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Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly in talks to buy Astrix Security Ltd., a startup that helps companies secure their artificial intelligence agents. The Information today cited sources as saying that the deal could be worth between $250 million and $350 million. That’s about three times the amount of funding Astrix has raised to date. The company’s investors include Workday Inc. and the Anthology Fund, an investment vehicle backed by Anthropic PBC. Tel Aviv-based Astrix sells a platform that can automatically out all the AI agents in a company’s network. It also identifies the tools they use to automate work. The…

A display of Microsoft Surface laptops at the company’s Build 2025 developer conference. (GeekWire File Photo) For the past few years, it felt as if Microsoft’s Windows org was on autopilot. (No, not THAT Autopilot.) Microsoft leadership seemed content to let Windows run its course as long as people and partners continued to pay for it in some way. The result: New features were underwhelming. Ads began popping up in the OS at every turn. Attempts to turn Windows into an “Agentic OS” were roundly hated. It hasn’t been a great time to be a Windows user. But in the…

Most B2B teams track SAO volume but ignore what happens after acceptance. Here’s why the sales accepted opportunity is your most gamed pipeline metric. To understand where a B2B revenue engine is actually healthy or quietly breaking down, skip the MQL count and look at what happens at the sales accepted opportunity stage. That handoff, the moment when a sales rep reviews a lead and decides it is worth pursuing, is where the optimism in pipeline forecasts meets the reality of buyer readiness. And for most organizations, the gap between those two things is wider than either team wants to…

Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational resources. Traditionally, obtaining a smaller, faster model either requires training a massive one first and then trimming it down, or training a small one from scratch and accepting weaker performance. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, ETH, and Liquid AI have now developed a new method that sidesteps this trade-off entirely, compressing models during training, rather than after.The technique, called CompreSSM, targets a family of AI architectures known…

LG’s 2026 OLED lineup is headlined by the G6, but the C6 is likely the model most people will end up considering. On paper, both TVs share a lot, including LG’s new Alpha 11 AI processor Gen 3, along with similar gaming features and AI-driven tools. After seeing both models up close during LG’s recent reviewer workshop at its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, the overlap becomes even more apparent, but so do the areas where they start to separate. The differences aren’t always obvious at first glance. If you’ve been trying to figure out what actually separates the G6…

Google News has begun showing Polymarket bets and odds alongside actual stories, . These look to appear as large blocks that include links to numerous ways for people to lose their money.Bets tend to appear in the “For you” section of Google News, which is supposed to be tailored to a person’s particular interests. Futurism notes that the platform actually placed a Polymarket bet as the top news result when inquiring about the price of Bitcoin.The publication saw links to the prediction market all over Google News, including in searches. It popped up in queries regarding the Strait of Hormuz,…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖I spent the last week of March on the floor at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco. 50,000+ attendees. Nearly 700 exhibitors. Four days of keynotes, demos, side meetings, and conversations.I came back with more clarity than I’ve had in years. It wasn’t that everything was new. The signals were consistent. Founders, investors, CISOs, researchers — everyone saw the same problems.Here are my seven takeaways. It is for builders. Treat it as a field guide.At RSAC 2026, AI was the core of every conversation, keynote, product launch, and investment thesis.The question has changed. We are no longer…

While Aventon is known first and foremost as an ebike brand, the company started by making fixies in 2013. That gives it some bona fides when it comes to making enjoyable rides for experienced cyclists. (In addition to the Current ADV, there’s also a higher-end model, the Current EXP, with a more expensive carbon frame and better components.) Since its first venture into e-MTBs with the Ramblas in 2024, the company has continued to develop very nicely specced electric mountain bikes for the price.The designers behind the newest iterations did a masterful job. The Current ADV looks 100 percent the…

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Proof of Work (PoW)Ties every node to a real computational cost, making mass fake node creation prohibitively expensiveBlockchain and permissionless networksProof of Stake (PoS)Requires staked capital per node; slashing penalties deter attackers from running Sybil nodes at scaleBlockchain and DeFi protocolsIdentity validation (phone, credit card, KYC)Forces a hard-to-duplicate real-world credential per identity, raising the cost of fake account creationConsumer platforms, financial services, Web3 onboardingTrust graph analysis (SybilGuard, SybilRank)Identifies Sybil clusters through structural anomalies in the network social graph without exposing user identityPeer-to-peer networks, social platformsProof of personhoodTies each identity to a verified unique human, making one-entity-many-identities attacks structurally impossibleDAO governance,…