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United States soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke has been arrested and charged for placing bets on prediction marketplace Polymarket using classified information he had access to related to the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. The US Army Special Forces master sergeant, who was directly involved with the planning and execution of the operation, allegedly made $409,881 in profits.According to the Department of Justice, Van Dyke created a Polymarket account around December 26, 2025 and made 13 bets related to Maduro from December 27 to January 2. He took the “Yes” position on several Polymarket wagers, including “US Forces…

“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.”— William GibsonHello Cyber Builders 🖖Anthropic made headlines last week. I paused before writing because I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Was this marketing? Where’s the evidence this is a real breakthrough?Anthropic announced Mythos, a model built for cybersecurity, and kicked off Project Glasswing: an industry-wide push to use it to defend critical infrastructure.The framing was striking.Anthropic essentially said:“We didn’t expect this level of capability. It may change the threat landscape.”It’s a bold claim, and plenty of people accepted it at face value. I want to challenge the story, not the tech.If…

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more than $400,000 in profits on Polymarket trades. A grand jury indicted him on five counts, including multiple violations of the Commodity Exchange Act.Van Dyke is the first person to be charged with insider trading on a prediction market in the United States. Lawmakers have been voicing concerns for months about the high likelihood that politicians and public servants could use nonpublic…

It has happened in AI, and it did not even whisper. No, it did not just enhance AI. Now it is going to try to take your job, not sort of, but really.That has been the plan all along: to bring “AI agents” into the company as its most important corporate tool, tools to not just respond to your questions but to perform actions. Not just to chat like a robot, but to plan actions, to take action, to use tools, to complete actions. It is almost like a colleague!Now, hold on for a moment as I give it some…

The upgrade path for Tesla owners who purchased full self-driving software but have older cars is proving to be messy and complicated. To take full advantage of the software package that some Tesla owners paid up to $15,000 for, some EV owners will need newer hardware that cannot be easily added. That could mean a trade-in or a computer and camera replacement at new microfactories across the country, according to Elon Musk.Musk discussed the options during the Tesla Q1 2026 earnings call, telling investors that because of limitations in the hardware for Tesla vehicles labeled HW3 (Hardware 3), those who bought FSD…

Supply chain attacks accounted for 30% of breaches in the 2025 Verizon DBIR3, double the prior year. The attack model is reliable: compromise a software vendor, IT service provider, or managed security service, then use that trusted relationship to reach multiple downstream organizations simultaneously, often before anyone realizes a compromise has occurred. Hybrid cloud environments are particularly exposed because vendor and partner connections are common, and those connections often carry broader access permissions than a strict least-privilege model would grant.The IBM 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report10, covering incidents from March 2024 through February 2025, reported average US breach…

Enterprise AI ambitions are stalling not because models are hard to build, but because the data foundations underneath them were never designed to support intelligent workloads at scale — and a unified data lakehouse architecture might be the solution. The problem is especially acute for legacy organizations carrying decades of accumulated data infrastructure built in silos. As companies scramble to prepare their data estates for agentic AI, those that fail to address technical debt at the data layer risk building AI on a foundation that will buckle under real production pressure, according to Debopriyo Nag (pictured, right), global lead for…

Its expansion comes despite reporting losses here in 2024 Chinese coffee brand Luckin Coffee has been in Singapore for only three years, but it has established a strong foothold in the city-state. It expanded by 30 stores over the past year, bringing its total number of outlets here to 81.  This is despite offering its coffee at heavily discounted prices and reporting losses amounting to RMB¥47 million (S$8.8 million) in Singapore in 2024, all the more notable in the context of Singapore’s notoriously tough F&B landscape. What, then, goes into the Chinese brand’s playbook for expanding in such a challenging…

Meta is recording every employee’s keystroke to train its AI. Is this frontier research or just high-tech surveillance? The digital sweatshop has arrived. Think again if you thought corporate surveillance peaked with return-to-office mandates. Meta just took the Big Brother trope and turned it into a training manual. According to a new Reuters report, Meta is launching the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), a program that installs software on U.S. employees’ computers to record every mouse movement, keystroke, and click. The goal? To feed that digital exhaust into their next generation of AI agents. Meta is asking its employees to help…

The OnePlus 16 could end up being one of the more ridiculous display upgrades in the next flagship cycle. A fresh leak has revealed some impressive display specs of the brand’s next top model. But the number that really jumps off the page is the refresh rate. Chinese tipster DigitalChatStation claims 185Hz is the minimum target, though OnePlus is reportedly testing support up to 240Hz. Why OnePlus 16’s display could be its main attraction Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends The upcoming OnePlus flagship smartphone will apparently sport a tall 6.78-inch flat BOE OLED display with a 1.5K resolution and LTPO…