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by Todd Bishop on Aug 19, 2026 at 3:27 pmAugust 19, 2026 at 3:27 pm GeekWire Graphic / Qualtrics logo Three months after closing its $6.75 billion purchase of Press Ganey Forsta, Qualtrics is cutting jobs across the combined company — a reduction that the experience-management technology company says reflects duplication between two organizations that were built independently. The cuts are global, including the company’s dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, and its international offices. Qualtrics is not publicly disclosing how many jobs were cut, and did not break out numbers by office, region, or job function. One clue:…
Federal court records show the FBI went beyond simply testing commercial spyware as it considered how the technology could be used in criminal investigations. Those records now expose a gap in a new US court reporting system that will count hacking-based wiretaps but not every stage of government interest in or use of device-hacking tools. Beginning with 2028 activity, the federal judiciary plans to separately track court-authorized interceptions that use spyware or hacking techniques, with the first figures expected in 2029. The FBI’s NSO Group records show why those statistics will still be incomplete: agencies can evaluate tools, draft potential-use…
Small electric vehicle maker Also Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in a Series D round to accelerate its work on autonomous driving. The money will fund several self-driving vehicle formats at once, all of them built on the electric architecture Also already uses in its consumer and commercial products. Chris Yu, the company’s co-founder and president, said congestion and cost per trip are problems “whether a vehicle is driven or autonomous.” Small, well-designed vehicles built for urban and suburban centers were the point of starting Also, he said. Also was spun out as a standalone business from…
Trade events and conferences are packed with fresh perspectives, meaningful conversations, and ideas. But with so much happening at once, the experience can quickly become overwhelming … making it easy to miss in-person connections and creative opportunities.
Drivers may be more distracted on days when a big new album drops. Taner Muhlis Karaguzel/Shutterstock Traffic deaths in the United States jump by 15 percent in the immediate aftermath of a major music album’s release, according to a new study published by Harvard Medical School researchers. The study looked at 233,809 fatal collisions between 2017 and 2022, comparing the incidence rate of car accidents on album release days against the 10 days immediately before and after each release. The researchers cross-referenced public crash data from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) with Spotify’s daily…
Brand sentiment used to be a PR problem. In the age of AI search engines, it comes down to your rankings. Has your brand caught up to that shift yet? Google built the last twenty years of digital marketing around one idea: optimize the page, rank the page, win the traffic. That logic is breaking down- rapidly. Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Gemini, and Claude don’t return ten blue links and let the user decide. They synthesize. They read across thousands of sources, form a view of which brands are credible and relevant, and make a recommendation. That changes everything. Because the…
Key Takeaways Ensure a successful EDR rollout by creating endpoint inventory, preparing the infrastructure, configuring policies, and deploying in stages. Know the characteristics of cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments and understand which ones best meet your security and compliance requirements. Know the real cost of EDR deployment, from licensing, deployment, infrastructure, integration, training, to operations. Track EDR ROI beyond threat prevention, including lower incident costs, more efficient analysts, less downtime, and better compliance. Discover how Fidelis Endpoint® delivers enterprise-level security through ongoing monitoring, automated response, endpoint forensics and integration with the security ecosystem. The number of new threats in the…
Google just pushed the prices higher for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. The hikes weren’t surprising at all, especially considering the rising component costs and the ongoing RAMmageddon. But a new report hints that we might soon see a solution to all of this. According to Nikkei Asia, Google plans to stop producing all Pixel devices in China starting in 2027, shifting manufacturing toward India and Vietnam. The reported move covers Pixel phones, watches, and wireless earbuds as Google continues reducing its reliance on Chinese manufacturing. As always, there’s no guarantee Google will pass any resulting savings along to buyers.…
Between the latest news of inconvenient network outages and rising smartphone costs due to a RAM shortage caused by the AI boom, mobile carriers are vying for your money and business. So which one do your fellow readers recommend? CNET’s People’s Picks is a community awards program that surveys our readers to get their opinions on the tech gadgets and services they use and love the most, like internet service providers, headphones and TVs. The latest People’s Picks awards zoom in on what readers think about their mobile carriers — that includes everything from price to signal reliability and even…
Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim’s Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced during testing. The company said it reported the issue to Microsoft in December 2025 and that patches shipped on August 18, 2026. CoSnitch is tracked as CVE-2026-24301 in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide. The research names Copilot Personal, the consumer assistant hosted at…