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From left: Allen School Director Magdalena Balazinska, alumni award recipients David Dawson and Nodira Khoussainova, and Allen School Vice Director Dan Grossman. (UW Photo / Matt Hagen) Two University of Washington alumni who built companies out of everyday frustrations — hard-to-recycle household waste and the struggle to focus while working alone — have been recognized with the Allen School’s 2026 Alumni Impact Awards. David Dawson, co-founder of Ridwell, and Nodira Khoussainova, co-founder of Focused Space, received the award at the Allen School’s graduation celebration on June 12. The goal is not only to recognize accomplished alumni but to “show all…
Step inside an enterprise server room during a major localized outage, and you will see the same recurring theater. The applications are down, the end users are panicking, and the DevOps, security, and CI/CD teams are locked in a room, aggressively pointing fingers at the infrastructure engineers. Yet, when technology providers step up to market solutions to this exact chaos, they completely lose their footing. They treat marketing as an exercise in cosmetic vanity. They chase abstract indicators-brand impressions, social interactions, and gated whitepaper downloads-while managing surface-level compliance. Executive leadership watches capital pour out of the organization and sees an…
Ravie LakshmananJun 16, 2026Malware / Cyber Attack The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. “The attack email contained a message impersonating an MS account security alert,” the Genians Security Center (GSC) said. “It was designed to create concern over possible account compromise and OTP abuse, thereby inducing the recipient to execute the attachment.” “The email body instructed the recipient to refer to the attached advisory. However, the actual attachment was not an HWP [Hangul Word Processor] document, but a ZIP…
A new, bipartisan idea is taking Washington by storm: collective ownership of the means of production.Last Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he would soon be meeting with the executives of top AI companies to discuss a financial “partnership.”“There are concepts where pieces [of these companies] could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies,” Trump said. “And by doing that, they’re going to like it better.”President Donald Trump says the government may take ownership stakes in major AI companies and share the returns with the public — an idea pitched…
Google has been slowly phasing out Manifest V2, the older framework that powers many Chrome extensions, since October 2024. For most users, ad blockers like uBlock Origin stopped working by default well over a year ago. Power users found technical workarounds that kept them alive a little longer, but Chrome’s next update removes the last of those loopholes for good. The last flag falls A recent Chromium code commit, spotted by CyberNews (via 9to5Google), removes the kExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag, which developers had been using as a backdoor to keep Manifest V2-based extensions running in Chrome. Google describes the flag as “dead…
Nintendo is facing a potential incident after a threat actor claimed to have stolen nearly a decade’s worth of internal corporate data and demanded a $2 million ransom to prevent the information from being released publicly. While the gaming giant has not confirmed the alleged breach, Cybernews researchers reviewing samples of the leaked data say portions of the material appear credible. “The sample contains HR data, such as pulse surveys and questionnaires about how employees are feeling at work,” researchers noted after examining files published by the threat actor. Key takeaway from the breach A threat actor known as ShadowByte$…
Marketers, take note: New research using 2.7 million data points from the 2026 Winter Olympics revealed how AI systems form and preserve narratives about brands, athletes, and organizations.
Xbox is preparing to shut down or sell at least three of its studios — Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion Games — according to reports from The Verge and Bloomberg on Monday. Ninja Theory employees were informed on Monday that the studio would be closing, according to The Verge, but the team is attempting to find a buyer that can keep them operational. Ninja Theory is the studio behind the Hellblade series and it was featured in the recent Xbox Summer Game Fest showcase, revealing a new entry due in 2027. Double Fine is the legendary studio behind the Psychonauts…
Meta did an “atrocious” job of rolling out a new artificial intelligence division and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and even snacks, a top executive told employees on Monday in an internal post seen by WIRED.The comments made by Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, follow reporting by WIRED last week that revealed widespread dissatisfaction within the Applied AI engineering unit. Meta formed the division of about 6,500 engineers and product managers in March to work on projects aimed at improving the company’s generative AI models. But what workers described as…
Gigamon Inc. today said it has integrated its network telemetry with Zscaler Inc.’s zero-trust access service, a move meant to show security teams what users do once they’re inside a private application rather than just who let them in. The tie-up connects Zscaler Private Access with Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence, part of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. Zscaler Private Access grants access to a given application based on identity and policy. Users never land on the corporate network. What the service does not track is the behavior that follows, and that’s the gap Gigamon is meant to fill. The problem…