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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced an overhaul of how it processes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database . NIST is abandoning its longstanding goal of fully analyzing every submitted Common Vulnerability and Exposure in favor of a risk-based triage model that prioritizes the most dangerous flaws. The change, which took effect today, is the result of the sheer volume of CVE submissions that NIST has been receiving and the number is high. Between 2020 and 2025, CVE submissions surged 263% and in the first quarter of this year, they were nearly one-third higher than the same…

When AT&T recently revamped its unlimited phone plans, the top-level Premiere 2.0 plan cost more than the Unlimited Premium PL plan it replaced. (The Extra 2.0 and Value 2.0 plans came in as less expensive options than their predecessors.) And then the company raised the costs of “retired” plans, encouraging subscribers to switch over — but not giving folks willing to pay for top-tier plans much incentive to do so. Now it looks like AT&T is going to add a pricier unlimited plan that includes more hotspot data to the top spot of its lineup. As reported by Android Authority referencing a…

Bluefish is on the verge of an AI-powered breakthrough- helping organizations appear on search conducted on LLMs. Recently, the organization raised $43 million in its Series B funding. This is a huge milestone for Bluefish. “Having reached over 1 billion MAU within 12-months of launch, AI is clearly the next major marketing channel on the internet, just like search, social, or mobile before it,” said Alex Sherman, co-founder and CEO of Bluefish. “To manage this critical new channel properly, enterprise brands are looking for agentic marketing technology partners with the same enterprise-grade sophistication that they expect across their existing marketing stack. From day one, Bluefish has focused exclusively on building the most comprehensive agentic…

If you have ever finished an audiobook and wished you owned the book, Spotify has an easy solution. The company now lets you buy physical books directly from its app in the U.S. and the U.K. How to buy physical books in the Spotify app? Spotify has partnered with Bookshop for the sale of paper books. When you browse an audiobook on Spotify, you will now see an option to buy a copy. Once you tap it, Spotify redirects you to Bookshop’s website to complete the purchase. This means Spotify does not process payments itself. Instead, it acts as a…

1 in 5 Singaporeans are overqualified for their jobs, according to a new MOM study Singapore workers are better educated than ever, but that doesn’t always translate into the jobs they take. A new Ministry of Manpower (MOM) study, released on Apr 14, finds that nearly one in five (19.4%) of resident workers held qualifications higher than what their jobs required in 2025, up from 16.3% in 2015. And most of them chose this path voluntarily, with about nine in 10 underemployed workers—equivalent to 17.7% of the resident workforce—saying they had done so by choice. Many were motivated by factors…

Other Standing Desks to ConsiderPhotograph: Nicole KinningLuxor Compact Electric Standing Desk for $200: The Luxor is a no-nonsense standing desk that does exactly what you expect and takes up minimal space. It’s perfect for students, small apartments, and anyone who needs a compact, budget-friendly setup. At 23.5 inches deep, the tabletop is shallow enough to fit into tight corners or shared spaces. The electric lift moves steadily at an inch per second, whisper-quiet, and the 154-pound weight capacity can handle a laptop, monitor, and a few textbooks with no sweat. The lift mechanism is exposed underneath, so you’ll want to…

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is directing $500,000 from a state economic development fund to support the expansion of IonQ’s manufacturing facility for quantum computing hardware in Bothell, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Leaders of the Pacific Northwest’s computing community gathered in downtown Seattle today to mark World Quantum Day — and Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson gave them one more reason to celebrate. Or rather, 500,000 reasons. Ferguson took the occasion to announce that $500,000 would be directed from the Governor’s Economic Development Strategic Reserve Fund to support the expansion of IonQ’s quantum computer manufacturing facility in Bothell, Wash. The…

Microsoft Corp.’s push for artificial intelligence independence is gaining traction with today’s release of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lean and mean version of its flagship image generation model that debuted earlier this month. The new version is meant to deliver high-quality visuals faster, and at a fraction of the cost of its predecessor, the company said. The original MAI-Image-2 model was released by Microsoft’s new MAI superintelligence team earlier this month, and the team led by Mustafa Suleyman gets credit for launching a streamlined version of that model just weeks later. As the name suggests, MAI-Image-2-Efficient is all about efficiency, with Microsoft…

The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver to fix?Such underwater human-robot teaming is the focus of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory project funded through an internally administered R&D portfolio on autonomous systems and carried out by the Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology Group. The project seeks to leverage the respective strengths of humans and…

In 1964, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted that computers would overtake human evolution.“Present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation,” he told the BBC. “They will start to think, and eventually, they will completely out-think their makers.”Daniel Roher opens his new documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) with this cheerful prophecy. And in the hundred-some minutes that follow, he tries to make sense of a technology that, by his own admission, he does not understand — and a world that is rapidly being changed by it.…