Meta Is Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs Soon
Meta announced that Instagram will discontinue end‑to‑end encryption for direct messages on May 8 2026. Users will see an in‑app notice and can download affected chats before the feature is removed. The company cited low opt‑in rates as the reason, directing users to WhatsApp for encrypted messaging. The change marks a shift back to server‑side encryption on Instagram, affecting both personal and business communications.
Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware
Unit 42 has identified a China‑backed espionage campaign, designated CL‑STA‑1087, that has been infiltrating Southeast Asian military organizations since at least 2020. The operation deploys two custom backdoors, AppleChris and MemFun, alongside a credential‑harvesting tool called Getpass, using techniques such...
🔮 The Lantern and the Flame
In this episode, the host explores how pervasive AI tools are reshaping our thinking, distinguishing between helpful cognitive offloading and the dangerous trend of cognitive surrender—uncritical abdication of reasoning. Drawing on research, personal workflow experiments, and references to thinkers like...
Almost Every Browser Uses Chromium - These 5 Don't
The article spotlights five notable non‑Chromium browsers—Firefox, Waterfox, Zen, Mullvad Browser, and Safari—detailing their privacy‑centric features, cross‑platform support, and unique user experiences. It contrasts these alternatives with the dominant Chromium ecosystem, emphasizing open‑source roots and reduced data collection. Each browser...
Automate Ticket Ops: Empower Developers with Platform Tools
Have you ever worked in a company where developers get stucked in “ticket ops” this is meant for platform engineers, where developers need the manual approvals as a platform engineer you will be tasked to develop a system or product...
SSL Converter Bridges ST 2110, Dante
Solid State Logic announced the Net I/O ST 2110 Bridge at the 2026 NAB Show, a 1RU hardware converter that links SMPTE ST 2110 and Dante audio networks. The device supports 256 or 512 channels, offers upgrade paths, built‑in NMOS discovery and connection management, and...
Razer Flexes AI Desktop Companion and Other New Products at GDC
At the Game Developers Conference 2026, Razer showcased a suite of AI‑powered products, headlined by an AI desktop companion designed to streamline gaming workflows. The company also introduced AI‑enhanced peripherals, including a smart mouse and headset, that promise real‑time performance...
ACCESS GPO Announces Preferred Strategic Commercial Agreement to Provide Affera™ Mapping and Ablation System with Sphere-9™ Catheter to Ambulatory Surgery...
ACCESS GPO has signed a multi‑year preferred agreement with Medtronic to supply the Affera™ Mapping and Ablation System, featuring the Sphere‑9™ catheter, to physician‑led ambulatory surgery centers across the United States. The partnership aims to accelerate adoption of pulsed field...
U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets.
U.S. tech giants including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have poured billions into data center projects across the Persian Gulf to support AI development. Iranian drone attacks in early March damaged Amazon’s facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, disrupting services...
Chinese AI Turns Commercial Satellite Data Into Intelligence
Chinese AI Startup Watching US Military Assets in Middle East From Space So are a lot of actors... “The value of MizarVision’s output is not the raw satellite image. Any government can purchase commercial satellite passes. The value is the AI...
TIDAL Adds Direct-to-Fan Album Download Sales: No Subscription Required
TIDAL has launched a Direct‑to‑Fan (D2F) album download feature, allowing independent artists to sell digital albums directly within the app. The service charges a flat 10% platform fee, leaving 90% of sales revenue to the creator after processing costs. It...
New Chip Lets Robots See in 4D by Tracking Distance and Speed Simultaneously
Researchers have created a silicon chip that integrates a 61,952‑pixel focal‑plane array capable of both emitting and receiving FMCW LiDAR signals, delivering 4D imaging that captures distance and speed simultaneously. The prototype generated detailed 3D point clouds at ranges from...
1M Context Is Now Generally Available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Claude announced that Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models now support a full 1 million‑token context window at regular pricing. The pricing remains $5/$25 per million tokens for Opus 4.6 and $3/$15 for Sonnet 4.6, eliminating any long‑context surcharge. Media limits have been expanded sixfold...
Cyberattackers Don't Care About Good Causes
A Dark Reading roundtable highlighted that nonprofit organizations, despite being critical infrastructure, are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals because they store sensitive personal and operational data while operating with limited security budgets. Panelists including Wendy Nather of 1Password and Sightline Security’s...
USBR Crack the Case Challenge
NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation has launched the "Crack the Case" challenge to develop novel subsurface crack detection methods for embankment dams. The three‑phase competition moves teams from concept framing to design validation and finally to real‑world demonstration...
CommonSpirit Health's New Virtual Nursing Model Shows ROI
CommonSpirit Health launched a Virtually Integrated Care (VIC) nursing model that embeds remote nurses into bedside teams across its 158 hospitals. The program, built on proprietary telehealth software, has been deployed on 1,075 beds and aims to reach 3,000 by...
