The invisible shield: How AI is quietly protecting the software that runs your life

Last week, something alarming happened in the world of software — and almost nobody outside the tech industry noticed. A ...

Why Today’s Most Reliable Platforms Are Built to Expect Failure

A useful way to understand modern platforms is to imagine a global railway network with no central station. Trains are always ...
The Next Web

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical ...
CNBC

How China is getting everyone on OpenClaw, from gearheads to grandmas

China's tech giants and local governments are helping push the adoption of AI tools, including the viral personal digital assistant OpenClaw. The AI agent developed by Austrian developer Peter ...
Wired

Drip Coffee Was My First Taste of Adulthood. The Ratio Four Brewer Offers It Pure

I test a lot of coffee machines. Like, a lot of them. The Ratio Four is the small-batch brewer I use to try new kinds of coffee. Coffee is the original office biohack and the nation’s most popular ...
marktechpost

Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications

Alibaba Tongyi Lab research team released ‘Zvec’, an open source, in-process vector database that targets edge and on-device retrieval workloads. It is positioned as ‘the SQLite of vector databases’ ...
Business Insider

I embedded myself in a vibe coding team at Gemini's AI hackathon in Singapore. Building an app in 7 hours takes real work.

I spent seven hours with a vibe coding team at Google's Gemini 3 hackathon in Singapore. Watching from the sidelines was intense. From prompting and debugging to filming the demo — here's how it all ...
dbta

Digi International Acquires Particle to Reinforce Digi’s Embedded-as-a-Service Offering

Digi International Inc. (Digi), a leading global provider of business and mission-critical Internet of Things (IoT) products, services, and solutions, is acquiring Particle Industries, Inc. (Particle) ...
IJR

How Activists Use Curriculum And ‘Training’ To Embed Leftist Ideology In K–12 Schools

Activist organizations are developing curricula instructing teachers and students to be skeptical toward claims of antisemitism and sympathetic to pro-Palestinian causes, documents show. Two ...
WESH

Sheriff's office employee receives sentence after illegal use of confidential database

HE IS ALSO FACING MULTIPLE CHARGES. A FORMER LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE EMPLOYEE WILL HAVE TO DO 50 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR ILLEGALLY ACCESSING THE AGENCY’S DATABASE, INVESTIGATORS SAY HANNAH ...
WBUR

Evan Wang, this year's National Youth Poet Laureate, wants to use poetry to enact social change

Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Evan Wang, the first young man to be named the National Youth Poet Laureate by the literary group Urban Word. His love for poetry began in his early teens, ...