, something we’ve known for a while. However, a new leak from the Chinese tipster Instant Digital now claims that the next-generation slim iPhone could also get a slimmer Face ID module. Slimmer Face ID…
Some of designer C Jacob Payne’s projects present new, futuristic products — such as zero-gravity footwear for astronauts, and electronic-embedded ceramics — using technological tools and processes of digital fabrication, material innovation, and interactive interfaces. Other projects travel back in time to past centuries, considering the challenge of preserving and reconstructing Black architectural heritage.Payne graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and environmental studies, and then worked briefly at architecture firms in New York and Los Angeles. He decided to pursue a professional degree in order to become a licensed architect and to try out different types…
Ravie LakshmananJan 26, 2026Cyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing campaign that’s targeting Indian users with a multi-stage backdoor as part of a suspected cyber espionage campaign. The activity, per the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU), involves using phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department of India to trick victims into downloading a malicious archive, ultimately granting the threat actors persistent access to their machines for continuous monitoring and data exfiltration. The end goal of the sophisticated attack is to deploy a variant of a known banking trojan called Blackmoon (aka KRBanker) and a legitimate enterprise tool…
A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately curb the federal operation that has put armed agents on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but ordered the government to file a new briefing by Wednesday evening answering a central claim in the case: that the surge is being used to punish Minnesota and force state and local authorities to change their laws and cooperate with the targeting of local immigrants.The order leaves the operation’s scope and tactics in place for now, but requires the federal government to explain whether it is using armed raids and street arrests to pressure…
If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it’s not just you. TikTok says is still working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of its data centers that’s caused “multiple bugs” in the app. TikTok users have reported problems logging in and uploading videos, as well as strange behavior from the “for you” algorithm. Creators have also noticed that new uploads are seemingly getting o views or likes and that in-app earnings have disappeared.”Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center…