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Time to get philosophical, because why not? At the core of this cheeky question, “Is AI better than bacon?” lies a deeper inquiry: What do we value more, the power of the mind or the pleasures of the flesh (the delicious, smoked flesh of a pig in this case)? It’s a classic brain-vs-belly showdown, Socrates meets Epicurus, high logic meets hearty breakfast.AI represents the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement … it’s all about the mind, reasoning, intelligence, the very things that historically were thought to separate humans from animals. Bacon, humble and beautiful, represents something very earthy and primal ……
Jan 16, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Threat Intelligence The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that’s designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 archives. “The actor creates a malformed archive as an anti-analysis technique,” Expel security researcher Aaron Walton said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “That is, many unarchiving tools are not able to consistently extract it, but one critical unarchiving tool seems to work consistently and reliably: the default tool built into Windows systems.” This leads to a scenario where the archive cannot…
Open-source database maker ClickHouse Inc. today announced that it has closed a $400 million late-stage funding round at a $15 billion valuation. The Series D investment, which comes about six months after the company’s previous raise, was led by Dragoneer. It was joined by GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price and WCM Investment Management. The round follows a year in which ClickHouse’s annualized recurring revenue rose by more than 250%. “Major platform shifts ultimately reward the infrastructure companies that sit closest to production,” said Dragoneer partner Christian Jensen. “As models become more capable, the bottleneck…
A founding AI engineer at Delve, an AI startup based out of San Francisco, had been working all-nighters for three days straight. The techie was snapped hooked to his workstation, along with the co-founder having a chuckle. The Indian-origin MIT-graduate CEO, Mr. Karun Kaushik, shared the candid picture online, bragging about “this team never stops shipping,” until social media schooled him back. Anti-aging crusader and multi-millionaire entrepreneur Bryan Johnson slammed the boss with a tweet stating the following adverse impact of burning midnight oil: 3 all-nighters = impaired glucose metabolism, elevated cortisol, reduced BDNF, increased IL-6, shortened telomeres, cognitive decline,…
Generative artificial intelligence models have left such an indelible impact on digital content creation that it’s getting harder to recall what the internet was like before it. You can call on these AI tools for clever projects such as videos and photos — but their flair for the creative hasn’t quite crossed over into the physical world just yet.So why haven’t we seen generative AI-enabled personalized objects, such as phone cases and pots, in places like homes, offices, and stores yet? According to MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers, a key issue is the mechanical integrity of…
As South Africans take advantage of the ease and convenience of the digital financial world, it has become increasingly more simple for threat actors to take advantage. Deceiving the average individual has become rather simple for cybercriminals as the internet brings them a wealth of information. All it takes is one or two rather official looking emails or texts and a simple “click” can end up devastating personal finances for good. The use of mobile phones as a main access point has given digital criminals the ability to target unsuspecting individuals. This is especially important as more make use of…
Apple’s new Creative Studio subscription isn’t just cheaper than Adobe Creative Cloud. It reframes what creative software should feel like: fast, integrated, and human. Apple entered the creative software conversation with a clear position. Creative work should feel fluid, predictable, and fast. Creative Studio reflects that belief at every level, from pricing to product design. The $12.99 subscription matters, but cost alone does not explain the reaction. The real shift lies in how Apple frames creative tooling. Creative Studio treats creation as a continuous process that moves cleanly across apps, devices, and formats. Video, audio, graphics, and publishing feel connected…
This blog post focuses on new features and improvements. For a comprehensive list, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. Clarifai’s Compute Orchestration lets you deploy models on your own compute, control how they scale, and decide where inference runs across clusters and nodepools. As AI systems move beyond single inference calls toward long-running tasks, multi-step workflows, and agent-driven execution, orchestration needs to do more than just start containers. It needs to manage execution over time, handle failure, and route traffic intelligently across compute. This release builds on that foundation with native support for long-running pipelines, model routing across nodepools…
Hello Cyber Builders 🖖With 2025 wrapping up, here’s a look back at what I covered this year. I know newsletters are supposed to focus on a few topics and go deep, but on Cyber Builders, I went the other way, exploring a range of themes.Agentic Transformation: The industry is moving from passive assistants to active, autonomous agents. This shift means reliability and better user experience matter more than ever. I also rolled out my own framework, HAEGID, to help make sense of it.Cybersecurity Market: I covered the 12 leading platforms shaping the market. When Gartner has 50+ acronyms (honestly, I stopped counting!), I tried…
Taoist sculpture maker Say Tian Hng has been around for 130 years, but it’s now facing steeper competition “It’s all disappearing.” The words come out matter-of-factly from Ng Tze Yong, the sixth-generation artisan at Say Tian Hng. He’s referring to the heritage businesses in Singapore quietly closing their doors—a harsh reality that he, too, could confront at Say Tian Hng, the last remaining family-run Taoist effigy-crafting shop in Singapore. But for Tze Yong, that ending is unacceptable. “I don’t want Say Tian Hng to pass,” he says. “I want it to survive. In fact, I want it to thrive.” Faced…