AutoHaul Drives Efficiencies at Rio Tinto in Australia
Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul system now runs up to 53 fully autonomous GoA4 trains, each 240 wagons long, across its 2,000 km Pilbara rail network, moving roughly 326 million tonnes of iron ore per year. The driverless operation, managed from a Perth control...
Poland's Nuclear Research Centre Targeted by Cyberattack
Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) detected and blocked a cyberattack on its IT infrastructure before any damage occurred. The institute’s security systems and rapid response prevented compromise of the MARIA research reactor, which continued operating at full power....
Better Lost $40M. Its CEO Has Never Been Bolder
Better Home & Finance reported a $40 million net loss for Q4, while revenue held steady at $44 million and loan volume surged 56% year‑over‑year to $1.5 billion. The AI‑native lender announced a partnership with a top‑5 non‑bank originator and reaffirmed its goal...
Artemis 2 Set for April Lunar Launch as NASA Navigates Gateway Uncertainty
NASA gave Artemis 2 a tentative go‑ahead for an April 1‑6 launch, with the Space Launch System slated to roll out on March 19 after a successful flight‑readiness review. The crew, including NASA’s Wiseman, Glover, Koch and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, confirmed readiness, while...
The DeepSeek Shock
After two years of a seemingly settled AI hierarchy dominated by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta, Chinese lab DeepSeek abruptly released models that outperformed expectations. The models demonstrated performance comparable to the leading Western firms, and did so within a...
LinkedIn Is the #1 Growth Engine for B2B Founders
I saw this post the other day: “Someone should buy LinkedIn and turn it off.” So. Dumb. If you sell B2B, there is literally no better place to get your business off the ground organically than LinkedIn. Nearly every Founder I've...
Gas in Mexico: Risks and Alternatives for a Sustainable Energy Model
Mexico relies on imported natural gas for more than 70% of its consumption, chiefly via pipelines from Texas. This dependence underpins electricity generation, industrial processes and Pemex operations, but it also exposes the country to supply disruptions, price volatility and...
NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’
Meta has postponed the launch of its next foundational AI model, code‑named Avocado, to at least May after internal benchmarks showed it lagging behind leading rivals such as Google Gemini 3.0, OpenAI and Anthropic. While Avocado outperforms Meta’s prior Llama 4 and...
Spotify Will Let You Edit Your Taste Profile to Control Your Recommendations
Spotify announced a beta feature that lets Premium users edit their Taste Profile, the algorithmic model behind Discover Weekly, Made For You playlists and Wrapped. The rollout begins in New Zealand, displaying listening data across music, podcasts and audiobooks in a...
TfL Selects Direct Solar Power to Help Run the Tube | RailUK
Transport for London (TfL) has appointed SSE Energy Solutions to design and build purpose‑built solar farms that will feed electricity directly into the Tube network via a private‑wire arrangement. The scheme will generate up to 65,000 MWh of zero‑carbon power each...
The AI Race that Apple Is Winning
In this episode of Exponential View, host Azeem Azhar reexamines his view of Apple’s role in the AI race, highlighting a paradox: while Apple appears absent from AI model development and large‑scale data center investment, its hardware—especially high‑spec Mac Minis...
Elsewedy Electric Commissions 349MWp Solar PV Plant in Saudi Arabia
Elsewedy Electric has commissioned the 348.6 MWp El Saad solar PV plant east of Riyadh, marking its first utility‑scale project in the Gulf. The EPC effort wrapped in 16.5 months, well ahead of the original 24‑month timeline, and the project has secured a...
AI Needs Your Context, Not Just Faster Prompts
Most AI advice tells you to move faster, try more tools, learn more prompts I think the real problem is simpler than that: your AI doesn't know you It doesn't know your projects, your standards, or the decisions you've already made Better prompts...
Ketamine Therapy for Chronic Pain and Substance Misuse
Recent peer‑reviewed study of 20 adults with chronic pain and substance misuse found ketamine therapy improved pain, mood, and dependence scores. The integrated treatment was delivered within a coordinated pain program, highlighting benefits of interdisciplinary care. Findings suggest ketamine can...
8x8 Expands General Availability of 8x8 Engage
8x8 announced that its Engage platform is now generally available worldwide across all communication channels. The company is extending advanced customer‑engagement tools beyond traditional contact‑center agents to front‑line teams. Engage runs on the same unified, cloud‑native platform that 8x8 customers...
OpenFold Consortium Announces Major OpenFold3 Update and Public Release of Training Data for Reproducible Biomolecular AI
The OpenFold Consortium unveiled OpenFold3’s major update, releasing the full training datasets, model weights, code, and evaluation scripts via AWS’s Registry of Open Data. The open‑source co‑folding system now includes a dedicated portal with onboarding documentation and a public support...
