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Some are worried about their employees, while others lament an early closure More than 50 tenants at the Punggol East Container Park are packing their bags by the end of Oct as the land is returned to the government. The beloved hangout spot, which houses an eclectic mix of restaurants, bars, sports facilities and even a prawning pond, is operated by social enterprise City Sprouts. According to Channel News Asia (CNA), tenants were upset by the news, with some worried about their employees and others lamenting an early closure. The container park will be handed back to the Singapore Land…

Meta Platforms Inc. says it has more or less caught up with the biggest artificial intelligence labs with the release of its most powerful large language model so far, Muse Spark 1.3. The company said in a blog post today that the new model can be accessed by developers willing to pay for it through its application programming interface. It’s also going to be rolled out to users of Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, as well as the Meta AI application, in the coming days. In an interview with Bloomberg, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said Muse…

Teachally founder Daniel Bernstein is also known in Seattle tech as the founder of Sandlot Games. Daniel Bernstein spent much of the past decade running sale processes for other people’s software companies. Then he ran one for his own, and it just resulted in a deal with McGraw Hill. The education publishing giant on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Teachally, a small startup led by Bernstein in Bothell, Wash., that uses AI to help teachers build and customize lessons, assignments and assessments aligned to state standards. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The deal has closed, and all five employees have joined…

OpenAI is preparing to roll out Astra, its first model to hit a “Critical” cyber threat tier. Here is what its autonomous hacking skills mean for security teams. OpenAI has a powerful new model waiting in the wings, and it comes with serious hacking capabilities. Meet Astra. This is the company’s first model to officially reach the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold under its internal Preparedness Framework. Astra didn’t merely solve routine code puzzles during internal benchmarks. It independently uncovered unknown zero-day vulnerabilities, escaped sandbox environments, and built full exploit chains across hardened operating systems- all with minimal human guidance and surprisingly…

The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) during their formative years enabled them to not only close the gap between education and employment, but also to generate ideas promising to business impact. Despite pursuing varied careers in quantum machine learning, reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence agents,and trustworthy and fair AI, respectively, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Zhang-Wei Hong PhD ’25, and Irene Ko…

For years, parents across the country have been calling on Congress to do something about social media’s harmful effects on children. And typically, when something does happen, it follows a familiar pattern.The billionaire tech CEOs are summoned to Congress. The grieving parents of children who have self-harmed bring old photos of their children, some of whom are now deceased, and relive their experiences. Lawmakers confront the tech company leaders with horrific stories of exploitation, eating disorders, drug overdoses, and suicide. The CEOs apologize. They promise to do better and point to their latest parental controls. Congress introduces child-safety bills. And…

Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program. “The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders (like governments, healthcare providers, and telecommunications services) early access to advanced models that help them build better defenses, before new threats arrive,” Google said. “So defenders have an early advantage, to help them protect vital infrastructure – which in turn protects people who rely on those systems.” The tech giant said it’s currently working with over 650 partners…

Creating a marketing graphic or editing a PDF is now as easy as sending a Slack message. Starting today, Adobe for Slack lets you turn everyday conversations, shared files, and project briefs into polished images, videos, and documents, without leaving your Slack workspace. Slack can now create Adobe content with simple prompts Everything runs through Slackbot, Slack’s built-in AI assistant. Tell it what you’re after, like turning a marketing thread into a poster, and it figures out which Adobe tool needs to handle the job. That could be Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, or any of the other 70-plus…

You’ve got a great idea for a blog or LinkedIn article, if only your internal subject matter expert can find time for an interview.

The password notebook is making an unlikely comeback, and this time security professionals have more reason to take the idea seriously. The trigger is simple: Australia Post is selling paper notebooks designed specifically for usernames and passwords, reviving a surprisingly serious debate over whether offline credential storage still has a place in modern cybersecurity. The use of such small paper books has long been discouraged in favor of digital password managers. Yet the product, posted by a Reddit user and currently selling for $4.90 or $5.90 depending on size, has prompted security veterans and online users to revisit whether that…