Smashing Security Podcast #463: This AI Company Leaked Its Own Code. It’s Also Built Something Terrifying
In the Smashing Security #463 episode, host Graham Cluley and guest Tanya Janca discuss Anthropic’s accidental leak of the Claude Code CLI source via a mis‑published source‑map and the company’s new AI model, Mythos, which can autonomously discover and chain vulnerabilities. They also explore how compromised developer credentials can hijack CI/CD pipelines, enabling silent supply‑chain attacks, and cite the low‑cost Venice flood‑defense hack as a warning that critical infrastructure is increasingly exposed. Janca highlights her new DevSecStation mini‑podcast aimed at teaching developers secure coding practices in an AI‑driven world.
PROPTECH-X : Is Trying to Fix ESG in Commercial Real Estate Just a Waste of Energy?
UK commercial real estate faces mounting ESG pressure as regulators and capital markets demand carbon‑zero performance. While proptech promises data‑driven measurement and optimisation, the sector is drowning in dashboards with little actual emissions reduction—emissions have risen 6% since 1990. Deep...
Assessing the State of AI Adoption Across the Federal Government
Three consecutive U.S. administrations have placed AI adoption at the top of the federal agenda, most recently through the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan. Recent inventories show a rapid acceleration of AI projects between 2023 and 2025, yet usage remains...
The FTC Ordered WPP, Publicis, and Dentsu to Stop Coordinating on Brand Safety Standards It Says Led to a Boycott...
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by several states, issued a consent order prohibiting WPP, Publicis and Dentsu from coordinating brand‑safety standards that diverted advertising spend from conservative media. The action follows a similar order on Omnicom tied to its $13.5 billion...
OpenAI Is Moving Toward Click-Based and Conversion-Focused ChatGPT Ad Pricing as Its Early Ad Pilot Struggles to Gain Traction
OpenAI announced it will switch its ChatGPT ad pilot to cost‑per‑click (CPC) pricing within days and begin testing conversion‑focused campaigns. The early experiment has lagged, with advertisers hesitant to exceed modest test budgets due to limited measurement tools and low...
Quantum Algorithm Cracks Massive Simulation Barrier, Boosts Materials Discovery
Researchers at Aalto University have demonstrated a quantum‑inspired tensor‑network algorithm that can simulate a quasicrystal with over 268 million sites in seconds, a task previously requiring quadrillion‑scale computations. The method translates complex material structures into the language of quantum computers, delivering...
What an eCommerce Solution Needs to Compete in 2026
The article argues that the definition of an eCommerce solution must expand beyond a simple storefront to accommodate AI‑driven workflows, B2B complexities, and tighter marketing integration. Recent DHL and NVIDIA studies show that 70‑90% of shoppers and retailers now expect...
🧭 I Built a Tool to Restore Clarity. It's Free. It Takes 90 Seconds.
An AI‑generated web app called SQ Decision Navigator launches as a free, no‑login tool that promises to turn decision fatigue into clarity in under 90 seconds. Built on the Lovable low‑code platform, the app guides users through a four‑step framework—Define,...
Stop Fixing the Resume. Fix LinkedIn.
The post argues that senior‑level executives should stop polishing resumes and focus on LinkedIn optimization, because the $21 billion executive‑search industry sources candidates exclusively through LinkedIn Recruiter. It explains that retained search firms never see resumes; they rank profiles by title,...
Inside an 'AI-Native Law Firm' Started by Cooley, Fenwick and Thomson Reuters Veterans
Javed Qadrud‑Din, a former Cooley, Fenwick and Thomson Reuters executive, has launched an AI‑native law firm that embeds generative AI into every client service and internal workflow. The firm’s technology stack combines proprietary large‑language models with Thomson Reuters legal data...