The Four Pillars of AI-Driven CX: Turning Technology Into Trust
Customer expectations are outpacing companies’ ability to adapt, with 70% of executives reporting a widening gap. AI alone isn’t enough; firms must embed it across four pillars—assisted agents, intelligent self‑service, operational automation, and adaptive AI orchestration—to turn CX into a...
CRT 2026: Key Takeaways for Interventional Cardiologists
The Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) 2026 meeting showcased a suite of late‑breaking interventional cardiology studies, ranging from long‑term TAVR versus SAVR outcomes to novel radiation‑shielding devices. A seven‑year PARTNER 3 substudy found comparable health‑status results for low‑risk patients after TAVR and...
Money Raised by Biopharma
Researchers at INSERM uncovered hypothalamic tanycytes as a previously unknown tau‑clearing pathway, opening fresh therapeutic avenues for Alzheimer’s and related tauopathies. Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) announced the synthesis and pre‑clinical testing of novel PET tracers that bind α‑synuclein, aiming...
Solving the Heat Problems: How Silicon Photonics Is Redefining Thermal Efficiency in Data Centers
AI-driven compute density is straining data‑center cooling as data movement generates most heat. Traditional copper interconnects add resistive losses, forcing energy‑intensive air cooling. Silicon photonics replaces electrical links with optical ones, slashing energy‑per‑bit and thermal output. Recent heterogeneously integrated photonic...
How to Stop Social Media Platforms From Tracking You When You Share Posts
When users share posts on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and similar platforms, a tracking parameter is appended to the URL (e.g., "?igsh=..."). This identifier lets the platform know who originally shared the link, feeding data into ad‑targeting algorithms and potentially exposing...
Big Scores Mislead: Growth and Margin Matter
$NBIS has an R40 score of 445. $CRWV has an R40 score of 228. Higher is better, right? Not always. $CRWV's 228 = 168% growth + 60% margin. Both legs working. $NBIS's 445 = 457% growth + negative margin. One leg. The other is dragging...
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giving $5k grants for NYC/BOS folks hosting events on AI agents / hackathons / etc for Tech Week in May/June:
Personalized Emails Deliver 4X Revenue Boost Over Blasts
Pura Vida got a 4X lift in email revenue by sending personalised emails based on customer history instead of generic blasts. Revenue grew 50% year-over-year. Meanwhile you're blasting your whole list with the same email. That's the gap.
Moonwalkers Aero Converts Every Step Into Energy
Moonwalkers Aero: Turn Every Step into a Power Move via @WevolverApp #Technology #Innovation #EmergingTech #TechForGood https://t.co/kqVaHnVjxo
Alfa Laval Launches South Korea’s First Large‑scale Liquid‑air Storage
Alfa Laval to build South Korea’s first large-scale liquid air storage system #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/ZAykglkWpQ
ElevenLabs' Flows Unifies All Creative Media Tools
Honest take: ElevenLabs just killed every creative tool you're using. It's called Flows and it chains image, video, voice, music, and SFX into one visual pipeline. No tool-switching. No re-exports. No rebuilding from scratch. Here's how with real examples: https://t.co/4VY9L95RSD
Windows 11 Setup Adds Custom User Folder Naming
Microsoft will soon let you pick a custom name for your user folder during the Windows 11 setup 🙏 https://t.co/ZcLrnQKTqL https://t.co/5TZO36bjB0
How to Critically Evaluate Bold AI Announcements
Wading Through AI episode 2 is now up! In it, @DemetriSpanos and I discuss the recent Anthropic announcement about building a C compiler with "parallel Claudes", and how to properly assess AI announcements in general. https://t.co/OkHBjvRaqR
Space Community Unites Behind NASA Authorization Act
Senate Commerce "WTAS" (What They are Saying) press release about the broad support in the space community for the NASA authorization act. https://t.co/6F7LmDkbDe
AI Governance Buzz Grows, Actual Impact Shrinks
AI Governance mentions up 53% but real influence dropped 22%. More people talking about it. Fewer organizations actually building it. Conference topic, not boardroom priority. That divergence tells you everything.
Waymo Buses Double School Bus Passes Despite Superior Safety
TBH, the fact that Waymos pass school buses 2x as often as human drivers really surprised me given how much better/safer they are for every other important category. Seems like something @Waymo should fix ASAP.
French Engineers Launch Ultra-Stable Drone for Precise Flight
French Engineers Unveil Ultra-Stable #Drone System Redefining Aerial Precision by @tweetciiiim #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/IY8Yj4jYwY
LLMs Aid Top Mathematicians but Remain Unreliable
LLMs are amazing. In math, they're clearly becoming useful to top mathematicians. They also struggle with reliability and not knowing what they don't know.
