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Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. The war in Iran has been raging for a month now, and the resulting energy crisis has hurt the world, as oil and gas prices surged in response to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20% of the world’s energy travels each year. Much of Asia, as well as countries in the Pacific, have been badly affected, as many of them depend on Gulf shipments of oil and LNG (liquified natural gas) for electricity generation and transportation. We’ve seen reports of petrol stations…

I’ve been trying to become fluent in Spanish for the last decade. After spending most of my adult life surrounded by multilinguals, I often feel like I’m playing an impossible game of catch-up. Like everyone else, I’ve tried to become regimented with practicing on an in-phone app like Duolingo, which attempts to ‘game-ify’ language learning, but mostly ends up with a sad and sick-looking green bird icon guilting me to practice every time I open up my phone.Babbel aims to help people actually learn the language through practical conversation and grammar, using proven pedagogical methods and speech recognition technology. Each…

Designers, makers, and others often use 3D printing to rapidly prototype a range of functional objects, from movie props to medical devices. Accurate print previews are essential so users know a fabricated object will perform as expected.But previews generated by most 3D-printing software focus on function rather than aesthetics. A printed object may end up with a different color, texture, or shading than the user expected, resulting in multiple reprints that waste time, effort, and material.To help users envision how a fabricated object will look, researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use preview tool that puts appearance first.Users upload…

Moss: Book II. (Polyarc screenshot) Polyarc, the Seattle-based VR gaming developer behind the award-winning Moss series, announced that it’s had to “significantly reduce the size of the company.” The announcement, via LinkedIn on Monday, notes that the layoffs come after “an unsuccessful team-wide effort to secure funding following the cancellation of a major project.” The company, which had around 52 employees according to LinkedIn, did not specify how many were affected, but said it plans to share a spreadsheet with information about those who were impacted to help them make connections in new job searches. Polyarc was founded in 2016…

Google LLC today published a paper that indicates a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency. The cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computers were already well-known to researchers. However, it was believed that breaching cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin would require a machine with millions of qubits. Such computers may be decades away. One of the main conclusions of Google’s new paper is that cryptocurrency encryption could potentially be bypassed much sooner. Many digital coins use an encryption method known as ECC, or elliptic curve cryptography, to protect users’ funds. ECC is powered by a mathematical object…

Cloud environments don’t follow the same rules traditional data centers did. Workloads spin up in seconds, containers live and die within a single request cycle, serverless functions execute without a persistent footprint, and infrastructure scales faster than any manual security process can track. The security problem this creates isn’t just about scale. It’s about visibility. If you don’t know what “normal” looks like across your cloud workloads, whether they’re virtual machines, containers, or cloud native applications running across public cloud and private cloud infrastructure, you have no reliable way to detect what’s wrong.That’s the core problem behavioral analysis solves in…

Just how much is AI poised to change our world?Unless you’ve been in hibernation, the flurry of attention surrounding the latest AI models coming out of Silicon Valley has been hard to miss. AI has gone beyond a chatbot merely answering your questions to doing stuff that only human programmers used to be able to do.But we’ve been through these cycles involving tech before. How can we tell what’s actually real and what’s mere hype?To answer this question, I invited Kelsey Piper, one of the best reporters on AI out there. Kelsey is a former colleague here at Vox and…

Forget the 2022 playbook. In 2026, SaaS buyers are “invisible”- researching in dark social and AI engines. Here’s how to stop chasing clicks and start winning. The growth at all costs era of software has officially ended. The SaaSpocalypse is evidence of the changing environment- not mere strategies, the product quality is itself taking a turn for the worse(?). The problem with these changes is that- they are too rapid and inconsistent. It’s making marketers panic and lean towards what they know best: the old playbooks. But the 2022 playbooks are obsolete. Focusing on keyword volume, gated PDFs, and last-click…

For a hobby project built in my spare time to provide a simple community service, Have I Been Pwned sure has, well, “escalated”. Today, we support hundreds of thousands of website visitors each day, tens of millions of API queries, and hundreds of millions of password searches. We’re processing billions of compromised records each year provided by breached companies, white hat researchers, hackers and law enforcement agencies. And it’s used by every conceivable demographic: infosec pros, “mums and dads”, customer support services, and, according to the data, more than half the Fortune 500 who are actively monitoring the exposure of…

New CAD-based renders of the upcoming Google Pixel 11 Pro have surfaced online, offering an early look at the company’s next flagship smartphone. The leaks suggest that Google is focusing on refinement rather than reinvention, with small but meaningful design tweaks and expected hardware upgrades. Familiar design, cleaner execution According to the leaked renders by OnLeaks and Android Headlines, the Pixel 11 Pro largely retains the design language seen in its predecessor. The signature full-width camera bar remains intact, but appears more streamlined with a cleaner, all-black finish. One of the most noticeable changes is the introduction of slimmer display…