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Iowa lawmakers voted to advance state House bill 751 last week, legislation that would ensure farmers in the state can freely repair their own agricultural equipment, like tractors. This Tuesday, the bill was renamed to House File 2709 and will be voted on again. Should the political winds align, it will go through the Iowa House and Senate before the Iowa legislature adjourns on April 21.The bill is the first of nearly 57 state bills supported by repair advocates across the country in 2026. Many of them focus on farm equipment in states like Oklahoma, Wyoming, Delaware, and West Virginia.…

Paramount Skydance has won its bidding war against Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Late Thursday, Netflix walked away from its planned takeover of Netflix, saying it “had declined to raise its offer” after Paramount submitted a revised all-cash bid of $31 per share on Tuesday to buy WBD in its entirety. WBD had reviewed the rival offer and announced that its board of directors found it “superior” to the Netflix agreement. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said in a statement: “At the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive.” The statement went on to say:…

Cybersecurity data science has shifted enterprise defense from a human-led response to a high-speed computational challenge. As attackers automate and compress breach timelines, organizations must analyze massive volumes of telemetry in near-real-time to keep pace. Nowhere is this speed mismatch more visible than in the modern security operations center. As threat actors weaponize automation to breach environments in minutes, the traditional security operations center is struggling to bridge a 45-minute “alert gap” created by fragmented tools and legacy pipelines, according to Josh Salmanson (pictured, far left), vice president of the Cyber Defensive Practice at Leidos Inc. “Adversaries are getting into an environment…

Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks like advanced programming and multistep planning.But developing reasoning models demands an enormous amount of computation and energy due to inefficiencies in the training process. While a few of the high-power processors continuously work through complicated queries, others in the group sit idle.Researchers from MIT and elsewhere found a way to use this computational downtime to efficiently accelerate reasoning-model training.Their new method automatically trains a smaller, faster model to predict the…

A recent Omegle interaction between American streamer IShowSpeed and a Mongolian woman has gone viral. As IShowSpeed matched with the soundly sleeping woman on the video chat platform, he immediately started shouting, “Hey, wake the fuck up, wake up, wake up, yeah, wake up, it’s that time.” The startled woman woke up, initially appearing confused by the abrupt awakening. During their exchange, IShowSpeed told her it was “four o’clock in the evening, I mean afternoon,” to which she remarked that it was actually five in the morning in Mongolia. Upon learning her location, the streamer revealed he had previously visited…

A “coordinated developer-targeting campaign” is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish persistent access to compromised machines. “The activity aligns with a broader cluster of threats that use job-themed lures to blend into routine developer workflows and increase the likelihood of code execution,” the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said in a report published this week. The tech giant said the campaign is characterized by the use of multiple entry points that lead to the same outcome, where attacker-controlled JavaScript is retrieved at runtime and executed to facilitate…

The agreement between Orange and Samsung to scale Open RAN deployments across Europe in 2026 is being reported as a partnership announcement. We think it is something with higher stakes than that. Orange has committed to a RAN renewal tender covering all its European country sites this year, requiring every submitted solution to carry Open RAN support. The addressable scope is approximately 10,000 sites. That is not a pilot. That is a procurement posture that will force every vendor operating in European telecoms to respond to it. The technical architecture is worth understanding. Samsung’s AI-powered vRAN solution runs on Intel…

Open-source LLMs and multimodal models are released at a steady pace. Many report strong results across benchmarks for reasoning, coding, and document understanding. Benchmark performance provides useful signals, but it does not determine production viability. Latency ceilings, GPU availability, licensing terms, data privacy requirements, and inference cost under sustained load define whether a model fits your environment. In this piece, we’ll outline a structured approach to selecting the right open-source model based on workload type, infrastructure constraints, and measurable deployment requirements. TL;DR Start with constraints, not benchmarks. GPU limits, latency targets, licensing, and cost narrow the field before capability comparisons…

These F&B chains are winning over the taste buds of Singaporeans “I support foreign F&B [brands] over local ones.” It’s a statement that sparked debate on a Reddit thread—and it reflects a growing trend in Singapore’s dining scene. While Singaporeans still love their local fare, an increasing number are showing support for foreign F&B brands. This shift is evident in the wave of international F&B chains expanding and growing their presence here. Over the past few years, Singapore has seen a significant influx of international food and beverage operators. As of 2025, around 85 Chinese F&B brands alone were operating…

Perplexity just launched a feature that lets different AI models collaborate on the same task. Called Perplexity Computer, it taps Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT 5.2 depending on what you need. But Computer does more than answer questions. It completes tasks. The tool is live today for Perplexity Max subscribers on desktop web and will reach Enterprise Max users soon. The system runs Opus 4.6 as its core reasoning engine. But for specific jobs, it hands off to specialist models. Gemini handles deep research by creating sub-agents. Grok jumps in for speed on lightweight tasks. ChatGPT 5.2 manages long-context recall and…