Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to deliver. The article Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan appeared first on The Decoder .
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also
When people learn I work for The Verge, they inevitably ask: "Do you get to keep the gadgets?" Now that I film Today I'm Toying With, a video series where I share the joy of tech, I get that question more than ever. The answer is no, we don't keep them! Our ethics policy is […]
Say a test starts failing and a developer hands it to a coding agent. It digs into the relevant files, The post When AI agent traces become application data appeared first on The New Stack .
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
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Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. TAKE limits when and why Amazon's cloud can access those videos, while still providing features like smart alerts for […]
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
Flash floods have swept through northern Nepal, killing at least eight people and washing away homes.
Adobe and Nvidia each published several advisories, including ones that address critical vulnerabilities in their products. The post Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
CCTV footage shows people fleeing seconds before a massive mudslide engulfs a crossing on the Nepal-China border.
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks. The clips racked up 130,000 views in two weeks, according to NewsGuard. Even when debunked, these fakes serve their purpose: they erode trust in public information. The article Pro-Kremlin deepfakes put surrender rhetoric in the mouths of Ukrainian lawmakers appeared first on The Decoder .
Agentic reinforcement learning has been suffering from a disconnect, an uncoupling, and a misarticulation. The polarity arises from how a The post Microsoft just released Agent Lightning v1.0. Here’s why it matters for platform engineers. appeared first on The New Stack .
The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather.
Thirty-six teams will learn their fate in a draw for the group phase, which will be followed by knockout rounds.
Flash floods devastate Nepal's Himalayas, washing away villages and infrastructure along the Bhotekoshi river.
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Enterprise owners can now grant a GitHub App access to enterprise billing data. When you create or configure a GitHub App, you can select the enterprise billing permission and choose… The post GitHub Apps can now access enterprise billing data appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." Not long after Rockstar posted, the source of the leaks posted another video clip of the game, this time showing the Jason character pulling off the series' trademark […]
Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose's noise-canceling research is the reason the technology is where it is today, and its headphones set the standard. They were the ubiquitous traveler's accessory. But over the past few years, it's felt like Bose has rested on that reputation, as other companies have caught up. Sony and […]
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
The hospital tells the BBC the ward door was not locked but manned with security guards, to protect the babies.
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed player
A Chinese AI company could land its model on major US cloud platforms for the first time, taking a cut of the revenue. The article Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google appeared first on The Decoder .