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agent and .agi are taking the crown for top-level domains in an AI-first internet. ICANN reveals its long-awaited 2026 list of generic top-level domain applications. And the Internet has undergone a stark rebranding: its address bar is entering an aggressive new era. Tech giants to domain speculators have all filed over 1,600 proposals in a bid to stake early claims on the modern web. Well, the consensus? Move over, .com and .app. .agent and .agi are the real ones on this battlefield. This domain gold rush determines a massive structural shift in how users and machines interact with the web.…

When I first got my hands on the iPhone Duo, I admittedly dismissed the unfolding animation that would soon become a highlight of online discourse. I was less interested in the smooth transition as content shifted from one screen to another and more focused on details such as the matte inner display and seemingly invisible crease. But in the weeks since Apple unveiled its first foldable iPhone, which drops Oct. 23, I’ve seen countless examples on social media of people trying to recreate that buzzed-about animation on their Android foldables. While the Play Store offers plenty of launchers for customizing…

Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.Even as AI supercharges digital scamming and cybercrime, it’s also being recruited in the fight to protect potential victims. Governments around the world have consistently struggled to address the global crisis of online crime, grappling with the limitations of attempting to crack down on criminals beyond their borders. This has inspired alternative efforts, like using automation to attempt to go after scammers en masse—perhaps by…

The new office will be Revolut’s first permanent base in Singapore Revolut will open a new office at Collyer Quay Centre, a mark of its expansion plans in Singapore and the region, the London-headquartered fintech company said on Oct 8. It will also invest nearly S$350 million in Singapore over the next five years, spanning product innovation, business growth and the expansion of its local workforce. The new office, occupying 8,880 sq ft on the ninth floor of Collyer Quay Centre, is slated to open in early 2027, with the company’s name displayed on the building. Revolut currently operates out…

Data center hardware startup Oxide Computer Inc. today announced that it has raised $445 million in funding. Returning backer Eclipse Capital led the Series D round. It was joined by AMD Ventures, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Atreides Management and USIT, which led Oxide’s previous $200 million raise in February. Oxide sells a data center rack that combines computing, storage and network equipment in a pre-integrated package. It contains 24 hardware modules dubbed sleds. Each sled hosts an up to 144-core central processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The CPU has access to about 1.64 terabytes of memory and up…

The initiative represents an Institute-wide effort to address the national challenge of improving STEM education and helping it adapt to shifting societal needs. MIT for America will leverage the Institute’s longstanding strengths to develop new programs and expand existing projects, while amplifying MIT’s impact on national education.MIT for America’s faculty leaders emphasize that the initiative will support programs that can be scaled up and that provide direct, face-to-face guidance for learners and educators. “The goal is to provide programs that are both scalable and high-touch, and make an impact across the country,” says Professor Eric Klopfer, a faculty co-director of MIT…

Executives from most brands commit a simple yet glaring error: they look at PPC conversion and allocate budget that should have been SEO’s to performance. And by the end of the quarter- they have burned through the entirety of their marketing budget with the CLV: LTV ratio all out of whack. Organic acquisition must get its due- even though the numbers might be small compared to performance- it does something no channel can: it gives context to a real search. But organizations don’t do that. They want tomorrow’s results yesterday- and fail in doing so. In business strategy, Goodhart’s Law…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox News in Florida. (Screen grab via Fox News) When Jeff Bezos sat down on Blue Origin’s Cape Canaveral factory floor for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier earlier this week, he laid out an unapologetic defense of free enterprise and wealth creation. “Success is not villainy,” Bezos said. The Amazon founder’s point was simple: building a massively successful enterprise isn’t something society should apologize for or view with suspicion, it’s the natural result of creating something people actually want. “There’s nothing wrong with making unbelievably good chicken that…

Container environments differ from traditional server environments in an important way: the processes and assets involved are often short-lived, and risk can enter earlier in the pipeline. A vulnerability can arrive already sitting in one of the base images pulled from a public registry, ride through pull requests and build pipelines untouched, and end up baked into every container built from that image afterward.Base layers pulled from third party images are a common software supply chain entry point for outdated packages and insecure configurations. Poor secrets management, including API keys or other embedded secrets left sitting in environment variables, adds…

Tesla’s most advanced driver-assistance feature is named Full Self-Driving (Supervised), but it can’t actually drive itself. While the feature can handle tasks like accelerating, braking, steering, and parking, the automaker requires drivers to stay alert and intervene at all times. Now, the company has officially renamed it to Tesla Assisted Driving (TAD) in Europe as it works to convince regulators to allow its use on public roads.Tesla offered to change the name, according to a statement by the German Transport Ministry. The statement says that German Transport Minister Steffen Bilger found the “FSD” name “somewhat misleading.” After discussions with Tesla…