Linnworks to Host Meet the Marketplace 2026, Bringing Together Amazon, TikTok Shop, SHEIN and More
Linnworks is hosting a free half‑day virtual event, Meet the Marketplace 2026, on April 23, featuring marketplace teams from Amazon, TikTok Shop, SHEIN, Temu, eBay and others. The program targets multi‑channel sellers already active on one or two platforms and delivers vertical‑specific...
11 Undervalued Quantum Computing Stocks to Invest In
The article spotlights eleven publicly traded quantum‑computing stocks that trade at forward P/E multiples below 15, suggesting they are undervalued relative to the sector’s long‑term potential. It explains how companies such as Accenture and NXP are forging partnerships that embed...
5 Undervalued Quantum Computing Stocks to Invest In
NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) announced a strategic collaboration with Nutanix to integrate its ONTAP data‑management platform into the Nutanix Cloud Platform, enhancing hybrid and multicloud capabilities for enterprises. The company also partnered with Elastio to embed ransomware detection and recovery assurance into...
WP Engine Survey Finds 72% of Digital Agencies Have Already Adjusted Their Development Practices to Build AI-Friendly Websites
A WP Engine survey of 214 web‑agency professionals shows 72% have already tweaked development and design workflows to accommodate AI agents alongside human visitors. Sixty‑three percent are actively spending on AI tools and platforms, signaling a rapid pivot toward what...
FORTNA Adds Jacobi Robotics’ Automated Palletizer to Its Portfolio
FORTNA announced a strategic partnership with Jacobi Robotics at MODEX 2026, adding the AI‑driven OmniPalletizer to its automation portfolio. The OmniPalletizer can create stable, rule‑compliant pallets from mixed‑case shipments without requiring upstream sequencing hardware or major facility redesign. By integrating...
“‘Someone Is Consuming E-Cat Energy." If True, This Changes Everything.
Andrea Rossi’s latest statements suggest the E‑Cat NGU has moved beyond a lab prototype to a modular system capable of producing heat and electricity and may already be supplying energy to external users. The architecture is described as scalable, with...
Karpathy’s AI Second Brain: A Guide to Building Your Own
Andrej Karpathy proposes an "AI second brain" that stores raw research files, AI‑generated markdown wiki pages, and output artifacts in a unified folder structure. A single instruction file guides a large language model to continuously organize, link, and summarize the...
Google Launches a Native Gemini App for Mac with a Quick-Access Shortcut, Screen Sharing, and Image and Video Generation
Google unveiled a native Gemini app for macOS 15 and newer, accessible via an Option + Space shortcut that summons the AI assistant from any screen. The app lets users share their screen for contextual help and pull in local files without...
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Lucie Fortier, head of ICE MLS Solutions, argues that the U.S. Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is the silent engine behind every PropTech, AI, and portal application. While the world admires the MLS’s breadth and real‑time accuracy, many stakeholders take its...
These iPhone Fold Design Mockups Might Give Us Our Best Look at Apple's Foldable Yet
Graphics designer kirdercee posted high‑resolution mockups of Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold, offering the clearest visual of the device yet. The renders depict a passport‑style chassis with a 7.8‑inch foldable screen that appears crease‑free, a sizable rear‑camera bump, Touch ID on the...
Angelini Technology Acquires Minority Stake in Lab0
Angelini Technologies has taken a minority equity position in U.S. robotics startup Lab0, the maker of the RoboGlide system that automates container loading and unloading. The investment is intended to accelerate Lab0’s move from prototype to commercial scale and may...
TMTB: Nvidia's CEO Jensen on Dwarkesh Podcast - Key Quotes (NVDA)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the Dwarkesh podcast that the company’s 70% gross margin and fixed‑price strategy give it a pricing advantage over competing ASICs. He argued Nvidia’s performance‑to‑cost (TCO) ratio is unmatched, citing its token‑per‑watt efficiency and annual generational...
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[Podcast] IP Networking in Deep Space
Marc Blanchet of Viagenie discussed extending Internet Protocol beyond low‑Earth orbit, targeting the Moon, asteroid belt and interplanetary missions. Using Linux TUN, TC‑NETEM and 64‑bit delay modeling, his team can simulate round‑trip times of hours, revealing TCP’s limitations in deep‑space environments....
