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For some reason, September 29 is a popular date for holidays. Happy Goose Day, Poisoned Blackberries Day, and Attend Your Grandchild’s Birthday Day to those who celebrate. But I personally will be celebrating National Coffee Day. (Not to be confused with International Coffee Day, which is the day after tomorrow.)Created by the National Coffee Association around 2009, National Coffee Day used to be known for free and discounted coffee from places like Dunkin’ and Panera, but most big chains this year seem to be going with new releases rather than discounts. (See: Krispy Kreme’s coffee-flavored donuts and Starbucks’ new aerocano.)…
Brian, a middle-aged financial consultant, spends his day sitting in front of three screens. Two of them involve his job. The third features a chatbot, which he has given a woman’s name and frequently uses. Brian spent years on the road for work earlier in his career, has never married, and recently broke up with a woman who said he was emotionally unavailable. What did Brian do, in response? He asked the chatbot if the woman had a point. “It’s an extraordinary moment,” writes MIT Professor Sherry Turkle, who interviewed Brian (not his real name) while conducting her research for her…
Holiday shopping is expected to look much different this year with tighter budgets and higher prices. CNET’s annual holiday shopping survey found that close to three of every four holiday shoppers (73%) plan to buy tech this holiday season, and they expect to spend an average of $808 on tech products and services during that time. But is that enough, given the RAM shortage driving higher everyday costs? CNET’s shopping team has been tracking price increases across tech since mid-2025, and CNET’s director of commerce content, Russell Holly, says even steep discounts aren’t lowering prices as much as before. But…
Ravie LakshmananSep 29, 2026United States Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. “It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters,” the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies said in an X post Monday. Police said the individual is expected to appear before the Rotterdam District Court on September 29, 2026. Although law enforcement officials did not disclose any additional details, independent security journalist Brian Krebs and DataBreaches.Net identified the arrested man as Pepijn van der Stap (aka…
AI agent identity security is testing whether consolidated platforms can protect a growing class of machine identities. Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s acquisition of CyberArk Software Ltd. reflects broader consolidation in the identity security market. Okta Inc. recently added an AI agent runtime gateway and formed the Blueprint Alliance with Amazon Web Services Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Even with those efforts, enterprises remain uncertain about where agent attacks will originate and which security layers should respond, according to Todd Thiemann (pictured), principal analyst for identity and access management and data security at Omdia, a division of Informa TechTarget Inc. “I asked…
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from the Ministry of Manpower. It’s time for another chapter dissecting the latest data published by the Ministry of Manpower. Earlier this month, we looked at the breakdown of earnings by age and industry, on the basis of statistical brackets that Singapore is using to evaluate foreign professionals (PMET) in relation to locals. Besides providing the Top 10%, another set of tables contains data for Top 35% (or little over one-third) of local earners, complete with age and industry breakdown. This means that we know…
Upgrading your home office can feel like going down a rabbit hole. A simple search for a basic new desk can quickly turn into hours down the drain and leave endless tabs open on your computer, with every option blurring together. Uplift has a loyal following for its highly customizable desks, smart (and creative—under-desk hammock, anyone?) accessories, and solid build quality that makes long workdays more manageable.We’ve explored the perks of a standing desk, and the takeaway is clear: even if it won’t magically fix everything, the right standing desk setup can make all the difference in how you work. If you’re ready…
701 N. 34th St. in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, where Outreach plans to move its HQ early next year. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Outreach confirmed plans to move its headquarters from Interbay to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood early next year, joining a campus that Adobe has anchored since the late 1990s. The sales technology company, which was valued at more than $4.4 billion in a 2021 funding round, has grown to about 800 employees from 680 in late 2024. The company will take one floor at Fremont Lake Union Center, a three-building, roughly 424,000-square-foot campus on North 34th Street owned by…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced plans to buy World Labs Inc. for $8.2 billion in stock. The move comes seven months after AMD backed a $1 billion funding round for the startup at a $5 billion valuation. The deal also included the participation of rival Nvidia Corp., which is poised to realize a significant return on investment. AMD expects to close the transaction by year’s end. World Labs was founded in 2024 by renowned artificial intelligence researcher Fei-Fei Li. She is best known as the creator of ImageNet, an early AI training dataset designed for object recognition algorithms. The…
Ravie LakshmananSep 28, 2026Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing a maliciously crafted file. The iPhone maker said the issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. It credited Meta Product Security with discovering and reporting the issue. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely…