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Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees have sued the company in federal court in Oakland, California, alleging it used AI-powered software to disproportionately target workers with disabilities, medical leave histories, and pregnancies during mass layoffs. The employees are seeking to halt the next round of layoffs, scheduled to begin on Jul 22, while they pursue arbitration. The plaintiffs, from six states, including California, New York and Washington, DC, accused Meta of using tools such as Metamate and productivity metrics to rank employees when it cut thousands of jobs—about 10% of its workforce—earlier in 2026. The lawsuit, filed on July 13, said that…
Ravie LakshmananJul 15, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation in the DOM: Navigation component “We are aware that exploit code for this is public, however we are not aware of any attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” Mozilla said in an advisory. Both vulnerabilities have been addressed in Firefox version 152.0.6. The release comes as Google shipped fixes for 15 security…
Exposure management company Tenable Holdings Inc. today expanded its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to pull application security risk into the same view as the rest of an organization’s exposure data. By adding static code vulnerability information, the platform now tracks risk from code through to runtime across the attack surface. The addition targets a gap that has grown as software ships faster. Vulnerable code often reaches production before anyone can review it, a problem Tenable says generative artificial intelligence is making worse. Developers using AI assistants write code three to four times faster while introducing flaws at up to 10 times…
Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed software engineering. Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) can create huge volumes of code and documentation; machine-learning algorithms can monitor performance and detect security vulnerabilities. But when the task is to conceive, design, and make a complex physical system such as a jet engine, are those AI tools equally transformative?This past semester, the JARVIS Challenge (Jet-engine AI Research and Validation Intensive Sprint) set out to explore whether AI can compress the design-build-test cycle, asking MIT undergraduates to discover whether AI can help them to build faster and better. “The JARVIS challenge showed that AI can…
Marc Austin of Hedgehog. As AI workloads drive soaring cloud bills, more companies are weighing whether to move computing out of public clouds and into their own data centers. But building and operating AI infrastructure is far more complicated than simply buying servers — networking has become one of the biggest technical hurdles. That’s the opportunity Seattle startup Hedgehog is chasing. Founded in 2022 by CEO Marc Austin, a Cisco networking veteran, Hedgehog develops open-source software designed to make private AI data centers operate more like hyperscale clouds. It has raised $11 million in seed funding, with plans to raise…
The Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) has launched an inquiry into Google’s removal of the Android “Choice Screen.” After setting up a new Android phone in Zurich, users might notice a subtle shift in the vibe. Unlike your neighbors in France or Germany, you’re no longer greeted by that handy “Choice Screen” asking which search engine you’d prefer as your default. Instead, it’s straight to Google. This little disappearing act has caught the attention of Switzerland’s antitrust regulator, COMCO, which just launched a preliminary probe into why Swiss users are suddenly missing out on choices the rest of Europe takes for…
Not long ago, the work of creating a competitive analysis took weeks of research, strategic frameworks and review. This service could cost $10,000 or more for the analysis plus strategy recommendations. Today with AI, the time (and cost) has shrunk to almost nothing.
It seems some people take issue with one billionaire family overseeing a third of the US’ entertainment media. Alex Millauer/Shutterstock The Writers Guild of America East and Writers Guild of America West have combined forces for an antitrust lawsuit against Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Their case claims that the deal violates US antitrust laws as well as creating specific business harms to writers. The writers’ unions complaint raises concerns that “the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. entity would have both the incentive and the ability to lower costs by suppressing writers’ wages and reducing output.…
“Build a smart home”, they said. “It’ll make life so much better”, they said. Well, life wasn’t very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the 9V “jump start” procedure completely failing! Eventually, the locksmith arrived and opened an old-school physical lock on another door in an alarmingly short time. So, lessons:Battery-powered locks suck and will eventually lock you out of your houseDon’t trust a fallback mechanism as rudimentary as “hold a 9V battery on some terminals”Always have an old school manual backup approach, AKA…
Coding used to be reserved for developers who spent years learning complex languages. That has slowly changed with vibe coding, which lets you build apps and websites using simple, plain-language prompts. The problem is that most of these tools still feel intimidating for regular folks, as they still need to understand the code to make any meaningful changes. If not, everything you make tends to look the same. Canva wants to fix that. Today, the company is rolling out Canva Code 2.0 to its entire community, combining AI-powered coding with its design tools, giving users an easy way to customize…