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A couple months ago, I made the mistake of scratching my eyeball, which meant I couldn’t wear my contact lenses while it healed. This would’ve been fine, if I had not also accidentally broken my only pair of glasses from a treadmill incident (yes, it was very embarrassing). So as is expected of someone with over -400 and -500 vision, I panicked. It was mid-month and prescription glasses are expensive, especially with the additional frills that I need, like lens features for astigmatism and anti-blue light. I can’t be going to work “blind.” Then my guardian angel (Claudia) introduced me…

Fidelis Elevate brings together multiple threat detection methods. Fidelis Network uses behavioral machine learning and network traffic analysis to identify deviations from normal activity, including unusual internal communication, unexpected data movement, and suspicious protocol behavior. Fidelis Elevate’s Active Threat Detection complements these capabilities by correlating signals from network, endpoint, deception, and other supported security sources to provide broader context for investigation and response.

The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key indicator to watch is productive utilization by enterprise customers. Specifically, we said at the time, if infrastructure supply catches up before productive monetization materializes, the risk of a bubble popping increases to what we felt were dangerous levels. We forecast that the supply constraints and healthy capital funding appetites at that time could provide conditions for a soft landing. And we pegged 2029 as the…

Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its workforce, including some execs. Unlike the retirement program Microsoft offered in the spring, this one has no age or tenure requirement, and business leaders decide whether their groups take part. On this week’s GeekWire Podcast, we discuss what’s behind the offer, why buyout stories draw so much interest from readers, and how it fits with a blockbuster quarter for Microsoft. That includes $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI, more than Microsoft made from Xbox or Bing. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy predicts that AWS and Amazon’s stores business…

Hackers just pulled off a $6.3B heist on Binance. Reliance on centralized crypto giants and DevOps vulnerabilities threatens industry trust. Hackers just drained an unprecedented $6.3 billion from Binance, sending shockwaves through the global cryptocurrency market. Attackers breached a DevOps engineer’s laptop to manipulate internal signing infrastructure, exploiting automated sweeper contracts across ten blockchains in a matter of minutes. North Korea’s notorious state-backed hacker groups bear primary suspicion for the breach. Binance immediately halted deposits and withdrawals, promising to cover every dollar using company reserves and its Secure Asset Fund. Industry partners and stablecoin issuers have frozen nearly $3 billion…

A complaint I hear a lot from my millennial peers is that our parents didn’t teach us enough about money. I can say that personal finance wasn’t dinner table conversation in my house, and even as I went off to college and started fending for myself, it was almost a taboo subject. When it came to money, people either had it or they didn’t, and you definitely didn’t talk about it.Maybe this is why the average American isn’t exactly fluent in personal finance, and the situation is getting worse. Americans can only answer about 50 percent of basic questions about…

WhatsApp is introducing four new features to group conversations, aimed at making it easier for users to manage important messages and catch up on conversations they may have missed. The latest additions include Group Status, permanent message pinning, a dedicated filter for mentions and replies, and the ability to share recent message history even after someone has joined a group. The updates address a common problem with busy WhatsApp groups, where conversations can accumulate hundreds of messages within a few hours, making it difficult to find important information or keep track of messages that actually need your attention. Group Status…

People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S. midterm elections, what role are AI platforms playing? Could an AI chatbot sway a voter to switch parties or re-examine their political beliefs? MIT researchers have built a new dashboard, called the LLM Election Observatory, to examine, in real-time, how popular AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 midterm elections. The team behind the dashboard — led by Professor Adam Berinsky, Assistant Professor Chara Podimata, and Professor Charles Stewart III — has extensive experience studying voting and election administration, AI and misinformation,…

Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here.New research shared exclusively with Kernel Panic shows that hackers have started adding AI functionality into a new strain of infostealer malware, making it possible for the system to automatically profile victims and quickly surface the highest value targets and their information. Dubbed “Volta-Autodoxer” because of how the malware refers to itself internally, the finding by Cisco Talos researchers sheds light on the ways that…

The new robots.txt directive will prevent the companies from scraping content for generative AI training. tadamichi/Shutterstock Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft have committed to honoring a new robots.txt directive, which will allow publishers to specify their preferences when it comes to the scraping of their content for generative AI training. The companies have decided to adopt a proposal under consideration at IETF, the open standards organization for the internet, written by Anthropic technical lead for standards Kevin Kelley.  As OpenAI and Google explained in their announcements, website owners currently have to identify individual crawlers and add separate rules for…