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Onlookers gather along the Lake Union waterfront to take in Mark Zuckerberg’s 387-foot superyacht. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Mark Zuckerberg’s 387-foot superyacht arrives in Seattle, cruising through the Ballard Locks and mooring on Lake Union just a short walk from Meta’s engineering center, just as it discloses nearly 1,400 layoffs in the Seattle area, about 20% of its local workforce. We try to wrap our heads around the spectacle, and the timing. Meanwhile, robot pizza startup Picnic flames out and sells its assets to a mystery buyer. We trace the rise and fall…
Engineering software giant Autodesk has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MaintainX, a modern maintenance and operations scaleup, in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.6 billion. The deal, representing the largest acquisition in Autodesk’s history, marks a massive corporate expansion onto the factory floor and the physical infrastructure market. By absorbing MaintainX- a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) tracking over $135 million in annualized recurring revenue, Autodesk establishes a new division, Autodesk Operations Solutions (AOS), designed to bridge the historic chasm between designing physical assets and actually running them. For decades, the life cycle of industrial equipment, buildings, and…
Ravie LakshmananMay 29, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence An unknown threat actor has been observed using a large language model (LLM) agent to conduct post-compromise actions after obtaining initial access following the exploitation of a publicly-accessible Marimo network using a recently disclosed vulnerability. “The attacker compromised an internet-reachable Marimo notebook via CVE-2026-39987, extracted two cloud credentials from the compromised host, replayed them through a fanned-out egress pool to retrieve an SSH private key from AWS Secrets Manager, and used that key to drive eight short SSH sessions against a downstream SSH bastion server,” Sysdig said. “The bastion phase exfiltrated the schema…
The Spanish soccer player posted a bunch of images featuring the mystery product. Lamine Yamal via Instagram Beats has made a tradition of slipping unannounced products to famous athletes and letting a little mystery drive the hype train, and it’s just done it again with a pair of bubblegum pink (perhaps with a dash of lilac?) headphones. Spanish soccer player Lamine Yamal shared a series of pictures and a video on Instagram showing the headphones hanging from his bag and draped around his neck. It’s hard to tell for sure if they’re on-ear or over-ear, but…
Gaming monitors have slowly become one of the most aggressively competitive categories in PC hardware. Over the past few years, brands have raced to push refresh rates higher, improve OLED technology, reduce response times, and deliver increasingly brighter displays. But despite all those upgrades, buyers still usually have to pick one side of the experience. You either buy a super-fast esports monitor with lower resolution or a high-resolution OLED display focused more on cinematic gaming. At Computex 2026, MSI appears to be trying to eliminate that compromise. The company has officially unveiled the MSI MPG OLED 322URDX36, which it describes…
If you’ve bought Lionsgate movies or redeemed codes for them, we’ve got some good news for you: Its vast library is being added to the digital movie locker, Movies Anywhere. That means Lionsgate titles will now sync across any participating digital retailers you’ve linked to your Movies Anywhere account.Lionsgate says that a selection of Lionsgate movies will be eligible on Movies Anywhere beginning in June, with 225 of the studio’s most high-profile films made be available on the service, which is also a retailer. Going forward, around 100 additional films will be added monthly throughout 2026 and early 2027. According…
The 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons has risen to the top so fast that he’s had zero time to process how far he’s come.“It’s been go, go, go,” Parsons tells WIRED. “Even the tiniest bit of a break,” he says, would give him some better perspective on everything that’s happened over the past few years. But for the moment, he’s soaking up the limelight—and thinks it’ll be at least another month before he has the space to reflect on his big break.Backrooms, a moody horror piece that stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, is a cerebral expansion of Parsons’ atmospheric YouTube…
Fewer firms gave salary increases amid geopolitical uncertainty and easing inflation Nominal wages of full-time resident employees grew by 4.9% at a slower pace in 2025 than 2024’s 5.6%, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) reported on Thursday. This comes amid Singapore’s overall inflation dropping sharply from 2.8% in 2024 to 0.7% in 2025, which MOM said could have contributed to reduced upward pressure on firms to raise nominal wages. After adjusting for inflation, real wages actually grew by 4%, up from 3.2% in 2024, indicating that workers’ purchasing power went up. Some 6,236 firms in the private sector with at…
Artificial intelligence is forcing companies to change almost every aspect of their business. From operations to hiring to sales and training, change is happening faster than ever. One aspect of this change that has flown under the radar is the need for companies to rethink their business continuity plans. AI is pressuring enterprises to move beyond traditional ideas of resilience and toward architectures and operating models that assume continuous, systemic disruption — and can keep the business running anyway. For information technology leaders, that means business continuity shifts from a document-and-disaster recovery exercise to an operating discipline. Equinix Inc.’s recent…
Ravie LakshmananMay 30, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), refers to a case of authentication bypass that could be exploited by bad actors to set up VPN connections. “Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect portal and gateway of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software allow the attacker to bypass security restrictions and establish an unauthorized VPN connection,” Palo Alto Networks said in an advisory released on May 13, 2026. The…