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AI agents aren’t replacing your B2B team. They’re doing the work nobody had time for. Here’s what real AI agent workflows look like when they’re actually running. Most B2B conversations about AI agents stay theoretical for too long. The whitepapers describe what’s coming. The vendor demos show a polished version of what the product can do in ideal conditions. And somewhere between the vision and the reality, the people responsible for implementation are left trying to figure out where to actually start. Here’s what that middle ground looks like when teams get it right. Not the future version. The version…

We are standing on the precipice of a monumental shift in how humans interact with machines. For over four decades, the personal computer has been a fundamentally passive device. It waits for a keystroke, a mouse click, or a touch command before doing exactly—and only—what it is told. Even the early iterations of artificial intelligence, including the first wave of cloud-based large language models (LLMs), operated on this call-and-response paradigm. You prompt, it answers. You ask for a summary, it provides one. But the device itself remains an interface, a gateway to compute power rather than an independent actor. That…

Armed with a 300-club regional network, the gym chain sees plenty of room to grow here If you’re a regular gymgoer in Singapore, you’ve probably noticed a growing number of 24/7 Fitness outlets popping up across the city-state. The Hong Kong-born gym chain has been steadily expanding its local footprint since entering the market in 2024 through its acquisition of Gymmboxx. Since then, the company has opened new locations in areas ranging from Orchard and Tanjong Pagar to heartland neighbourhoods. The growth is particularly notable given the challenges facing Singapore’s fitness industry. Rising operating costs and increasing competition have forced…

Australia’s world-first teen social media ban was supposed to keep children under 16 away from popular platforms, including Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X. While this was a major controversial change, it appears that getting around it was barely even a challenge. Researchers created 50 test accounts across nine of the ten platforms covered by the law. Each account claimed its user was 16, the minimum permitted age. None of the platforms asked the researchers to provide proof or complete another age-assurance check. Only the Australian livestreaming platform Kick refused to create an account without a proper age verification. Why…

A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization’s private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen credentials and no access to the organization. If that organization has given the agent read access across its repositories, private ones included, the issue can steer it into pulling private contents into a public comment. Noma calls the technique GitLost. The target is GitHub Agentic Workflows, a feature now in public preview that GitHub launched in February. Instead of writing automation…

Gardyn Home 4.0 (9/10 WIRED Recommends) was one of the easiest indoor gardens to assemble and set up out of the box; it also yielded the most dramatic success of any of the brands I tried. Flowers, kohlrabi, thyme, and even a whole cauliflower all thrived in this pipe-based system with the lights in front to allow for taller plant growth.Seeds arrive in proprietary pods called yCubes. Part of what makes the Gardyn foolproof is the subscription app add-on, “Kelby,” which monitors your plants via attached sensors and cameras. It delivers customized watering and lighting schedules, as well as maintenance…

Amazon’s headquarters buildings and the Spheres in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood in September 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon has cut a total of 57 jobs in Washington state across various teams, including roles at the director and senior manager levels, according to a filing made public Monday morning. People impacted by the cuts include 16 software engineers as well as product managers and creative marketing employees working in Seattle and Bellevue offices. Nine remote employees, including investigation specialists and risk managers, were also let go. Employees were notified of the layoffs throughout May and in early June, according…

A chipmaker called Syntiant Corp. that specializes in making low-powered processors that run artificial intelligence locally on devices has filed to go public. The company filed its initial public offering paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier today in a bid to tap into investor’s insatiable appetite for new AI bets. Founded in 2017 by four co-founders, including its Chief Executive Officer Kurt Busch, Syntiant is a developer of tiny, ultra-low-power chips that can run computations on devices such as wearables, earbuds, cars, robots, drones and industrial machinery, enabling them to gather data from the environments they operate…

Because a static image scanner flags every known vulnerability in a package regardless of whether that package ever gets loaded, executed, or reached once the container is running. A base image can carry two dozen theoretical security vulnerabilities that create zero real exposure, simply because the vulnerable function never gets called. The fix is runtime context: checking whether the vulnerable package is actually running, has network access, or holds root privileges before treating every CVE as equally urgent.

In 2022, a father and son in Florida received notifications from their Ring doorbell camera: Someone was at their door. The pair quickly jumped into action, scouring their apartment complex for a would-be intruder. The scene they happened upon was a woman checking her phone in her car. They fired seven shots at her as she drove away.The woman, who survived, had never approached their door. The person who was captured on camera turned out to be a neighbor dropping off a package that had been mistakenly delivered to his home.This is an extreme example of paranoia-fueled behavior spurred by…