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Ring has a new answer to a difficult security-camera trade-off: keeping cloud-powered intelligence without retaining long-term access to the keys that unlock customers’ videos. The Amazon-owned company announced TAKE, or Throw Away the Key Encryption, on Aug. 26. A phased rollout begins in September 2026, with Ring planning to make the system its default encryption worldwide while retaining cloud-dependent features such as intelligent alerts, video descriptions, and search. End-to-end encryption will remain optional. How Ring TAKE limits access to video Under Ring’s TAKE system, recordings use unique, rotating encryption keys. Ring temporarily holds a copy inside a secure cloud enclave…
Under the influence of psychedelics, the usual organization of the human brain loosens. That’s what scientists have generally thought, with several studies showing that when we take these substances, the signals pinging between our neurons become more diverse and unpredictable. This increased entropy in our gray matter may underlie the strange, random, and often memorable experiences of psychedelic trips.But in one of the largest neuroimaging studies on the effects of psilocybin to date, researchers uncovered a hidden order in the apparent chaos. The study, published in Nature, indicates that while psilocybin blurs some of the boundaries within the brain, our…
Agnes Kim, founder of ViaJiin, a Korean-sourced beauty supply startup based in the Seattle area, with some of the skincare products that her new company offers. (ViaJiin Photos) Long before the July email arrived confirming she was one of thousands of Xbox employees laid off in Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts, Agnes Kim could feel the impending doom hanging over big tech. But instead of waiting around for the next pendulum swing, the eight-year Xbox veteran spent her nights and weekends laying the groundwork for a very different kind of reboot: a boutique Korean skincare startup called ViaJiin. The…
Owner.com Inc., a startup with a platform that helps restaurant operators coordinate their day-to-day business operations, has raised $240 million in funding. Goldman Sachs led the Series D round. Owner said in today’s funding announcement that the bank was joined by Meritech, Redpoint, Headline and Benchmark partner Jack Altman, Sam Altman’s brother. The startup is now worth $2.3 billion. Many of the features in Owner’s platform focus on easing restaurants’ marketing efforts. The software can generate a restaurant website complete with a menu, a form for submitting catering orders and other promotional widgets in a few days. From there, it occasionally…
Imagine this: Two countries are at war. Country X sends a drone into a major industrial city in Country Y, aiming to take out two propane tanks. A routine sequence. But this time, the drone never reaches its targets. Instead, Country X’s drone accidentally strikes a wall nearby, explodes, and kills three young civilians.When Country Y eventually retrieves the drone’s remnants for intel, it finds an AI supercomputer inside that reveals something unsettling. Instead of a human deciding what to strike — the AI did.A Russian AI-enabled drone reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine, killing three civilians — an…
Paid content syndication puts your content in front of buyers already researching your category. Most B2B teams run it wrong and wonder why downloads don’t become pipeline. Most B2B marketing teams chase two problems at once: not enough leads, and leads that never convert. Paid content syndication solves the first problem reliably. Whether it solves the second one depends entirely on what happens after the download. Here’s the setup. A prospect researches a category your product addresses. A publisher in a paid syndication network surfaces your whitepaper or eBook while they’re mid-research. They submit their details to access it. You…
People are grafting a pre-release version onto their favorite games with unspectacular results. Sometimes, photorealism (or something approaching it) makes a video game look better. Other times, well, you get whatever this is from NVIDIA’s leaked build of DLSS 5. The unfinished software, extracted from an early-access PC version of NBA 2K27, has been grafted onto various games. The results are… let’s just say, not universally beloved. DLSS 5’s neural rendering model takes the upscaling technology in a new direction. Rather than simply reconstructing a sharper version of the image the game rendered, it “infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and…
Ravie LakshmananAug 28, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company released a fresh emergency fix with additional hardening. “This vulnerability gives an unauthenticated attacker remote control over PaperCut’s trusted configuration, which could be used to execute arbitrary Java code inside the application’s process,” Huntress researchers John Hammond and Andrew Brandt said. Specifically, an attacker can leverage an unauthenticated request to make changes to the server configuration and ultimately achieve code execution. Huntress has explained the flaw as follows -…
Meta’s smart glasses have already started facing restrictions in pubs, restaurants, theaters, and courtrooms across the UK. Now, one of New York City’s better-known nightclubs is bringing the same privacy fight to the US. Basement has announced that smart glasses are not allowed inside the venue because of its existing no-photo and no-video policy (via Futurism). Anyone who brings them in, whether they are wearing the glasses or simply carrying them in a bag, will be asked to leave and could even be permanently banned. People generally do not like being filmed by strangers. Being recorded without realizing it is…
A cyberattack on three of the U.K.’s busiest airports has exposed personal information belonging to about 8.7 million customers, turning routine airport Wi-Fi and booking records into a security concern. Manchester Airport, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport were targeted in an attack on Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates all three facilities. The compromised information included email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registration numbers and postcodes. Most of the affected data appears to be email addresses collected when passengers signed up for airport Wi-Fi, according to the BBC. Other information came from customers using services such as airport parking, lounges…