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F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou at the company’s Seattle headquarters for the GeekWire Podcast. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) F5 turns 30 years old this year, and the Seattle company has reinvented itself repeatedly to get here — starting, improbably, as a group of University of Washington students trying to build online video games. On this week’s GeekWire Podcast, recorded on location at F5 Tower, the company’s chairman, president and CEO François Locoh-Donou joins us to trace that journey, from a 1990s internet load-balancing startup to a company that helps keep many of the world’s biggest apps running and secure. Today…

Channel partner marketing sounds like a growth lever. Most of the time, it’s a content graveyard and a co-branded PDF nobody asked for. Here’s what actually works. Key Takeaways Channel partner marketing is a relationship problem. Partner portals and co-branded content fail because they’re built for the vendor’s convenience, not the partner’s workflow. MDF produces results only when the partner already has a demand generation motion to accelerate. Segmenting the partner base by capability and strategic alignment is what separates programs that compound from ones that spread resources thin across a long tail of partners who will never generate meaningful…

The lawsuit dates back to a deadly incident in Arizona in 2023. Sjoerd Van Der Wal/Getty Images Tesla has settled another lawsuit that involves a death related to one of its driver assistance systems. As first reported by Bloomberg, the lawsuit, which revolves around the death of 71-year-old Johna Story in Arizona, has been resolved but terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed. Story’s family filed the lawsuit against Tesla in 2023, following the incident where the grandmother stepped out of her car to direct traffic around a separate collision that was caused by sun glare. Story was…

Microsoft is testing a new accessibility feature for Windows 11 called Screen Tint, and it could be one of those small additions that make a surprisingly big difference. Instead of changing your display’s color temperature like Night Light, Screen Tint applies a customizable color overlay across the entire screen, making bright displays easier on the eyes during long work or gaming sessions. A softer screen for tired eyes Available in the latest Windows Insider preview build v29617.1000, Screen Tint lets users choose from six preset colors or create their own custom tint while adjusting its intensity with a dedicated slider.…

OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part of an ongoing engagement with the U.S. government. While Sol is the latest flagship model and the most powerful, Terra strikes a balance between efficiency and power, and Luna is fine-tuned for speed and affordability. “GPT‑5.6 Sol launches with our most robust safety stack to date. We strengthened protections for higher-risk activity, sensitive cyber requests, and repeated misuse, and spent multiple weeks finding weaknesses, pressure-testing our system, and hardening it against real-world attacks,” OpenAI said.…

Now that Amazon Prime Day is over, it’s time to start gearing up for Fourth of July sales. Most large retailers pivoted their summer-sale timing to compete head-on with Amazon’s accelerated schedule, but you can still snag great deals this July 4th, particularly in active and outdoorsy categories.REI has the hottest sale of the weekend as far as the WIRED Reviews team is concerned, but there are notable midsummer sales on other sites we shop, like Backcountry, Home Depot, and Lululemon. Also, make sure you don’t sleep on Duer.The outdoorsy Canadian clothing brand makes highly functional classics that subtly incorporate…

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is one of the best phones you can buy in 2026, and if you already own one, I have some positive news for you: Your phone can take better photos than it does right now.Samsung added a larger aperture (on two sensors) and upgraded its camera processing to fare better against Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro this year. However, if you haven’t played around with the settings, you aren’t making the most of Samsung’s new upgrades.The Galaxy S26 Ultra has a versatile camera system, but the default settings might not work for everyone. They didn’t for…

Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you’re asked to help a new trainee learn the basics of their job. The catch: It’s a robot. To teach them, you might want to play a game of “show and tell” — that is, physically showing how to do something a few different ways, while also explaining what you’re doing.Let’s say you asked the robot to place some coffee on your desk without disturbing you during a Zoom call. You’ll prefer that the robot doesn’t get too close to you and the laptop so that it…

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. is joining an initiative that IBM Corp. and its Red Hat unit launched in May to fix open-source software vulnerabilities. The companies announced the move today. U.K.-based Deloitte launched in the middle of the 18th century as an accounting firm. Today, it’s the world’s largest provider of professional services with $70.5 billion in revenue as of fiscal 2025. The company has a sizable cybersecurity business that helps enterprises scan their infrastructure for vulnerabilities, detect breaches and perform related tasks. The open-source security initiative at the center of today’s partnership is called Lightwell. IBM and Red Hat…

Worker engagement in Singapore has stagnated since 2019 Ever taken public transport during the weekday morning rush? Packed buses and trains. Corporate uniforms. Eyes glued to phones or staring blankly ahead. Lanyards around necks, coffee in hand, everyone hurrying somewhere that seems incredibly important. However, according to a new report released last week, most of them would rather be anywhere else. The inaugural Singapore Workplace Report 2026, produced by workplace consulting firm Gallup and the Singapore Institute of Directors, found that only 14% of Singapore’s workforce is actually engaged at work. In other words, 86 out of every 100 workers…