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It turns out that making a phone thinner doesn’t automatically make it more popular. Reports suggest the iPhone Air hasn’t sold well, and now it appears Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge, a phone launched as a direct competitor to the iPhone Air, hasn’t performed much better. In an interview with Bloomberg, Won-Joon Choi, chief operating officer of Samsung’s Mobile Experience Business, said that the sales for Galaxy S25 Edge were “relatively lower than other lineups.” He attributed the lower sales numbers to the small battery pack, which provides lower endurance than the company’s other offering.  Andy Boxall / Digital Trends Samsung…

Have you ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn’t work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like decor and personal accessories, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models can relate. They can produce creative and elaborate 3D designs, but when you try to fabricate such blueprints into real-world objects, they usually don’t sustain everyday use.The underlying problem is that genAI models often lack an understanding of physics. While tools like Microsoft’s TRELLIS system can create a 3D model from a text prompt or image, its design for a chair, for example, may be unstable, or have…

Hello, Cyber Builders 🖖In recent months, I’ve looked at how cloud, SaaS, and now AI are changing cybersecurity go-to-market strategies. This post wraps up that series, and it’s the one that matters most.This isn’t just another round of new features. There’s a real shift in how cybersecurity value is built, delivered, and sold. The lines between software vendors, system integrators, and MSSPs are fading. At the same time, AI is starting to automate work that used to require skilled people—like tuning detections, triaging alerts, running investigations, and making recommendations.As product and service lines blur and AI automation grows, every business…

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…