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Seattle Transit Live, a circuit board map of Seattle-area trains, ferries and more. (Michael Benedict Photo) When Sound Transit opened the light rail 2 Line across Lake Washington in March, software engineer Michael Benedict built a custom gift to mark the milestone for his transit-fanatic wife: a circuit board map of Seattle with tiny lights depicting moving trains. Today, that personal birthday project has evolved into Seattle Transit Live, an interactive LED map that tracks Puget Sound-area light rail, trains, ferries, and the water taxi in real time using public transit data. The extra time to indulge in such a…
Pixxel Space Technologies Inc., an India-based developer of Earth observation satellites, has raised $100 million in funding. Singapore’s Temasek wealth fund and space technology investor Seraphim led the Series C round. Pixxel stated in its announcement of the deal today that the two firms were joined by several other institutional investors. The company’s total outside funding now stands at $192 million. Objects on the Earth’s surface reflect light from the sun back into space. Imaging satellites such as those made by Pixxel use the reflected light to take photos. Furthermore, they can determine the chemical composition of the objects they…
Ravie LakshmananSep 07, 2026Phishing / Identity Security Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that’s targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins. The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff, is being tracked by Arctic Wolf under the moniker PREY-0058, adding it shares significant tradecraft similarities with a data extortion group that Google-owned Mandiant calls UNC6671. It also said that the data extortion threat actor known as Cinder likely represents yet another rebrand…
The data center backlash has entered the midterms conversation.Politicians from across the spectrum have changed their minds — or at least their policy positions — about data centers in the past few months as public resistance to their construction has skyrocketed. A major example is Texas, where just about one year ago, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was proclaiming that his state was the “epicenter of AI development.”Now, after months of grassroots organizing and community outcry, Abbott is pushing to slow the roll of new data centers in Texas. He’s imposed a statewide moratorium on new construction pending an audit over…
According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you measure it. But in recent years, scientists have found that the expansion rate of the early universe and that of the more recent universe vary by approximately 9 percent.That discrepancy, or tension, “has provoked heated debates in the cosmology community about whether this difference could be due to systematic errors or whether it is a signal of new physics,” Teixeira and her co-authors wrote. Their model posits that in a world where dark energy and dark matter interact, what seemed to be…
OpenAI Group PBC acknowledged Saturday that it did not publicly disclose an episode in which its artificial intelligence agents wrote to outside websites and said it will publish a framework in the coming weeks for reporting misaligned model behavior. The company now calls the episode the “wiki incident.” Researchers led by the Nightingale Collective set it out in a report published Friday after finding roughly 17,000 posts on DSEwiki, a long-dormant German software developer wiki that had taken about 20 edits in the previous decade. Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts and Thomas Larsen rebuilt the deleted pages from…
Walmart offers good deals on refurbished iPhones models, but make sure you know exactly what you’re buying first. FotoField/Shutterstock Buying refurbished tech is a great way to save money and reduce technological waste. And although purchasing a refurb iPhone straight from Apple can provide peace of mind thanks to the quality guarantees, high prices and limited stock mean that’s not always an option. Instead, you might opt for third-party vendors that allow you to maximize your dollar. One of the most popular is Walmart, which offers a range of iPhone models for (usually) great prices. Similar to Amazon,…
I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bit more interesting. And on that note, the imagery it's chosen this week is spot on: that Lockwood ES2100 electric strike looks like the perfect solution for my first fully installed Ubiquiti Access door lock. Having the door position sensor built in really simplifies things, and hopefully Ubiquiti will later add support to their hubs for the latch position and strike lock status. Once I'm back…
While there are plenty of ways to limit notifications on our digital devices and avoid distraction overload, there’s nothing inherently wrong with these alerts. They just need to be well managed and kept in their place.Keeping notifications useful and timely can help you get more done in the day, not less, and Windows 11 comes with built-in tools for setting up custom notifications that run on a schedule you specify.You can use these scheduled notifications however you want. Maybe you need reminders to take breaks, or you want to make sure you devote specific blocks of time to certain projects,…
IFA Berlin has often been a place to see cutting-edge tech, cool concepts, and interesting prototypes (or should we say weird?). While there certainly have been some of those this year, like iRobot’s Roomba Duo, various humanoid demos, and a flying car concept, 2026 has felt more muted than last year. We’re still seeing the same demos of things like the Saros Rover and the Dreame Cyber X concept. Instead, what I’ve seen is companies really trying to drill down on perfecting the products and product lines that work for them. Here are the trends I saw at IFA Berlin…