: The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it

Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and AI worries among factors driving risks for global disaster.

Software companies cheered the elimination of a government-wide attestation mandate. What comes next could be messy.

People are letting the viral AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot run their lives, regardless of the privacy concerns.

The layoffs mark the second round of mass cuts at Amazon since last October, when the company laid off roughly 14,000 employees across its corporate workforce.

A Nobel Prize-winning pod

CNCF project releases aggregated in one place

Despite my best efforts, I have been wrong a lot over the years. I’ve been wrong about technology patterns (in 2014, I thought microservices would take over the world), I’ve been wrong about management techniques (I used to think systems thinking was the ultimate technique, but I’ve seen so many mistakes rooted in over-reliance on systems thinking), and a bunch of other stuff as well. Early on, I spent a lot of time thinking about how to be wrong less frequently. That’s a noble endeavor, and one I still aim to improve at today. However, a lot of the problems you encounter later in your career are deeply ambiguous, and it simply isn’t possible to eliminate bad outcomes. Some examples of this are:

The funding round could rise if Microsoft and Nvidia decide to contribute, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

Today, we’re announcing that MCP Apps are now live as an official MCP extension. Tools can now return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation: dashboards, forms, visualizations, multi-step workflows, and more. This is the first official MCP extension, and it’s ready for production. We proposed MCP Apps last November, building on the amazing work of MCP-UI and the OpenAI Apps SDK. We were excited to partner with both OpenAI and MCP-UI to create a shared open standard for providing affordances for developers to include UI components in their MCP clients.

Leadership Lessons from Birds That Know When to Lead and When to Adapt

I’ve tested two new laptops powered by Panther Lake—pitting them head-to-head against laptops with Apple Silicon—and Intel has finally scored a much-needed win with the Core Ultra Series 3.

A Sandia Labs paper published in Nature Communications shows how AI is advancing beyond a mere automation tool toward becoming a powerful engine for clear, comprehensible scientific discovery.

Capital One just announced it’s acquiring Brex for $5.15 billion.  An incredible, top 0.1% “exit” in less than 10 years from a category creator that created massive wealth and opportunities. …

The GDP value of AI is smaller than it might appear given that a lot of high-tech equipment is imported, according to a recent MRB Partners report.

Overview of AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC): purpose, ownership, regional structure, security features, gaps, and practical recommendations for Europe.

A tool to generate Kubernetes manifests from templates - Karandash8/make-argocd-fly

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I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library

A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work.

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.

From where the Cloud Native Computing Foundation sits, Kubernetes is no longer experimental but foundational. Soon, it will be essential to AI as well.

By Bohan Zhang, Member of the Technical Staff

Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming some 30,000 corporate workers, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The $500 million Anthropic relationship that reveals what Redmond really thinks about AI coding tools

On status and sacrifice at Big Tech

GPUs are expensive; and yours are probably sitting idle right now. High-end GPUs (for example, NVIDIA A100-class devices) can cost $10,000+, and in a Kubernetes cluster running AI workloads…

This Ambassador Blog was originally published on the writer’s blog and is republished here with permission. In the ever-evolving world of technology, few pairings have sparked as much innovation as…

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL, has had enough of AI slop and is closing down its bug bounty program.