Rapidus: Will It Succeed Or Not?
Japanese foundry startup Rapidus secured a ¥631.5 billion ($3.97 billion) government subsidy, part of a broader $16 billion financing plan. The company has opened a chip‑characterization lab and a packaging/chiplet R&D line at its Chitose fab, aiming to ship 2nm gate‑all‑around (GAA) chips...
Adobe’s AI Just Got Promoted
Adobe unveiled its Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that carries creative context across its suite—including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, and After Effects. The assistant introduces AI Markup for point‑and‑click edits and Precision Flow, which lets users generate and refine...
News Alert: NTT Research Launches SaltGrain—Advanced Attribute-Based Encryption Security
NTT Research unveiled Scale Academy, an incubator that will commercialize its lab inventions, and launched its first product, SaltGrain, a zero‑trust data‑security suite built on attribute‑based encryption (ABE). The suite binds access policies to ciphertext, enabling granular control over who...
AI Transforms Workers Comp for Brokers
Workers’ compensation brokers are moving from pure quoting to strategic risk‑advisory roles as employers demand deeper insight into safety and cost control. Surveys show 69% of employers now prefer advisory relationships, while 56% of claims professionals feel overloaded by claim...
(Podcast) Clockwise 652: I Don’t Like the Way That Things Are
The Clockwise 652 podcast dissected four hot tech topics: the high‑priced AirPods Max and whether its audio quality justifies the cost, Backblaze’s quiet move to stop backing up cloud‑synced folders, Amazon’s purchase of Apple’s satellite broadband unit, and the contrasting...
AGI Is Old News
Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, announced in March 2024, only reached consumer‑ready models by late 2025, a roughly twenty‑month lag from keynote to usable intelligence. Early Blackwell‑powered models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos have already sparked emergency meetings among central banks due to...
Introducing OKFN’s AI Learning Labs
Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) announced AI Learning Labs, a new initiative that pairs hands‑on AI experimentation with the creation of public, multilingual AI‑literacy resources for social‑sector organisations. The programme will work with a small cohort of NGOs tackling climate change,...
I'm Artemissing
Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed Orion test flight, splashed down successfully, drawing enthusiastic crowds as it completed a critical step toward lunar return. The author witnessed the splashdown live at an awards gala where retired astronaut Colonel Eileen Collins, the first...
Coordinate Convergence and Calm Complexity
HighByte partnered with Amazon Web Services to give Brazilian glassmaker Vivix Vidros Planos a scalable industrial data‑fabric built on the Intelligence Hub platform. The solution curates, normalizes and contextualizes OT data from PLCs, SQL servers and edge devices before publishing...
You're The Perfect Specimen
The blog post surveys a series of rapid‑changing trends, from GLP‑1 drugs turning into a massive, self‑directed health experiment to political leaders publicly disputing the Pope’s war doctrine. It highlights the cultural backlash against AI‑generated art, the surge of private‑equity...
Practicalities of Co-Locating Tests with Source Code
The article outlines a shift from traditional mirrored test directories to co‑locating unit tests alongside their source files in embedded projects. It highlights the friction of navigating separate test trees and the risk of test drift as codebases evolve. The...
Aevex: Small Drones at Scale
Aevex (AVEX) is preparing a 16‑million‑share offering priced between $18 and $22 per share. The company posted Q1 2026 revenue of $200‑$208 million, a four‑fold year‑over‑year increase, and adjusted EBITDA of $33.5‑$36.4 million, reversing a prior‑year loss. Valuation multiples now sit near 2.6×...
The Workday Conversation Your Renewal Team Isn’t In
Workday completed its $1.1 billion acquisition of Sana in November 2025, expanding its learning‑technology portfolio beyond the corporate arena. While analysts framed the deal as a boost to enterprise workforce training, a deeper threat looms for higher‑education institutions that already rely on...
