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As I am typing this, a device rests on my wrist that purports to unlock a trove of real-time information about my body’s performance. I can click a button and check my heart rate and review how much it’s varied over the course of the day. It can tell me how many steps I’ve taken, how many minutes I’ve been “active” throughout the day, and — if I wore it while I slept — just how well I rested, according to the data its sensors can pick up from my arm.The Apple Watch is a remarkable piece of technology, when…
As AI infrastructure investment scales globally and inference workloads multiply, cache storage is emerging as the critical data layer that makes AI factories functional, persistent and economically viable in an era of disaggregated computing. VAST Data Inc. has positioned itself at the center of that shift, having closed its Series F financing at a $30 billion valuation — more than tripling its 2023 valuation — with NVIDIA Corp. among its investors. The round reflects both the company’s revenue trajectory and the architectural decisions it made years ago to build a unified AI data platform from the ground up, according to Jeff…
It’s giving away its ‘series 1′ trading cards online and at in-person event. NVIDIA NVIDIA has introduced a series of GeForce Trading Cards with 14 possible designs, which it says represents “GeForce PC gaming’s great moments,” at a time when gamers have soured on the company. The GPU-maker has been prioritizing its AI customers lately by manufacturing more products for data centers, because the AI industry has caused massive memory shortages across the board. According to reports, NVIDIA isn’t expected to launch its next set of consumer-facing GPUs for gamers until 2027. While the cards’ launch was…
The contemporary digital marketplace has deteriorated into an arena of exhausting noise, where business-to-business (B2B) sales leaders loudly broadcast their offerings to an increasingly unreceptive audience. The structural failure of modern lead generation lies in its fundamental philosophy: it treats buyers as abstract financial targets rather than individuals operating within highly specific professional contexts. This approach creates a toxic feedback loop between vendors and buyers, an economic drag that is currently being intensified by the thoughtless deployment of automated artificial intelligence tools. When stripped of marketing jargon, today’s dominant lead generation methodologies mirror the mechanics of a continuous cyberattack. This…
Ravie LakshmananJul 09, 2026Developer Security / Supply Chain Security Datadog Security Labs is warning of “several overlapping campaigns” that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. “Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub ‘ghost’ accounts that are often years old, or compromised OAuth tokens and personal access tokens (PATs) from legitimate users,” Julie Agnes Sparks, senior security engineer at Datadog, said. While the activity in most cases involves targeting public data, select instances have gone beyond public information enumeration to successfully clone private repositories. The campaign employs…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Beth Simone Noveck joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about her book, Reboot, AI and the Race to Save Democracy. She’s a professor at Northeastern, where she leads the Burns Center for Social Change. She also founded Innovate US, a training program for public sector workers. It’s grown into one of the largest AI training efforts in the country. Before that, she ran AI for the state of New Jersey and worked on tech policy for the federal government under President Obama. I admit I…
On Thursday, multiple news organizations accused OpenAI of withholding evidence about how the company trains its artificial intelligence models in a new motion that’s connected to a series of ongoing copyright lawsuits.The motion was filed by 17 publishers, including The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and Ziff Davis (CNET’s parent company). Ziff Davis sued OpenAI in 2025, alleging that OpenAI scraped its copyrighted works to train ChatGPT and other large language models. The initial lawsuit dates back to 2023 when The New York Times first sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies built their…
Netflix has spent years telling the entertainment industry that binge-worthy originals and a simple user experience were enough to stay ahead. That strategy helped make it the world’s biggest streaming service. But according to a Wall Street Journal report, the company is increasingly concerned about a different metric: engagement. While Netflix continues to post healthy profits and retains one of the lowest subscriber cancellation rates in the industry, executives are reportedly seeing early signs that people are spending less time watching content. That matters because engagement – not just subscriber numbers – has become one of the biggest indicators of…
Your Business Is Already Using AI. Is Anyone Securing It? Somewhere in your organisation right now, someone is pasting company information into a chatbot. A department has quietly signed up for an AI tool that nobody in IT has reviewed. A supplier has automated part of their process with AI, and your data is flowing through it. None of this makes your people careless. It makes them normal. AI has arrived in South African businesses faster than the policies, controls and oversight needed to use it safely, and that gap is exactly where things go wrong. At DaVinci Forensics &…
Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like construction site.Their new system, called “FloatForm,” is a swarm of small square robotic boats that assemble themselves into larger structures on the water, break apart, and reassemble into something new, all with minimal human direction. Each robot, about the size of a dinner plate at 21 centimeters square, is a self-contained vessel with its own thrusters, sensors, and magnetic latches. Together, they hint at a future in which floating infrastructure could become more adaptive: a temporary platform after…