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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Every time Claude stops in the middle of a task to ask permission to open a file or read an email, I get two choices. I can allow it once, or I can allow it always. I click “allow once” pretty much every time. I understand that “allow always” would make things smoother down the road, but it also opens the door to the kind of mistake you can’t take back, and I’m not ready to hand over that much on faith. Businesses are facing the same decision, just on…

Smartsheet CEO Raj Singh unveils vsActual, an AI product that customers can use without Smartsheet, during his keynote at the company’s Engage conference in Seattle on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Smartsheet’s biggest new product in years doesn’t require Smartsheet. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company unveiled vsActual, as in “plan versus actual,” an AI product that reads a company’s strategy and budgets, tracks the work across tools such as Jira, Workday and Slack, and flags when projects drift off course. It’s the first standalone product under CEO Raj Singh, the Concur co-founder who took over Smartsheet a year ago, and…

Does CrowdStrike think buying high-end security tools counters AI risks? CrowdStrike just dropped nearly $500 million to scoop up two AI security startups- Fiddler AI for about $400 million and Dreadnode for $95 million. Fiddler AI brings deep observability to track agent reasoning, while Dreadnode automates red-teaming to spot prompt injection and jailbreak flaws before code hits production. Alongside these acquisitions, CrowdStrike launched an “AI Kill Switch” within its Falcon platform, helping IT admins instantly sever network access for rogue agents exhibiting risky behavior. Are we building systems faster than we can secure them? Companies rush to deploy agents to…

Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen many instances of people using AI tools, particularly Claude Code, to recompile or clone software. Some have reverse engineered subscription-based apps, such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, to cobble together their own versions. Others have attempted to decompile and recompile video games to get them running on other platforms and in browsers, with varying degrees of success. One of the latest AI game porting efforts involved someone getting Nintendo Switch games to run natively on an Apple TV 4K. Redditor u/FloatingFalafel has released an open-source project called TVPort, a fork of the nxnative…

If you’ve tried buying a Windows laptop recently, you’ve probably noticed just how confusing processor names have become. Between different Intel Core and Core Ultra chips, figuring out which one is actually newer or faster isn’t always straightforward. And judging by the latest leaks, things might get even more complicated next year. Intel is reportedly preparing two new laptop processor families for 2027, called Moon Lake and Wildcat Lake Refresh. According to hardware leaker Jaykihn, Wildcat Lake Refresh could arrive in the second quarter of 2027, while Moon Lake is expected to follow sometime in the fourth quarter. Interestingly, despite…

Amazon’s Kindle e-readers have a whole new look this fall. There are three new Kindle models, gorgeous metallic colors, and several new accessories. The beauty of the metallic options has caught the eye of most of my friends (and even my editor, who is not usually a fan of e-readers), but if there’s one thing you should buy out of all the new Kindle gear, it’s the least expensive offering: the Amazon Kindle Click ($35).The Kindle Click is Amazon’s first Bluetooth Kindle page turner that will pair with its two latest generations of Kindles, from both 2024 and 2026. Many…

It was way back in 1998 when I finished Ocarina of Time. I remember how incredible it all was, not only to play but also to look at. N64 games back then felt stunning — so impressive that I rushed out to make the N64 the first Nintendo home console I ever owned. Those days are gone, and N64 games now look pretty rough to my eyes. But with the $60 Ocarina of Time remake, exclusive to the Switch 2, Nintendo brings some of that magic back again; I’ve never had more fun replaying a game in my life. When…

Most organizations I talk to are not short on detection. They have invested in advanced security tools, and those tools are good at one thing: telling you something happened. Then the real work starts. Someone has to decide what it means, who needs to know, and what to do next. That gap between seeing a threat and acting on it is where security programs succeed or fail, and it is the lens I use for XDR, for AI, and for where the SOC goes from here. XDR isn’t broken. Our rollouts are. Let me start with the verdict I keep…

Traversal Inc., a startup that’s trying to automate site reliability engineering tasks with artificial intelligence agents, seems to be closing in on that goal after raising $120 million in fresh funding, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The newly minted unicorn’s round was led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures, three of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile venture capital firms, whose names should give it the credibility it needs to accelerate its growth plans. Sequoia Capital – another big VC name – also participated in the round, alongside Battery Ventures and Amex Ventures. AI might have made the job of…

Running a modern research laboratory requires more than maintaining sophisticated instruments. Researchers need to complete training, obtain access, schedule and operate equipment, navigate billing, and more. For large, shared facilities, coordinating these activities across hundreds of instruments and thousands of users can be a significant undertaking. As research becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, another challenge is emerging: finding the right capability in the first place.Addressing these challenges was a central theme of the 2026 NEMO User Meeting, hosted by MIT.nano Oct. 5–6. The meeting brought together 65 representatives from 25 laboratories and organizations, including facility directors, laboratory managers, technical staff, software developers,…