Five Carriers Got Breached. They Wouldn't Insure Themselves
Over the past year ransomware group Scattered Spider breached five major insurers—Beacon Mutual, Farmers, Erie, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and Aflac—by exploiting help‑desk social engineering, incomplete multi‑factor authentication, and weak endpoint monitoring. Those same control failures are now non‑negotiable requirements in...
Agentic AI Is Removing the Work That Builds Managerial Judgment
Agentic AI systems that can plan and execute multi‑step workflows are now automating the analytical and coordination tasks traditionally performed by junior professionals in consulting, finance, law and tech. Companies such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, IBM, Google and...
98% of Buyers Will Ask About Your AI Agents at Renewal
Okta announced the general availability of its AI Agent solution on April 30, giving enterprises a reference implementation for discovering, governing, and revoking autonomous AI agents. A survey of 150 IT decision makers revealed that 98% will factor agent‑governance controls...
Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution
The White House released a new National Cyber Strategy that structures U.S. cyber policy into six pillars, ranging from offensive capabilities to workforce development. While the document names Russia and China as top adversaries and outlines modernizing steps like zero‑trust...
We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant
Daniel Miessler argues that the future of personal AI converges on a single, unified digital assistant—an AI with a consistent identity, memory, and personality that acts as the sole interface for all tasks. He highlights emerging trends such as OpenAI's...
Why Microsoft’s Carbon Removal Pullback Is Such a Big Deal
Microsoft has been the dominant buyer in the carbon‑removal market, purchasing roughly 72 million tons of CO₂‑negative solutions—over 40 times more than any other organization. This week the tech giant announced a pause on new carbon‑removal contracts, although it says the...
Tesla Intertwines FSD with In-House Insurance for Attractive Incentive
Tesla has linked its Full Self‑Driving (Supervised) suite to its in‑house insurance, launching Safety Score 3.0 that automatically awards a perfect 100 score for every mile driven with FSD enabled. The update removes penalties for brief manual interventions, allowing drivers...
DefenseClaw, MAESTRO, and the Security Boundary Agentic AI Has Been Missing
DefenseClaw is an open‑source security control plane built for the OpenClaw autonomous AI agent. It centralizes asset scanning, AI Bill of Materials generation, policy enforcement, and optional NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxing to protect both supply‑chain and runtime operations. By integrating Cisco...
AI Theater to Trojan Horse: Surviving the AI Adoption Pressure Cooker
Martech teams face mounting pressure to deliver AI strategies as AI spending is projected to explode from $1.4 billion in 2023 to $1.48 trillion by 2025. Gartner warns that at least 30% of generative‑AI pilots will be abandoned after proof‑of‑concept, highlighting a...
New Fire TV Stick HD Announced with the Much-Hated Vega OS — A Downgrade in so Many Ways
Amazon unveiled a new Fire TV Stick HD that runs its proprietary Vega OS, replacing the long‑standing Android‑based HD stick. The device is marketed as the slimmest streaming stick and adds Wi‑Fi 6 and a USB‑C port, but retains the same...
The Blueprint Behind Products Winning in AI
The 2026 Q1 AI & Data Product Awards Guide highlights a shift in top AI products from novelty to operational impact. Winners embed intelligence into core workflows, focus on tangible outcomes like reduced cycle time and cost, and increasingly act...
NTT Scale Academy: Quantum Startup Incubator
NTT Research unveiled Scale Academy, a startup incubator aimed at turning its lab discoveries into market‑ready products. Its first offering, SaltGrain, is a zero‑trust data security suite built on attribute‑based encryption originally proposed by Sahai and Waters. The suite provides...
Perspectives on World Quantum Day 2026: From CEO of D-Wave
D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz says the threshold for commercially viable quantum computing has been crossed, shifting the industry from pure development to real‑world adoption. The company cites its Advantage 2 system solving a problem in minutes that would take a classical...